Monday, January 14, 2013

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Depression, mania in BD I have differential social adjustment effects

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Results from a UK study show that depression and mania symptoms have specific and differential effects on social adjustment in patients with bipolar disorder.

Cannabis use may worsen illness course in bipolar disorder

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Cannabis use disorder is associated with a more severe illness course among patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report.

Depression, mania in BD I have differential social adjustment effects

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Results from a UK study show that depression and mania symptoms have specific and differential effects on social adjustment in patients with bipolar disorder.

Cannabis use may worsen illness course in bipolar disorder

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Cannabis use disorder is associated with a more severe illness course among patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report.

Research scrambles previous findings on health impact of eggs

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Increased egg consumption is not associated with a higher risk for coronary heart disease or stroke in the general population, research suggests.

Research scrambles previous findings on health impact of eggs

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Increased egg consumption is not associated with a higher risk for coronary heart disease or stroke in the general population, research suggests.

Donor liver wastage on the increase

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

US researchers have found that the expansion of liver transplantation criteria to include post-cardiac death donors is associated with an increase in the proportion of unused donor livers.

Sequencing-based test effectively detects many fetal genetic defects

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Researchers have developed a new screening test that allows detection of fetal abnormalities in maternal blood by deep sequencing cell-free DNA extracted from plasma.

Targeted prostate biopsies skew proportion of high-risk cases

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Image-targeted biopsy of the prostate leads to a substantial increase in the proportion of prostate cores identified as high risk compared with standard transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy, the results of a UK study indicate.

Beta blocker use linked to NSCLC patient survival

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Beta blockers may boost survival in patients undergoing definitive radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer, suggests research published in the Annals of Oncology.

Aggressive surveillance questionable for eye melanoma recurrence

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Patients treated for primary choroidal or ciliary body melanoma may not always benefit from an aggressive surveillance strategy for the detection of metastatic disease, caution US researchers.

Cognitive deficits in adolescents persist for months following concussion

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Cognitive deficits in adolescents occurring as a result of sports-related concussions can last for as long as 2 months after injury, say researchers.

Research scrambles previous findings on health impact of eggs

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Increased egg consumption is not associated with a higher risk for coronary heart disease or stroke in the general population, research suggests.

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