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• CBT improves dysfunctional attitudes, memory in bipolar disorder
• Gene fusion reduces NSCLC patient survival
• CBT improves dysfunctional attitudes, memory in bipolar disorder
• Sit-to-stand test predicts 2-year COPD mortality
• Cardiac abnormalities ‘highly prevalent’ after first severe COPD exacerbation
• Obesity linked to poor asthma control in boys
• Asthma costs and readmissions similar for primary, secondary care
• Slower cognitive response times in adolescents at risk for bipolar disorder
• Study sheds doubt on Blalock Taussig shunts for infants
• Unhealthy behaviors in adolescents prompt heart disease fears
• Gastric acid treatment raises C.difficile
• GPs' referral wording can speed up childhood cancer diagnosis
• Frailty approach provides clue to schizophrenia etiology
• Slower cognitive response times in adolescents at risk for bipolar disorder
• Tobacco smoke increases AIM expression in alveolar macrophages
• Frailty approach provides clue to schizophrenia etiology
• CLUE to emergency antihypertensive approach for end-organ damage
• Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A as a predictor for CV events
• Colonoscopy bowel preparation improved by telephone-based re-education
• Human-to-human spread of multidrug resistant mycobacteria confirmed
• UK clinicians show little support for controlling ‘fertility tourism’
• Air pollution increases neural tube defect risk for unborn babies
• Marital status affects place of cancer death
• Reduced function in prostate cancer patients receiving radiotherapy
• Air pollution increases neural tube defect risk for unborn babies
• Duloxetine effective for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

CBT improves dysfunctional attitudes, memory in bipolar disorder Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Cognitive behavioural therapy improves dysfunctional attitudes and is associated with a reduction in residual symptoms in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder, results from a French study show.

Gene fusion reduces NSCLC patient survival Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT ROS1 fusions predict a poor outcome in Chinese patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, study findings suggest.

CBT improves dysfunctional attitudes, memory in bipolar disorder Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Cognitive behavioural therapy improves dysfunctional attitudes and is associated with a reduction in residual symptoms in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder, results from a French study show.

Sit-to-stand test predicts 2-year COPD mortality Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT The sit-to-stand test can predict 2-year mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, say researchers.

Cardiac abnormalities ‘highly prevalent’ after first severe COPD exacerbation Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Results from a Spanish study show that cardiac abnormalities are common among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients who have experienced their first severe exacerbation.

Obesity linked to poor asthma control in boys Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Boys who are obese are more likely to have poor asthma control than their normal-weight peers, study results show.

Asthma costs and readmissions similar for primary, secondary care Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT There is a similar rate of readmission to hospital after an asthma attack regardless of the clinical setting in which patients are followed up, results of a Canadian study show.

Slower cognitive response times in adolescents at risk for bipolar disorder Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Adolescents with a familial risk for bipolar disorder have slower cognitive response times overall and have greater variability in those times than adolescents without such a family history, say researchers.

Study sheds doubt on Blalock Taussig shunts for infants Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Use of a modified Blalock Taussig shunt for the treatment of biventricular and univentricular infant hearts is associated with significant mortality and morbidity, indicate Swiss study results.

Unhealthy behaviors in adolescents prompt heart disease fears Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Unhealthy behaviors in teenagers may result in a significant increase in cardiovascular diseases in the future, suggest researchers.

Gastric acid treatment raises C.difficile Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT People taking histamine 2 receptor antagonists have a nearly 50% increased risk for developing Clostridium difficile infection, report researchers.

GPs' referral wording can speed up childhood cancer diagnosis Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT The wording of a general practitioner's referral letter to the consultant has a significant impact on the time to diagnosis for pediatric cancer patients, Danish research shows.

Frailty approach provides clue to schizophrenia etiology Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Researchers have applied a frailty model to schizophrenia and identified patterns of susceptibility for the disorder as well as ages at diagnosis for which certain early risk factors are of importance.

Slower cognitive response times in adolescents at risk for bipolar disorder Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Adolescents with a familial risk for bipolar disorder have slower cognitive response times overall and have greater variability in those times than adolescents without such a family history, say researchers.

Tobacco smoke increases AIM expression in alveolar macrophages Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Results from a Japanese study suggest that apoptosis inhibitor of macrophage expression in conjunction with smoking is associated with the increased accumulation of alveolar macrophages in the lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Frailty approach provides clue to schizophrenia etiology Posted: 03 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Researchers have applied a frailty model to schizophrenia and identified patterns of susceptibility for the disorder as well as ages at diagnosis for which certain early risk factors are of importance.

CLUE to emergency antihypertensive approach for end-organ damage Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Patients admitted to the emergency department with hypertension and suspected end-organ damage reach target systolic blood pressure faster with a nicardipine infusion than a labetalol bolus, research suggests.

Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A as a predictor for CV events Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Levels of pregnancy-associated plasma protein A may predict risk for a cardiovascular event among individuals presenting with cardiac chest pain, researchers find.

Colonoscopy bowel preparation improved by telephone-based re-education Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Bowel preparation quality improves in patients who are given telephone-based re-education the day before their colonoscopy, research shows.

Human-to-human spread of multidrug resistant mycobacteria confirmed Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Findings from an investigation into an outbreak of the non-tuberculosis mycobacterium Mycobacterium abscessus in a cystic fibrosis center show that human-to-human transmission of the pathogen can occur.

UK clinicians show little support for controlling ‘fertility tourism’ Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Research shows there is little support among health professionals in the UK for legal controls on cross-border fertility treatment.

Air pollution increases neural tube defect risk for unborn babies Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT A high level of exposure to air pollution in early pregnancy significantly increases the risk for congenital birth defects, suggest US study findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Marital status affects place of cancer death Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Having a hematologic cancer or being single, widowed, or divorced, reduces cancer patients' chances for dying at home or in a hospice, study findings show.

Reduced function in prostate cancer patients receiving radiotherapy Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Men treated with a combination of intensity-modulated radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy for locally advanced prostate cancer suffer from long-term reductions in urinary, bowel, and sexual function, show study findings.

Air pollution increases neural tube defect risk for unborn babies Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT A high level of exposure to air pollution in early pregnancy significantly increases the risk for congenital birth defects, suggest US study findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Duloxetine effective for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT Duloxetine offers significant relief from painful peripheral neuropathy in patients undergoing chemotherapy, results of a placebo-controlled trial indicate.

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