Monday, January 28, 2013

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Medical News


Childhood adversity raises comorbidity risk in bipolar disorder

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Childhood adversity, including verbal, physical, or sexual abuse, is associated with the later development of multiple medical comorbidities in patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report.

Gesture imitation impaired in schizophrenia patients

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Schizophrenia patients have impaired gesture imitation, especially when the imitation depends on working memory and involves multiple actions, show study results.

Childhood adversity raises comorbidity risk in bipolar disorder

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Childhood adversity, including verbal, physical, or sexual abuse, is associated with the later development of multiple medical comorbidities in patients with bipolar disorder, researchers report.

Gesture imitation impaired in schizophrenia patients

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Schizophrenia patients have impaired gesture imitation, especially when the imitation depends on working memory and involves multiple actions, show study results.

Cancer risk independent of folic acid supplementation

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Folic acid supplementation does not increase or decrease the risk for cancer, suggests research published in The Lancet.

Shorter surveillance intervals detect HCC earlier

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in at-risk patients at intervals of less than 6 months picks up smaller tumors compared with longer intervals, show two recently published studies.

Cancer risk independent of folic acid supplementation

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Folic acid supplementation does not increase or decrease the risk for cancer, suggests research published in The Lancet.

Rotavirus vaccination in children impacts on adults

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Vaccinating children against rotavirus should be encouraged, say researchers, following findings that the prevalence of the disease has recently halved among unvaccinated adults in the USA.

European radiotherapy provision has ‘significant shortfalls’

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

A review published in The Lancet Oncology reveals significant shortfalls in radiotherapy equipment and manpower across Europe.

Shorter surveillance intervals detect HCC earlier

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in at-risk patients at intervals of less than 6 months picks up smaller tumors compared with longer intervals, show two recently published studies.

Five genes hold key to meningioma make up

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Research published in Science shows that mutations in five genes characterize most meningiomas.

Cancer risk independent of folic acid supplementation

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Folic acid supplementation does not increase or decrease the risk for cancer, suggests research published in The Lancet.

Urinary incontinence risk tool helps guide radical prostatectomy patients

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Researchers have developed a multivariable risk classification tool for estimating patients' risk for urinary incontinence after undergoing radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

Asthma linked to atopic dermatitis persistence

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Asthma is associated with rash persistence in children with atopic dermatitis, US researchers report.

Urinary incontinence risk tool helps guide radical prostatectomy patients

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Researchers have developed a multivariable risk classification tool for estimating patients' risk for urinary incontinence after undergoing radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

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