Feb 13, 2020

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are of increasing importance in clinical medicine. However, their evaluation by classic psychometric methods carries considerable limitations. The clinimetric approach...

Feb 13, 2020

To investigate the effect of 3 regimes on pain and wound healing after corneal crosslinking (CXL).Tertiary academic referral center, Utrecht, the Netherlands.Prospective cohort study.Consecutive progr...

Feb 13, 2020

We examined how specific cognitive behavioral impairments impacted quality of life (QoL) within a large multicenter cohort of 7-10 year olds surviving extremely preterm (EPT) without major neurodevelo...

Feb 13, 2020

Indole tryptophan metabolites (ITMs), mainly produced at the gastrointestinal level, participate in bidirectional gut-brain communication and have been implicated in neuropsychiatric pathologies, inc...

Feb 13, 2020

In Brazil, species of the genus Ramphocelus with the presence of various endoparasites have already been reported. Coccidia have been the parasites most frequently found. All species of this genus hav...

Feb 13, 2020

The prevalence and incidence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have increased substantially among children and adolescents over the past decade; however, little is known regarding tre...

Feb 13, 2020

Dissolution loss is the biggest issue for the organic electrode material, and nowadays the most popular strategy is to synthesize polymer or add much conductive carbon. In this paper, the issue is wel...

Feb 13, 2020

Exploiting simple types of symmetry common to many natural protein oligomers as a starting point, several recent studies have succeeded in engineering complex self-assembling protein architectures rem...

Feb 13, 2020

To determine the patterns of concomitant drug use for chronic diseases and examine the risk factors of polypharmacy in older outpatients.Data were extracted from an anonymized health insurance claims ...

Feb 13, 2020

A common hallmark of age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases is an impairment of adult neurogenesis. Wingless-type mouse mammary tumor virus integration site (Wnt)/β-catenin (WβC) signalling is a v...

Feb 13, 2020

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder in which epigenetic mechanisms may contribute to illness risk. Epigenetic profiles can be derived from blood cells, but to our knowledge, it is unknown whethe...

Feb 13, 2020

Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Here we discuss seve...

Feb 13, 2020

Maintaining phosphorus balance in in-center hemodialysis (ICHD) patients is problematic despite recommended dietary restriction, dialysis, and phosphate binder use. Rarely is P content in prescribed m...

Feb 13, 2020

Naltrexone and nalmefene are approved for the treatment of alcohol use disorders, in different countries. Naltrexone is also approved for the treatment for opioid use disorders, most recently in a dep...

Feb 13, 2020

Medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) are the most effective treatment for OUD, but uptake of these life-saving medications has been extremely limited in US prisons and jail settings, and limited ...

Feb 13, 2020

Long-term engagement in opioid agonist therapy (OAT) has been consistently associated with reduced risk for morbidity and mortality in people with opioid use disorder (OUD). However, the dynamic natur...

Feb 13, 2020

Sleep complaints are common among older adults with chronic pain. Because of the risk of significant side effects, sleep medications are not recommended as first-line treatments. Little is known about...

Feb 13, 2020

THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Sedentary behavior throughout adolescence is associated with the risk for depressive symptoms at age 18 years, according to a study published online Feb. 11...

Feb 12, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of heroin use, heroin use disorder, and heroin injection increased from 2002 to 2018, according to a research letter published in the Feb. 1...

Feb 11, 2020

TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Racial differences in pain may be rooted in life experience, rather than intrinsic biology, according to a study published online Feb. 3 in Nature Human Beha...