Increased levels of stress are more frequent in the hearing-impaired population than in normal-hearing people. Because of the high frequency of stress in the hearing-impaired population and the ability of music to reduce stress, Widex has included a feature in the high end mind440 hearing aid which allows users to listen to a choice of diff erent music styles. Generally researchers agree that m...

Objective: Although atypical antipsychotics are well-tolerated and eff ective treatment options for schizophrenia, they have metabolic side eff ects, including weight gain and increased risk of Type II Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Adiponectin, produced exclusively in adipocytes, is the most abundant serum adipokine. Low levels of adiponectin are correlated with DM, insulin resistance and coronary he...

1362 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 April 19, 2014 The Global Mental Health (GMH) movement has played a pivotal part in bringing to attention the unmet needs of patients with mental disorders, particularly in lowincome and middle-income countries. Sch izophrenia is of primary concern in view of the high level of associated disability and stigma, and the risk that, without treatment, patients will ex...

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a study by Hofstra and colleagues [1] in a recent issue of Critical Care, nebulization of drotrecogin-alfa (activated), antithrombin, heparin, or danaparoid attenuated pulmonary coagulopathy during Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia in rats; only antithrombin additionally exerted lung-protective eff ects and reduced bacterial outgrowth. Adding antithrombin to culture medium had no eff ect on th...

Cesar Victora and colleagues (April, 2015) report that breastfeeding is associated with children developing higher intelligence quotients (IQ) in later life. Victora and colleagues viewed this association as being causal. However, their experimental design ignored two important facts: fi rst, that the children were biologically related to their mothers; and second, that adult IQ is strongly her...

meta-analysis of Maharaj and Metaxa [1] describ ing the eff ects of levosimendan on mortality after coronary revascularization. Th e authors concluded that levosimendan is able to reduce mortality in patients undergoing myocardial revascularization. Th eir conclu sion, however, is unreliable and misleading for several reasons. Th e basic reason is that their meta-analysis did not include compar...

Background: Artesunate has recently been used in some pharmacological preparation to induce tumor cell apoptosis. The drug is a semi-synthetic derivative of artemisinin, traditionally used for its antimalarial. However, up to now, its anticancer mechanism against diff erent types of tumors is not known.Objectives: The most important purposes of the present research was fi...

Psychiatry is used to being attacked by external parties with antidiagnosis and antitreatment agendas. However, the recent disclosure that a doctor (Professor Peter Gøtzsche) had joined a new group, the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, whose launch was accompanied by newspaper headlines such as “Antidepressants do more harm than good, research says” and “Psychiatric drugs are doing us mor...

and colleagues, in which they addressed, on the basis of their previous work, the underlying mechanisms for the protective eff ect of a small component of traditional Chinese herbs, sodium ferulate (SF), on osteoarthritis (OA) [1]. Utilizing the classical in vitro OA chondrocyte model induced by IL-1β, they provided lines of evidence that SF does make a big diff erence to the OA model in a dose...