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Injectable Antipsychotics Reduce Hospitalization and Relapse in Bipolar Disorder
A mirror-image study shows paliperidone and aripiprazole long-acting formulations significantly lower psychiatric service use and relapse.
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Daily Resistance Training and Verticalization Safe During ECMO Support
A pilot study shows that structured mobility and resistance exercises correlate with improved functional performance in critically ill adults.
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Stroke Etiology Does Not Alter Bridging Thrombolysis Efficacy
A meta-analysis of six trials finds no interaction between stroke cause and the benefit of thrombolysis before mechanical thrombectomy.
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Specific Combination Therapies Reduce Hospitalization Risk After Lithium Failure
A large cohort study identifies clozapine and long-acting injectable combinations as effective alternatives for maintenance treatment.
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Plasma Heme Assay Predicts Mortality Risk in Sickle Cell Disease
Direct quantification of heme species identifies patients with severe hemolysis and exhausted scavenging capacity better than indirect markers.
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Network Connectivity Drives Individual Variation in Emotional Memory
Large-scale fMRI study finds distributed neural networks, not isolated amygdala activity, predict how emotional arousal enhances recall.
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Endovascular Stent-Graft Repairs Iatrogenic Subclavian Vein Injury
A 60-year-old patient maintains vessel patency two years after emergency endovascular treatment for a life-threatening venous perforation.
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Vuzix Head-Mounted Device Scores Highest in Prehospital Stroke Triage Simulation
A comparative study finds neurologists prefer head-mounted video quality while paramedics favor smartphone usability for remote triage.
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Adolescent Opioid Harms Double Despite Reduced Emergency Department Prescribing
A decade-long study of 1.2 million visits shows that cutting pediatric opioid prescriptions did not prevent a rise in clinical harms.
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Pyramidal Cell Hypofunction Predicts Psychosis Conversion in High Risk Patients
Biophysical modeling of auditory biomarkers suggests that excitatory deficits, not interneuron dysfunction, drive the transition to psychosis.
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Most Validated Radiomics Models Lack Sufficient Training Data
A systematic review of high-impact journals finds 90% of machine learning models are undertrained, risking unreliable clinical predictions.
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Periarticular Injection Reduces Opioid Use After Knee Infection Surgery
A retrospective study of 309 patients shows local anesthetic infiltration lowers pain scores without increasing 12-month reinfection risk.
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Structured Exercise and Resistance Training Safe During ECMO Support
A pilot study of 20 patients shows that intensive twice-daily rehabilitation correlates with improved functional performance and survival.
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SIRT5 Deficiency Drives Cardiac Fibrosis via Metabolic Shift in Mice
Loss of SIRT5 in cardiac fibroblasts triggers a glycolytic shift that accelerates heart failure, identifying a potential metabolic target.
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Early Dopamine Loss Drives Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's Mouse Model
Dysfunction in dopamine neurons projecting to the lateral entorhinal cortex precedes neurodegeneration and impairs associative memory.
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Inconsistent ALS Trial Analytics Increase False Positive Risk
A review of 45 trials shows that statistical method choice can swing treatment effect estimates and risk advancing ineffective therapies.
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For-Profit Trauma Centers Increase Redundancy but Fill Critical Access Gaps
Geospatial analysis shows for-profit centers serve 43 million people, often overlapping with existing nonprofit trauma infrastructure.
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Ketamine Does Not Reduce 28-Day Mortality Compared With Etomidate
A randomized trial of 2,365 critically ill adults found no survival benefit for ketamine, despite a higher rate of cardiovascular collapse.
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Sleep Apnea Prevalence Reaches 69% in Former Professional Football Players
Undiagnosed and untreated sleep apnea significantly correlate with increased pain, anxiety, and cognitive impairment in former athletes.
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High Exposure Frequency and Male Gender Predict Problematic Pornography Use
Adults who began viewing pornography as minors show higher risk of problematic use linked to exposure frequency rather than sexual attitudes.
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reduces PTSD Symptoms in Clinical Cohort
A retrospective study of 127 patients found that 65.4% achieved a clinically meaningful reduction in PCL-5 scores following rTMS treatment.
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Adolescents at Risk for Bipolar Disorder Show High Self-Harm and Comorbidity Rates
A 12-month study of UK youth finds that those screening positive for bipolar risk receive alternative diagnoses and intensive services.
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Alzheimer's and Late-Life Depression Show Divergent Molecular Signatures
Structural MRI and cross-modal mapping reveal distinct neurotransmitter and cellular patterns despite overlapping clinical symptoms.
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Early Plasma Reduces Mortality in Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage
A retrospective study of 6,183 patients shows a 5% absolute survival drop for every 10-minute delay in plasma during the first half hour.