Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Medical News

Medical News


Social cognition impaired in bipolar disorder patients

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Results from a Canadian study show that social cognitive ability is impaired in patients with bipolar disorder.

Social cognition impaired in bipolar disorder patients

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Results from a Canadian study show that social cognitive ability is impaired in patients with bipolar disorder.

Relatives of schizophrenia patients show cortical thinning

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives show significant cortical thinning compared with mentally healthy individuals without such a family history, researchers report.

Relatives of schizophrenia patients show cortical thinning

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives show significant cortical thinning compared with mentally healthy individuals without such a family history, researchers report.

Spotlight on acute respiratory distress syndrome in low-risk surgery

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Postoperative acute respiratory distress syndrome is rare in patients undergoing low-risk surgery, but still carries a very high mortality rate, a large study shows.

Prematurity marks the adult heart

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

People born preterm have compromised cardiac structure and function as young adults, a study shows.

Decreased air pollution continues to increase life expectancy in USA

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Significant reductions in air pollution over the past decade have improved life expectancy across various US counties, report researchers, although they stress that optimum air quality levels have not yet been reached.

African–American rectal cancer patients wait the longest for treatment

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

African–American rectal cancer patients wait longer for treatment and are less likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy than their non-African–American counterparts, results show.

Ancient algae may hold key to treating malaria and related parasites

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Researchers have discovered that parasites of the Apicomplexa taxon, such as Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii, reproduce within host cells using a structure that evolved from a flagellum.

African–American rectal cancer patients wait the longest for treatment

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

African–American rectal cancer patients wait longer for treatment and are less likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy than their non-African–American counterparts, results show.

Decreased air pollution continues to increase life expectancy in USA

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Significant reductions in air pollution over the past decade have improved life expectancy across various US counties, report researchers, although they stress that optimum air quality levels have not yet been reached.

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