CLEVELAND (MedPage Today) — The woman who underwent the first near-total face transplant in the U.S. was introduced to the world today at a press conference at the Cleveland Clinic.
WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) — The investigational anticoagulant rivaroxaban (Xarelto), given after knee surgery, showed significantly better efficacy and equivalent safety compared with enoxaparin (Lovenox), researchers said.
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (MedPage Today) — Microalbuminuria was independently associated with a threefold elevated risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in a Dutch study. The elevated risk was comparable to that previously reported for myocardial infarction and stroke.
WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) — Homeless hospital patients who were provided with housing and other services after discharge were less likely to be readmitted or to require emergency treatment, a randomized trial showed.
This won’t be a very popular article, but people should be aware of the problems that can develop from constant bullying among children. The effects of bullying were the subject of a new study, which goes on to show that childhood bullying must be stopped before it escalates. In fact, it is an absolute must. And now we have the reasons why. A new study called Prospective Study of Peer Victimization in Childhood and Psychotic Symptoms in a Nonclinical Population at Age 12 Years ( Abstract | Full Text ), published in the Archives of General Psychiatry , followed more than 6,400 children in Bristol, England over six years. They were evaluated each year from ages seven to thirteen. The results highlight the consequences of childhood bullying, and why simply tolerating it is not an option. Children who were constantly victimized by their peers at ages eight or ten were at least twice as likely to have psychotic symptoms by adolescence. Because many people might define bullying differently, they defined bullying as negative actions by one or more students with the intention to hurt. The children, their parents and teachers reported whether the child had been bullied by peers. The children also had annual visits, at which time interviewers rated the children on whether they experienced psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations, delusions or thought disorders at any time during the previous six months. Results showed that 46% of children were bullied at either age 8 or 10. By about age 13, 5.6% of the children had one or more psychotic symptoms definitely present. On top of that 11.5%-13.7% of the children had one or more psychotic symptoms suspected or definitely present.
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Childhood immunization may be a victim of its own success, requiring guerilla tactics to get kids in for vaccination and keep them coming back.
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) system for setting reimbursements might see some tweaks across the next three years, but wholesale change is unlikely in the early years of healthcare reform, said Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
CHICAGO (MedPage Today) — Older women with kidney stones had a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease, a California urologist said here.
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (MedPage Today) — Giving infants the least painful vaccine first may reduce overall pain from multiple injections, a single-center study showed.
This is really entertaining, ridiculous and something that you don’t hear all too often. Here’s the story: The police got an emergency call around 8:43 am on Sunday, that a twenty-five year old male was unresponsive. They arrived at his home and began performing CPR on him. As they were trying to revive him, they noticed an illegal, and loaded, .357 magnum handgun sitting out on his bed, as well as bags of marijuana scattered throughout the room