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Neurology & Psychiatry
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Imaging algorithm may improve stroke treatment selection
SAN DIEGO – A Massachusetts General Hospital neuroimaging algorithm that is used to help in the selection of appropriate treatment for patients with severe ischemic strokes caused by anterior circulation occlusions led to significant improvements in mortality and outcomes and a decrease in the... »
Early, intensive BP drop benefits stroke patients
LONDON – Receipt of early, intensive blood pressure–lowering treatment improved functional outcomes in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage in a large, randomized trial.
There was a significant, favorable shift in the distribution of modified Rankin Scale (mRS) scores with a more intensive... » 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 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.... »
Intervention shows promise for saving suicidal veterans
Suicide rates soaring among middle-age adults
Risk factors identified for in-hospital death after stroke
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... »