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Conservative treatment throws baseball best playing chance

For baseball players with superior labral tears, conservative shoulder treatment may offer a better chance of returning to play than surgery, say US researchers.

13 Jul 2012

Axial length may affect macular disease evaluation

Korean researchers report that thinner macular retinal thickness, lower macular volume, and greater foveal thickness are associated with longer axial length in young individuals with myopic eyes.

13 Jul 2012

Patient interaction with medical record boosts prevention service use

The use of patient-centered interactive health records can improve the delivery and uptake of preventive services, including cancer screening and vaccinations, show the results of a US study.

13 Jul 2012

Antipsychotic use in pregnancy should be closely monitored

Use of any type of antipsychotic during pregnancy increases the risk for women developing gestational diabetes, show Swedish study results that also indicate a link between antipsychotics and a risk for giving birth to a small for gestational age infant.

13 Jul 2012

More reason to restrict hormone therapy during menopause

Researchers have found further evidence to show that menopausal hormone therapy increases the risk for high blood pressure in postmenopausal women.

13 Jul 2012

Infants with food allergies exhibit high rate of reactions over time

Infants with documented or likely milk or egg allergies experience a high number of reactions caused by accidental and nonaccidental exposure, results of a three-year observational study demonstrate.

13 Jul 2012

New diabetes guidance ups prevention game

Identifying people who are at risk for Type 2 diabetes should become “a focus for everybody,” say new UK guidelines.

13 Jul 2012

Identification of IL-9 antitumor activity in melanoma

High expression of interleukin -9 in immune cells inhibits growth of melanoma, show study findings suggesting a role for this T-cell cytokine in tumor suppression.

13 Jul 2012

Treatment-resistant insomnia exacerbates major depression

Reports from a case series study indicate that patients with major depression have high rates of treatment-resistant, residual insomnia, and that insomnia during the early remission phase could lead to recurrence of depressive episodes.

13 Jul 2012

Key risk features predictive for suicide in bipolar disorder identified

Study findings suggest that patients with bipolar disorder who present with mixed-states, melancholic depressive features, or have multiple antidepressant treatment episodes are at increased risk for suicide.

13 Jul 2012

Adding functional skills training to CRT improves schizophrenia functioning

Adding functional skills training to cognitive remediation therapy significantly improves functional competence and real-world behavior in patients with schizophrenia, show study findings.

13 Jul 2012

Cranberry benefits not an old wives’ tale

Consuming cranberry products can reduce the risk for urinary tract infections, particularly in women, a meta-analysis shows.

13 Jul 2012

Incident HF an ‘extreme high-risk’ condition

Patients have a markedly increased risk for stroke and death in the month following a new heart failure diagnosis, say researchers.

13 Jul 2012

Femoral Acetabular Impingement may contribute to groin pain in athletes

A sports hernia is a common cause of groin pain in athletes, however until lately little has been known as to why they occur. Researchers presenting their study today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Baltimore suggest that a type of hip condition (Femoral Acetabular Impingement (FAI) might be a contributing cause.

13 Jul 2012

Negative suggestion can induce symptoms of illness

Negative suggestion can induce symptoms of illness. Nocebo effects are the adverse events that occur during sham treatment and/or as a result of negative expectations. While the positive counterpart—the placebo effect—has been intensively studied in recent years, the scientific literature contains few studies on nocebo phenomena.

13 Jul 2012

NICE: GPs must target diabetes prevention

Guidance for the prevention of type 2 diabetes out today from NICE urges GPs to step up efforts to get high-risk patients onto lifestyle intervention programmes. As trailed at the end of last year, the guidance recommends that GPs run checks on their practice register using a validated computerised diabetes risk tool and invite those falling into high-risk groups for a proper risk assessment, in line with the NHS Health Check programme.

12 Jul 2012

Early surgery best for infective endocarditis

Compared with conventional treatment, early surgery for patients with infective endocarditis and large vegetations significantly reduces the risk for death or embolic events by reducing the risk for systemic embolism, show results from a randomized trial.

12 Jul 2012