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Enhanced Recovery after Surgery for Cesarean Delivery Decreases Length of Hospital Stay and Opioid Consumption: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Jun 04, 2020

 The aim of this study is to assess the effect of a resident-led enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol for scheduled prelabor cesarean deliveries on hospital length of stay and postpartum ...

Pandemic Presents New Hurdles, And Hope, For People Struggling With Addiction

Jun 04, 2020

Before Philadelphia shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Ed had a routine: most mornings he would head to a nearby McDonald’s to brush his teeth, wash his face and — when he had th...

How Much Do We Know about the Biopsychosocial Predictors of Glycaemic Control? Age and Clinical Factors Predict Glycaemic Control, but Psychological Factors Do Not.

May 28, 2020

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common noncommunicable diseases in Malaysia. It is associated with significant complications and a high cost of treatment, especially when glycaemic control is poo...

Surveying sleep quality and fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients at a multiple sclerosis center in Kermanshah, Iran, in 2017.

May 28, 2020

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system which appears with de-myelination of the central nervous system. Sleep disorder and fatigue are very common in MS patients and ar...

Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to map the cortical representation of lower-limb muscles.

May 28, 2020

To evaluate the extent to which transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can identify discrete cortical representation of lower-limb muscles in healthy individuals.Motor evoked potentials were recorded...

Evolutionary and genetic insights for clinical psychology.

May 28, 2020

Recent advances in genetics, and new applications of evolutionary biology, are transforming psychology and psychiatry. The purpose of this article is to review and synthesize the progress in these two...

Harmonized Outcome Measures for Use in Depression Patient Registries and Clinical Practice.

May 28, 2020

Major depressive disorder is a common mental health condition that affects an estimated 16.2 million adults and 3.1 million adolescents in the United States. Yet, a lack of uniformity remains in measu...

Perioperative Dexmedetomidine Fails to Improve Postoperative Analgesic Consumption and Postoperative Recovery in Patients Undergoing Lateral Thoracotomy for Thoracic Esophageal Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

May 28, 2020

Dexmedetomidine is widely used as an adjunct to general anesthesia. In this study, we evaluated the effects of perioperative dexmedetomidine infusion on postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing ...

Nitric Oxide Stimulates Acute Pancreatitis Pain via Activating the NF-B Signaling Pathway and Inhibiting the Kappa Opioid Receptor.

May 28, 2020

Pain is the most important clinical feature of acute pancreatitis (AP); however, its specific mechanism is currently unclear. In this study, we showed that AP caused an increase in nitric oxide (NO) s...

Reducing Opioid Overprescribing by Educating, Monitoring and Collaborating with Clinicians: A Quality Improvement Study.

May 28, 2020

Introduction Multiple barriers have been described for reducing opioid prescribing by primary care providers. We describe a quality improvement report on the effects of a series of focused interventio...

Outcomes, Microbiology and Antimicrobial Usage in Pressure Ulcer-Related Pelvic Osteomyelitis: Messages for Clinical Practice.

May 28, 2020

: Pressure ulcer-related pelvic osteomyelitis is a relatively under-studied entity in the field of bone infection. We sought to add to the limited evidence base for managing this challenging syndrome....

Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Lung Cancer Applying Integrative Oncology Concepts in a Certified Cancer Centre.

May 28, 2020

Pretreatment health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is associated with survival outcome in lung cancer patients. There is a lack of systematic research on pretreatment HRQOL in lung cancer patients wh...

Efficacy of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy following an acute coronary event: A randomized controlled trial.

May 28, 2020

Depression and anxiety are common among people who have experienced an acute coronary event (e.g., heart attack). Multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation programs often focus on reducing risk factors...

Mental Health Mobile Apps Don’t Meet Their Potential

May 15, 2020

Evidence and experience suggest that mental health-focused mobile apps hold the potential to overcome barriers to treatment in primary care. While safe and effective apps exist, evaluating and integra...

Trends in ED Admissions for Child Sexual Abuse

May 04, 2020

Physicians and nurses working in the ED are often the first to recognize sings of sexual abuse and identify children currently being abused. Although these emergency medicine professionals can serve m...

The Influence of Parental Marijuana Use on Children

Apr 30, 2020

Data suggest that the ascendancy of medicalization, legalization, and social acceptability of marijuana has resulted in an overall rise of past-year marijuana use from 11.0% (25.8 million) in 2002 to ...

Mental Disorders May Up Risk for Subsequent Medical Conditions

Apr 30, 2020

THURSDAY, April 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The presence of a mental disorder is associated with an increased risk for many subsequent medical conditions, according to a study on a Danish population ...

Psoriasis Tied to Higher Alzheimer Disease Risk

Apr 30, 2020

THURSDAY, April 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is significantly higher in patients with psoriasis versus individuals without psoriasis, according to a Korean stud...

Young Athletes & Disordered Eating

Apr 29, 2020

Evidence suggests that disordered eating (DE) is a growing problem among adolescent athletes, with a negative impact on both physical and mental health. Additionally, DE can progress to eating disorde...

Pharmacological characterization of a novel potent, selective, and orally active orexin 2 receptor antagonist, SDM-878.

Apr 28, 2020

Recently, we identified a novel orexin 2 (OX ) receptor antagonist, SDM-878 (2-(3-(2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)nicotinoyl)-3,8-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-yl)-3-methoxyisonicotinonitrile). The purpose of the pr...

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