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Non-social cognitive deficits outweigh social ones in bipolar disorder

Patients with bipolar disorder have relatively greater impairments in non-social cognition than social cognition, whereas the opposite is true for patients with schizophrenia, researchers report.

6 Mar 2013

Foreign-born adoptees most at risk for psychiatric disorders

Foreign-born adoptees have the highest rates of psychiatric disorders among migrants, show the results of a large, Danish population-based cohort study.

6 Mar 2013

Antibiotic prophylaxis after IVT may be harmful

Researchers are warning against routine antibiotic prophylaxis with intravitreal injection after finding that the practice can increase the antibiotic resistance of ocular surface flora.

6 Mar 2013

Pain self-management and exercise ‘effective in elderly’

Techniques for the self-management of chronic pain based on cognitive behavioral therapy significantly reduce disability, suggest results from a randomized controlled trial in older adults.

6 Mar 2013

Lactated Ringer’s safety caution in cardiac arrest

Prehospital intravenous loading with lactated Ringer’s solution may reduce the chances for survival with good neurologic outcome among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, an observational study suggests.

6 Mar 2013

UK’s health performance declining compared with 14 EU countries over past 20 years

Six decades of universal free health care, the introduction of widespread public health initiatives (eg, tobacco control, cancer screening, and immunisation), and substantial increases in health expenditure have failed to improve the UK’s health outcomes or longevity ranking against the average of 14 other original members of the European Union, Australia, Canada, Norway, and the USA (EU15+) over the past 20 years.

6 Mar 2013

Air pollution and heart attacks: an interview with Dr Cathryn Tonne, LSHTM

Air is polluted when it contains any extraneous entity in sufficient quantities to adversely affect the environment or the health of people exposed to it.

6 Mar 2013

Global Blood Therapeutics, Array BioPharma partner for drug discovery research

Array BioPharma Inc. and Global Blood Therapeutics today announced a multi-target drug discovery collaboration agreement to identify small molecule lead compounds targeting chronic blood-based diseases.

6 Mar 2013

Marriage may not always be as beneficial to health as experts have led us to believe

Marriage may not always be as beneficial to health as experts have led us to believe, according to a new study.

6 Mar 2013

Study: Obese people need to lose weight earlier in order to reduce risk of heart disease later

In a study of the impact of weight loss on reversing heart damage from obesity, Johns Hopkins researchers found that poor heart function in young obese mice can be reversed when the animals lose weight from a low-calorie diet.

6 Mar 2013

Researchers look at how parental coping and religious behaviors influence drinking outcomes

Religious college students report less alcohol use than their classmates - and the reason may have to do with how their parents handle stress, according to new research by a Michigan State University scholar.

6 Mar 2013

Visceral fat directly linked to increased risk for colon cancer, study reveals

Visceral fat, or fat stored deep in the abdominal cavity, is directly linked to an increased risk for colon cancer, according to data from a mouse study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

6 Mar 2013

Scientists report successful blocking of tumor development in genetic mouse model of human cancer

UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists report the first successful blocking of tumor development in a genetic mouse model of an incurable human cancer.

6 Mar 2013

Study shows community-based HIV-prevention efforts increase testing rates, reduce HIV incidence

In Africa and Thailand, communities that worked together on HIV-prevention efforts saw not only a rise in HIV screening but a drop in new infections, according to a new study presented this week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.

6 Mar 2013

New research findings could lead to development of effective therapies for anxiety disorders

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have, for the first time, identified a specific group of cells in the brainstem whose activation during rapid eye movement sleep is critical for the regulation of emotional memory processing.

6 Mar 2013

European scientists find root cause of age-related dementia

A team of European scientists from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases at the University of Cologne in Germany has taken an important step closer to understanding the root cause of age-related dementia.

6 Mar 2013

University of Manchester leads systems medicine research network for inflammatory bowel disease

The University of Manchester is leading a €12 million systems medicine research network to identify better treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease like Crohn's Disease.

6 Mar 2013

Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine celebrates two important milestones

Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine celebrates two important milestones: the renewal of the partnership agreement for an extended period of 10 years, and the expansion of the Nordic EMBL network with the official opening of the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE) at Aarhus University, which will become its Danish node.

6 Mar 2013

Heed the fire triangle for safe electrocautery

Most fires in the operating room are caused by electrocautery, according to a US review of surgical malpractice claims.

5 Mar 2013

Quitting cannabis may not alleviate psychosis

The amount of cannabis used does not appear to be associated with the severity of symptoms in patients with established psychosis, although the drug is linked to a small effect on psychosocial functioning, say UK scientists.

5 Mar 2013

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Non-social cognitive deficits outweigh social ones in bipolar disorder

Foreign-born adoptees most at risk for psychiatric disorders

Antibiotic prophylaxis after IVT may be harmful

Pain self-management and exercise ‘effective in elderly’

Lactated Ringer’s safety caution in cardiac arrest

UK’s health performance declining compared with 14 EU countries over past 20 years

Air pollution and heart attacks: an interview with Dr Cathryn Tonne, LSHTM

Global Blood Therapeutics, Array BioPharma partner for drug discovery research

Marriage may not always be as beneficial to health as experts have led us to believe

Study: Obese people need to lose weight earlier in order to reduce risk of heart disease later

Researchers look at how parental coping and religious behaviors influence drinking outcomes

Visceral fat directly linked to increased risk for colon cancer, study reveals

Scientists report successful blocking of tumor development in genetic mouse model of human cancer

Study shows community-based HIV-prevention efforts increase testing rates, reduce HIV incidence

New research findings could lead to development of effective therapies for anxiety disorders

European scientists find root cause of age-related dementia

University of Manchester leads systems medicine research network for inflammatory bowel disease

Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine celebrates two important milestones

Heed the fire triangle for safe electrocautery

Quitting cannabis may not alleviate psychosis

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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