by Ket Patel | Aug 3, 2012 | Psychiatry
A culturally tailored family intervention program significantly reduced current drug use and risky sexual behaviors in high-risk Hispanic youth, in a randomized trial of more than 200 teens. Data from the Monitoring the Future survey showed high rates of problem...
by Ket Patel | Aug 2, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Depression
Ninety minutes of aerobic exercise per week reduced depressive symptoms in patients with stable coronary heart disease to the same extent as did sertraline therapy, in a study of 101 patients published online Aug. 1 in the Journal of the American College of...
by Ket Patel | Aug 1, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders
A family member with Parkinson’s disease confers the strongest risk for developing the disease, according to findings from the largest and most comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of Parkinson’s disease risk factors suitable for screening in primary...
by Ket Patel | Aug 1, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Neuro-Oncology
As the men and women who graciously serve our country return home, often times we can easily recognize the associated morbidity that resulted from their service. The physical injuries that can occur are obvious. But people have become more sensitive toward the...
by Ket Patel | Aug 1, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Neurosurgery
Are a few animal studies and a handful of human case reports enough to let physicians skirt institutional review boards? Two neurosurgeons in California did just that when they used Enterobacter aerogenes to infect the surgical wounds of three terminally ill...
