By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Research shows that patients with bipolar I disorder have reduced white matter integrity, including in the corpus callosum, which connects the brain's hemispheres. Furthermore, reduced ...
Tags: Interhemispheric, Bipolar Disorder
By Afsaneh Gray, medwireNews Reporter A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from ...
Tags: Intervention, Disengagement, negative symptom, schizoaffective disorder
By Afsaneh Gray, medwireNews Reporter A study of first-episode psychosis patients in Hong Kong has found that those with fewer negative symptoms at presentation and poor medication compliance were more likely than others to disengage from ...
Tags: Intervention, Disengagement, negative symptom, schizoaffective disorder
By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter Elderly kidney cancer patients benefit from sunitinib therapy just as much as their younger counterparts, a retrospective analysis of six clinical trials shows. Median progression-free survival ...
Tags: PFS, mRCC, Advanced Age, IFN
By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter mewireNews: Shortening the time that patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma are on and off treatment with sunitinib improves the drug’s overall tolerability without affecting its efficacy, ...
Tags: ORR, Tolerability, PFS, Sunitinib
Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, announced the availability of Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the company's new application that helps link vital areas of ...
Tags: Fashion PLM, Textile
The Dixie Group reported financial results for the year ended Dec. 28, 2013. For the year of 2013, the company had sales of $345,066,000 and income from continuing operations of $5,358,000, or $0.40 per diluted share, compared with sales of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Electrical, Electronics
Etoposide plus cisplatin, given alongside accelerated hyperfractionated thoracic radiotherapy (AHTRT), remains the gold standard regimen for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), Japanese researchers say. The phase ...
Patients with depression have areas of reduced cortical thickness, with clear distinctions between those with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD), report US researchers. "Cortical thickness may prove to be a useful tool ...
By Lynda Williams, Senior medwireNews Reporter Research shows that the severity of gout, rather than uric acid level, is significantly associated with changes in left ventricular (LV) diastolic function and left atrial volume (LAV). The ...
By Lucy Piper, Senior medwireNews Reporter Patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased use of maladaptive and decreased use of adaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies, researchers report. ...
Tags: emotion regulation, Larissa Wolkenstein, University of Tübingen
Researchers from Sweden say that women who have been treated for cervical precancer should receive lifelong follow-up, after finding that their risk for dying from vaginal or cervical cancer markedly increases after the age of 60 years. ...
Tags: Bjrn Strander, CIN3, Sweden, Marc Arbyn
By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter An RNA sequencing study of patients with bipolar disorder has shown altered expression of genes and transcripts, including those involved in neuroplasticity and circadian rhythms. Nirmala ...
Yesterday Harrison Spinks – the luxury bed manufacturer which hand tailors mattresses under the Harrison, Somnus and Spink & Edgar brands – was visited by the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg. The purpose of the visit was to ...
Tags: Harrison Spinks, Nick Clegg, Regional Growth Fund, bed manufacturer
Cardiovascular comorbidities may be going under-recognized and undertreated in patients with bipolar disorder, say UK researchers. This is despite the UK having a healthcare system that is free at the point of access, they note. "This ...