In a study that included approximately 95,000 children with older siblings, receipt of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was not associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), regardless of whether older siblings had ASD, findings that indicate no harmful association between receipt of…

At present the key symptom for diagnosing major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents is irritability. However a new study has found that the severity of anhedonia (the inability to gain pleasure from experiences that usually are enjoyable) rather than of irritability is associated with more…

Bacteria have been discovered in the bladders of healthy women, discrediting the common belief that normal urine is sterile. This finding and its implications were addressed in an editorial published by researchers from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) in the latest issue…

Everyone knows that money can’t buy happiness – but what might make rich people happier is revealed in the current issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology.James A. Roberts of Baylor University and his two colleagues set out to explore the relationship between materialism –…

Similar Outcomes Seen When CABG Performed by Supervised Residents or Attending Physicians, According to Presentation at 95th AATS Annual Meeting When educating medical students or residents to perform highly technical procedures, there is always a challenge to balance the educational mission with maintaining quality results…

Being bullied in childhood has a greater negative impact on teenager’s mental health than being maltreated, according to new research published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal. The findings show that individuals who are bullied in childhood are around five times more likely to experience anxiety…

The government, pharmaceutical industry, and national medical organisations need to work together to look at the harms and benefits of long-term use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by healthy individuals, say neuroscientists Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir from the University of Cambridge in the UK,…

Each hour spent watching TV daily increases the risk of developing diabetes by 3.4%, concludes a study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes). The study, on the effects of sedentary or ‘sitting’ time on diabetes risk, is…

Johns Hopkins report offers physicians tips to help patients make the right call Cholesterol-lowering statins have transformed the treatment of heart disease. But while the decision to use the drugs in patients with a history of heart attacks and strokes is mostly clear-cut, that choice…

If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy. However, breast cancer is rare in adolescents, and the vast majority of teenage breast lumps turn out to be benign masses that are related to hormones…

The spectre of increased sales and use of illicit tobacco has been used as a reason for governments to avoid tobacco policy innovations such as plain packaging and tax increases.New research being presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Thoracic Society for Australia and…

For chronically ill patients with major depression, an approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) that incorporates patients’ religious beliefs is at least as effective as conventional CBT, suggests a study in the April issue of The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.“Integrating religious clients’ beliefs into…