Medicine NewsIn 2007-2008, there were more than 52,000 admissions to mental health beds in Ontario, and new data show that the vast majority of these showed improvements during their hospital stay. For example, the analysis found that 83% of people hospitalized for mental illness were showing signs of depression at the time of their admission. Of [...]
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ABILIFY® (aripiprazole), when used in combination with lithium or valproate, is a generally well-tolerated long-term treatment for patients with Bipolar I Disorder, who are partially non-responsive to lithium or valproate monotherapy.1 The data presented today at the annual congress for the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) report a favourable long-term safety profile for ABILIFY in [...]
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Michael Avidan, George Mashour and David Glick highlight the serious issue of awareness during anaesthesia in a recent review published by F1000 Medicine Reports. Consciousness during general anaesthesia is an extremely distressing condition leading to post-operative psychological trauma and contributes towards patients’ fear of surgery.
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On the occasion of World Autism Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reaffirmed its commitment to provide technical assistance to member states to deliver integrated health services to people with autism and other mental and developmental disorders of childhood.
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AP – State regulators on Friday temporarily suspended the medical license of a doctor who health officials suspect is linked to a hepatitis B outbreak.
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AP – Kraft Foods Inc., the company whose testing led to the nationwide pistachio recall, said Friday it first heard there was salmonella in its trail mix in late 2007, but could not trace the possible source to tainted nuts from California until two weeks ago.
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Cancerous tumors on the kidney once meant surgery to remove the kidney. Now, doctors at Tulane University are performing cutting-edge treatments designed to preserve as much of a patient’s healthy kidney tissue as possible. Robotic partial nephrectomy is a procedure in which the surgeon utilizes a surgical robot to remove diseased tissue [...]
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Preliminary research examining the difference in brain activity between soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and those without it moves scientists a step closer to the possibility of being able one day to use brain scans to help diagnose the condition. The search for the footprints left in the brain by psychiatric disorders [...]
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