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First-episode psychosis readmission risk predicted by DALI tool
Major finding: The Dartmouth Assessment of Lifestyle Inventory (DALI) cannabis/cocaine subscale predicted a 4.5 times greater risk for readmission...
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Negative symptom severity at first-episode psychosis predicts engagement
Major finding: Correlations between Premorbid Adjustment Scale academic and social functioning were statistically significant (P less than or...
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Autistic children spent more time playing video games
Major finding: Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) spent an average of 2 hours per weekday and 3.1 hours per weekend day playing video...
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Prophylactic penicillin reduces leg cellulitis recurrences
Major Finding: In 12 months of prophylaxis, 76 recurrences of cellulitis occurred in the penicillin group and 122 occurred in the placebo group (P...
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Cognitive dysfunction, psychosis respond equally in pediatric SLE
Major finding: Relapse occurred in only 8 of 40 responders to immunosuppressive treatment, and only 15% of psychosis patients and 15% of cognitive...
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Platelet-rich plasma improved tennis elbow pain
Major finding: Injections of platelet-rich plasma for tennis elbow sufferers produced a 71.5% improvement in pain scores, compared with the 56.1%...
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Follow mild, inactive lupus patients every 3-4 months
Major Finding: A total of 25% of SLE patients with mild or inactive disease had at least 1 of 10 disease-related "silent" features during a 2-year...
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New Alzheimer's drug yields modest memory improvements
Major Finding: Patients with moderate Alzheimer’s disease receiving either 30-60 mg or 100-200 mg of trial drug ORM-12741 twice daily saw a 4%...
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Recommendations for gestational diabetes mellitus screening remain unchanged
Major finding: An independent panel assembled for the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus determined...
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Double-jointed teens have high risk for musculoskeletal pain
Major finding: Adolescents deemed to have hypermobile joints had greater odds for having pain 4 years later in the shoulder (OR, 1.68), knee (OR,...
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Health care-associated infections in hospitals continue to decline
Major Finding: Since 2008, central line-associated bloodstream infections in facilities from all 50 states and the District of Columbia have...
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Loss of autism diagnosis and symptoms achievable, with caveats
Major Finding: The ability of children with autism spectrum disorder to lose their diagnosis and their autistic symptoms and achieve performance...
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Cough aerosols flagged most-infectious TB patients
Major Finding: While 69% of the contacts of the tuberculosis patients who produced cough aerosols with at least 10 M. tuberculosis CFUs were at...
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Abatacept proves noninferior to adalimumab for rheumatoid arthritis
Major Finding: Treatment with abatacept resulted in an ACR20 response in 64.8% of patients, with a serious adverse event rate of 10.1%, while...