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Cardiometabolic risk high for schizophrenia patients

The risk for abdominal obesity may be increased as much as fourfold for patients with multi-episode schizophrenia compared with the rest of the population, reveal findings from a meta-analysis.

17 Oct 2013

Inducing asthma control key to long-term outcomes

Patients with uncontrolled asthma should receive intensive management and follow-up, say researchers who found that good asthma control at one point in time is associated with increased likelihood for control over the subsequent year.

17 Oct 2013

Manic episodes worsen clinical insight

Patients with bipolar disorder are more likely to have impaired clinical insight after, rather than before, manic exacerbations, researchers report.

17 Oct 2013

Clinical attention improves QoL in COPD

A study in the primary care setting shows that clinical factors have the greatest influence on improving health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

17 Oct 2013

Mixed state impedes remission in bipolar depression

Researchers highlight the importance of identifying sub-syndromal manic symptoms in patients experiencing an episode of bipolar depression after finding these less prominent symptoms lengthen the time to remission.

17 Oct 2013

Psychotic symptoms alone denote medical health risk

People with symptoms of psychosis have an increased rate of medical comorbidities and unhealthy lifestyle habits even if they do not have a psychiatric diagnosis, shows a worldwide study.

17 Oct 2013

Blood-Based Protein Test May Distinguish Between Malignant And Benign Lung Nodules

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17 Oct 2013

Celmatix presents six research findings at ASRM's annual meeting

Celmatix, a biotechnology company focused on helping physicians guide patients to treatments that maximize their personal reproductive potential, announced today six research presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, being held October 12-17 in Boston.

17 Oct 2013

AmpliPhi, University of Leicester partner to develop novel bacteriophage therapy against C. difficile

AmpliPhi BioSciences Corporation, the leader in the development of bacteriophage-based antibacterial therapies to treat antibiotic resistant infections, announces it has entered into Collaboration and License Agreements with UK-based University of Leicester to develop a novel bacteriophage therapy targeting Clostridium difficile, a serious gastrointestinal infection for which new treatments are urgently required.

17 Oct 2013

Researchers study link between different room types in NICU and developmental outcomes of infants

Medical technology has improved the survival rates of premature infants, but adverse developmental outcomes are a continuing problem. Researchers have turned their attention to the neonatal intensive care unit, where premature infants spend their first few weeks or months, for potential answers.

17 Oct 2013

Neurons strengthen their synapses to remain active after loss of input

The brain is an extremely adaptable organ - but it is also quite conservative. That's in short, what scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried and their colleagues from the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel and the Ruhr-Universit-t Bochum were now able to show.

17 Oct 2013

Proteins in CSF predict cognitive impairment before onset of disease

Johns Hopkins researchers say that by measuring levels of certain proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), they can predict when people will develop the cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease years before the first symptoms of memory loss appear.

17 Oct 2013

Ultrasound prior to thyroidectomy important for planning surgery

Ultrasound imaging is commonly used to diagnose and evaluate patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, and to determine whether the disease has spread to lymph nodes in the neck that should be removed at the time of thyroidectomy.

17 Oct 2013

Review article looks at recent research about insomnia among American soldiers

Various behavioral treatment options are helping to treat the sleeplessness experienced by one in every two American soldiers who have been deployed in recent military operations. So says Dr. Adam Bramoweth of the Department of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, and Dr. Anne Germain of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US.

17 Oct 2013

Good news: Knowing risk early, women can take action to prevent osteoporosis

On World Osteoporosis Day, October 20, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is calling for women to take action now to protect their bone health. Broken bones due to osteoporosis often result in pain, immobility and loss of quality of life as well as early death.

17 Oct 2013

High long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content may lower risk of brain abnormalities

According to a new study, high long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content in blood may lower the risk of small brain infarcts and other brain abnormalities in the elderly.

17 Oct 2013

NIH funding helps develop chronic-pain network to accelerate research, treatments

What do migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis have in common? All involve chronic pain.

17 Oct 2013

Detecting dangerous blood clots in the form of simple urine test

Detecting dangerous blood clots, which can cause life-threatening conditions such as strokes and heart attacks, leading causes of death for men and women in the U.S., has been a coveted and elusive goal.

17 Oct 2013

King's College researchers identify new biomarker that detects sepsis in blood

Researchers at King's College London have identified a biomarker - a biological 'fingerprint' - for sepsis in the blood, and showed it could be possible to diagnose the condition within two hours by screening for this biomarker at a patient's bedside.

17 Oct 2013

Common practice of using BMI to prioritize bariatric surgery patients needs to change: Research

Most people who receive bariatric surgery in Canada, and around the world, are obese women, even though their male counterparts are more at risk, especially if those men are smokers and have diabetes. These findings are demonstrated in newly published medical research from the University of Alberta

17 Oct 2013