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Psychiatry
Childhood trauma appears to be a potent risk factor for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Evidence from developmental neuroscience suggests that early experience programs the development of regulatory systems that are implicated in the pathophysiology of CFS, including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. However, the contribution of childhood trauma to neuroendocrine dysfunction in CFS remains obscure.
Archives of General Psychiatry - Fri, 30 January 2009
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Psychiatry
Human personality is characterized by substantial heritability but few functional gene variants have been identified. Although rodent data suggest that the neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase (NOS-I) modifies diverse behaviors including aggression, this has not been translated to human studies.
Archives of General Psychiatry - Fri, 30 January 2009
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Neurology
Sixty adult patients with focal epilepsy undergoing inpatient monitoring. Groups of patients with epilepsy onset in different developmental periods were empirically derived and compared with each other and with normative personality data from 1571 cases.
Archives of Neurology - Fri, 30 January 2009
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Ophthalmology
Stratus OCT–3 measurements of macular and RNFL thickness and optic nerve topography vary with race, axial length, and age in healthy children. Normative pediatric OCT data should facilitate the use of OCT in assessing childhood glaucoma and other diseases.
Archives of Ophthalmology - Fri, 30 January 2009
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Infectious Diseases
One of the main purposes of this year's World Leprosy Day on Jan 25, 2009, is to address the stigma that still surrounds this potentially disfiguring disease.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Fri, 30 January 2009
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf
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Cardiology
Uric acid, insulin sensitivity, and endothelial dysfunction may be important in the development of hypertension. Corresponding circulating biomarkers are associated with risk of hypertension, but because these factors may be interrelated, whether they independently affect risk is unknown.
Archives of Internal Medicine - Fri, 30 January 2009
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Hematology
There is a broad differential to consider when evaluating a patient with angioedema, which can include capillary leak syndrome and lymphedema.
Archives of Internal Medicine - Fri, 30 January 2009
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Ophthalmology
Yearly screening that can lead to early detection of glaucoma can help prevent long-term damage to eye sight, ophthalmologists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston advised.
Baylor College of Medicine - Fri, 30 January 2009
http://www.bcm.edu
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Pediatrics
Mothers who breastfeed are less likely to neglect their children, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher in a report that appears online in the journal Pediatrics today.
Baylor College of Medicine - Fri, 30 January 2009
http://www.bcm.edu
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Infectious Diseases
Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, one of the world's largest ever recorded, is far from being brought under control. An enhanced response is needed to urgently reverse an epidemic that has so far infected more than 60,000 people and killed more than 3,100 since August 2008.
World Health Organization - Fri, 30 January 2009
http://www.who.int