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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 1, 2014
Key clinical point: This study is a real-world analysis of migraine patients in the United States., with generalizable results, according to the r...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 30, 2014
Major finding: Telemedicine programs increased rTPA usage by up to 13% during the year after implementation.Data source: The retrospective study c...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 30, 2014
Key clinical point: Families are key in helping young children with OCD experience less-intense symptoms.
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 24, 2014
Major finding: Patients receiving the biologic agent ofatumumab experienced suppression of multiple sclerosis lesions when their CD19 B-cell count...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 23, 2014
Major finding: Over 6 years of follow-up, 331 of 862 patients with MCI died vs. 224 of 1,292 cognitively normal patients. Data source: A 2,000 pat...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 22, 2014
Key clinical point: These investigational drugs may be an improvement over currently available migraine prevention drugs in terms of side effects ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 21, 2014
Major finding: Patients with a stenosis of 50% or more performed significantly worse on cognitive tests than did those without stenosis but with s...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 21, 2014
Major finding: Childhood maltreatment was associated with symptoms of psychosis in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, and h...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 17, 2014
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 16, 2014
Major finding: Schizophrenia patients with auditory hallucinations showed decreased electrical activity in the frontal and temporal brain regions....
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 16, 2014
Major finding: The risk for RA was decreased (hazard ratio, 0.69; 95% confidence interval, 0.59-0.80) in schizophrenia, but not in bipolar disorde...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 15, 2014
Major finding: The Healthy Aging Brain Center program saved $2,856 per patient each year.Data source: A 1-year pilot program involving 303 patient...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 15, 2014
Major finding: Primary care doctors and subspecialists were up to 9 times more likely to initiate tube feeding in hospitalized patients with sever...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 14, 2014
Major finding: The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in the United States rose significantly, from 6%-10% from 1988-2010.Data source: The findings ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 14, 2014
Major finding: Two versions of the CAM-S delirium scale were predictive of major clinical outcomes in the elderly, including death within 30 days ...
