Mar 19, 2020

The interest in reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) from the scientific community is growing in reaction to the major decline of populations around the world. Studies have highlighted the need to further...

Mar 19, 2020

Increases in acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence may be a result of the rising prevalence of injection-drug use and the opioid epidemic. Amongst persons who inject drugs, sharing of needles/syring...

Mar 19, 2020

In patients at low clinical probability of acute aortic syndromes (AASs), decision on advanced aortic imaging is cumbersome. Integration of the aortic dissection detection risk score (ADD-RS) with D-d...

Mar 19, 2020

The benefit of a perianal block as an adjunct to general or regional anaesthesia is debated. This RCT aimed to compare pain at 24 h and up to 14 days after proctological surgery in patients with a...

Mar 19, 2020

An increasing trend in opioid consumption has been observed worldwide in last decades. However, data related to opioid utilization in hospital settings is scarce. The aim of this study was to determin...

Mar 19, 2020

This study aimed at identifying characteristics of individuals who are most likely to benefit from long-term opioid therapy in terms of reduction in pain severity and improved mental health-related qu...

Mar 19, 2020

Opioid use by pregnant women is an understudied consequence associated with the opioid epidemic, resulting in a rise in the incidence of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) and lifelong neurobe...

Mar 19, 2020

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established treatment for chronic neuropathic, neuropathic-like and ischaemic pain. However, the heterogeneity of patients in daily clinical practice makes it often...

Mar 19, 2020

Managing hemophilia is challenging both in terms of medical treatment and its broad impact on many aspects of the individual's life, including self-perception. Several psychosocial issues are potentia...

Mar 19, 2020

Poor sleep is one of the most frequent health concerns among menopausal women. All stages of sleep can be impacted by the menopause transition. Negative outcomes of poor sleep are multidimensional and...

Mar 19, 2020

THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Poor sleep quality is associated with increased food intake and a lower-quality diet among women, according to a study published in the Feb. 18 issue of th...

Mar 16, 2020

MONDAY, March 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many parents are not having talks with their preschool or school-age children about inappropriate touching, according to a new C.S. Mott Children's Hospital ...

Mar 16, 2020

MONDAY, March 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many people are changing their behaviors in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new survey conducted by researchers at the Center for Economic and...

Mar 16, 2020

MONDAY, March 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There is an association between low maternal vitamin D during early pregnancy and an elevated risk for offspring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD...

Mar 13, 2020

Deficits in social cognition are common in people with psychotic disorders and negatively impact functioning. Social Cognition Training (SCT) has been found to improve social cognition and functioning...

Mar 13, 2020

Motor abnormalities in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) have increasingly attracted scientific interest in the past years. However, the neural mechanisms underlying parkinsonism in SSD are uncle...

Mar 13, 2020

Iloperidone (ILO) is an anti-psychotic, used in schizophrenia. It has low bioavailability (36%) due to low solubility and first pass effect. Oral solid self microemulsifying drug delivery system (SMED...

Mar 13, 2020

Theory of mind (ToM) impairments are well documented in schizophrenia, although it remains unclear whether these deficits exist among individuals with schizotypy. The current study sought to shed ligh...

Mar 13, 2020

Social withdrawal in the sub-chronic phencyclidine (PCP) rat model, a behavioral correlate of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, results from deficits in brain endocannabinoid transmission. As ca...

Mar 13, 2020

Alanine-serine-cysteine transporter 2 (ASCT2), a major glutamine transporter, is essential for cell growth and tumor development in a variety of cancers. However, the clinicopathological significance ...