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Neurology & Psychiatry
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SAN FRANCISCO – A simple, low-cost intervention reduces the rate of suicide intent by about one-third among veterans at moderate risk who are discharged from the emergency department, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. The two-part... »
Suicide rates soaring among middle-age adults
Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans rose a striking 28% over the last decade, a possible reflection of the stressful economic times.
The annual, age-adjusted suicide rate among adults, aged 35-64 years, was 13.7/100,000 persons in 1999 vs. 17.6/100,000 in 2010, according to a study by the... » SAN DIEGO – The top two significant risk factors of in-hospital mortality following acute stroke are having a hemorrhagic stroke and having hyperhomocysteinemia, results from a large database analysis demonstrated.
Using information from the Nationwide Inpatient Database for 2006 to 2010, Dr.... » HONOLULU – The key to differentiating transient ischemic attacks and strokes from their main mimics – including partial seizures and complicated migraine – lies in the clinical history, Dr. Susan L. Hickenbottom said at the International Stroke Conference sponsored by the American Heart... » HONOLULU – Recent cocaine use raised the risk of death nearly threefold in a cohort of more than 1,000 patients who were hospitalized for an acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
The significantly elevated risk of death was observed despite a lack of difference in severity of initial... »
Risk factors identified for in-hospital death after stroke
How to tell TIA/stroke from mimics
Cocaine use ups hospital death post subarachnoid hemorrhage
SAN DIEGO – The top two significant risk factors of in-hospital mortality following acute stroke are having a hemorrhagic stroke and having hyperhomocysteinemia, results from a large database analysis demonstrated. Using... »
Citicoline Failed to Improve Function or Cognition in TBI Patients
Citicoline proved to be no better than placebo at improving function or cognition after traumatic brain injury in the first large randomized clinical trial to test it in this patient population. Citicoline, an endogenous... »
Greater Costs, Morbidity Among Uncontrolled Epilepsy Patients
Patients whose epilepsy was uncontrolled had more injuries, spent more time in the hospital, received more prescriptions, and incurred greater health care resource usage and costs than did patients whose epilepsy was under... »
Headache medicine specialists have used onabotulinumtoxinA off label as an efficacious treatment for headache prophylaxis for a number of years. The pooled results from the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled,... »
SAN DIEGO – Making specialized care plans for 28 high-risk patients easily accessible to physicians by computer decreased hospitalizations and emergency department visits by 65% over 2 months. In the 2 months before... »
Medicaid Project Tests Emergency Care at Psych Hospitals
A $75 million demonstration project aims to see if Medicaid patients with a psychiatric emergency would get better, more efficient care from a psychiatric hospital. Under current law, Medicaid cannot pay for care provided... »