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Parental addictions forecast 69 percent higher rate of depression in their eventually adult children — as compared to children of non-addicts 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Esme Fuller-Thomson, Robyn B. Katz, Vi T. Phan, Jessica P.M. Liddycoat, and Sarah Brennenstuhl, The long arm of parental addictions: The association with adult children’s depression in a population-based study, Psychiatry Research, doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2013.02.024 (in press, early online publication of corrected proof, 06 May 2013) Citation — to [...]

Categories: Genetics,Medicine,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health,Science

Tagged: 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, addiction, addicts, depression, Dominic Ali, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Jessica P.M. Liddycoat, Parental addictions linked to adult children’s depression, Robyn B. Katz, Sarah Brennenstuhl, The long arm of parental addictions The association with adult children’s depression in a population-based study, University of Toronto, Vi T. Phan

Published:: 13 May 2013 – 16:13
Author:: By BrainiYak

Yersinia pestis is now demonstrated to have caused the 6th through 8th Century Justinian equivalent of the “Black Death” — allegedly making Yersinia pestis the causative agent for three pandemics, including the two more recent ones which spanned the 14 – 17th and 19th – 21st Centuries 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Michaela Harbeck, Lisa Seifert, Stephanie Hänsch, David M. Wagner, Dawn Birdsell, Katy L. Parise, Ingrid Wiechmann, Gisela Grupe, Astrid Thomas, Paul Keim, Lothar Zöller, Barbara Bramanti, Julia M. Riehm, and Holger C. Scholz, Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6th Century AD Reveals Insights into [...]

Categories: Biology,Epidemiology,Infectious disease,Medicine,Science

Tagged: Aschheim, Astrid Thomas, Barbara Bramanti, David M. Wagner, Dawn Birdsell, Gisela Grupe, Holger C. Scholz, Ingrid Wiechmann, Julia M. Riehm, Justinian, Justinianic, Katy L. Parise, Lisa Seifert, Lothar Zöller, Michaela Harbeck, Paul Keim, pestilence, plague, Stephanie Hänsch, Y pestis positive, Y pseudotuberculosis, Yersinia pestis, Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6th Century AD Reveals Insights into Justinianic Plague

Published:: 10 May 2013 – 13:19
Author:: By BrainiYak

Major depression appears to be grossly over-diagnosed and treated in the United States — says an apparently indicative study 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Ramin J. Mojtabai, Clinician-Identified Depression in Community Settings: Concordance with Structured-Interview Diagnoses, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 82 (3): 161-169, DOI: 10.1159/000345968 (April 2013) Citation — to press release Natalie Wood-Wright, Over-diagnosis and over-treatment of depression is common in the U.S., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (30 [...]

Categories: Medicine,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health

Tagged: ational Survey of Drug Use and Health, Clinician-Identified Depression in Community Settings: Concordance with Structured-Interview Diagnoses, disorder, DSM IV, error rate, major depressive episode, MDE, medical model, mental disorders, mental illness, Natalie Wood-Wright, Over-diagnosis and over-treatment of depression is common in the U.S., overdiagnosis, overtreatment, Phillip W. Long, psychiatric illness, psychiatric medications, psychiatrists, psychologists, Ramin J. Mojtabai, Unipolar Affective Disorder

Published:: 2 May 2013 – 15:07
Author:: By BrainiYak

The “special section” cancer overview contained in Science’s 29 March 2013 issue is important reading — a reminder that “personalized” medicine claims are mostly nonsense — and that, once the volume of driver mutations get rolling and metastasize, hope for cure fades 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation Special Section: Cancer Genomics, Science 339 (6127): 1539-1570 (29 March 2013) (the Section’s included articles are free, provider that the reader registers with the Science website) The two most important insights From Jocelyn Kaiser: [T]umors often contain many subsets of cells that are related but genetically distinct. As a tumor [...]

Categories: Biology,Medicine,Science

Tagged: Bert Vogelstein, Cancer Genome Landscapes, Dead Enzymes Show Signs of Life, driver genes, drugs that target specific gene mutations, intragenic mutations, intratumor heterogeneity, intratumoral genetic diversity, Jocelyn Kaiser, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Luis A. Diaz Jr., Mitch Leslie, Nickolas Papadopoulos, passenger genes, pseudoenzymes, Shibin Zhou, Special Section Cancer Genomics, The Downside of Diversity, tumorigenesis, Victor E. Velculescu

Published:: 1 May 2013 – 12:53
Author:: By BrainiYak

Atrocious medical reporting from people who should know better — when journalists and publicists leave out all quantified or quantifiable data, general statements about statistical significance mean little or nothing 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to press release News and Multimedia, Studies show that in older patients hip fracture can be deadly and debilitating, International Osteoporosis Foundation (22 April 2013) Here is what International Osteoporosis Foundation wrote — apparently without thinking about the potentially scary message that they were communicating From the press release: [...]

Categories: Aging,Medicine,Public Health,Science Journalism

Tagged: hip fracture, International Osteoporosis Foundation, Studies show that in older patients hip fracture can be deadly and debilitating, surgery for hip fracture

Published:: 22 April 2013 – 17:48
Author:: By BrainiYak

Only 2 new antibiotics have been FDA approved since 2009 — and only 7 new ones are in Phase II clinical testing — which the Infectious Diseases Society of America calls a worrisome situation 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Helen W. Boucher, George H. Talbot, Daniel K. Benjamin Jr, John Bradley, Robert J. Guidos, Ronald N. Jones, Barbara E. Murray, Robert A. Bonomo, and David Gilbert, for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 10 × ’20 Progress—Development of New Drugs Active Against Gram-Negative Bacilli: An Update [...]

Categories: Infectious disease,Medicine,Public Health,Science

Tagged: 10 × '20 Progress Development of New Drugs Active Against Gram Negative Bacilli, Acinetobacter baumannii, antimicrobial pipeline, bacilli, bacillus, bacteria, Barbara E. Murray, China Takes Aim at Rampant Antibiotic Resistance, Dame Sally Davies, Daniel K. Benjamin Jr, David Gilbert, Despite Superbug Crisis Progress in Antibiotic Development Alarmingly Elusive, Enterobacter species, Enterococcus faecium, Escherichia coli, ESKAPE pathogens, genus, George H. Talbot, Global Risks 2013 Eighth Edition, GNB, Hans Christian Gram, Helen W. Boucher, hospitalized patients, IDSA, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Jerica Pitts, John Bradley, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Lee Howell, Mara Hvistendahl, methicillin-resistant, nonhospitalized patients, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Robert A. Bonomo, Robert J. Guidos, rod-shaped, Ronald N. Jones, Staphylococcus aureus, superbug, World Economic Forum

Published:: 18 April 2013 – 17:27
Author:: By BrainiYak

Science ran a multiple story overview of WHO’s handling of the SARS epidemic in 2003 — which essentially concludes that, despite significant advances in biotechnology, the world’s sociopolitical and public health infrastructure is still unlikely to act with ideal efficiency in response to a pandemic today 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citations Martin Enserink, War Stories, Science 339(6125): 1264-1268, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1264 (15 March 2013) Martin Enserink, SARS: Chronology of the Epidemic, Science 339(6125): 1266- 1271, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1266 (15 March 2013) Dennis Normile, Understanding the Enemy, Science 339(6125): 1269-1273, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1269 (15 March 2013) Dennis Normile, The Metropole, Superspreaders, and Other Mysteries, Science [...]

Categories: Epidemiology,Medicine,Public Health,Science

Tagged: Arabian Peninsula, Carlo Urbani, China, Christopher Dye, Dennis Normile, Guandong Province, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Isabelle Nuttall, Martin Enserink, NCoV, novel coronavirus, SARS, SARS Chronology of the Epidemic, SARS-CoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome, The Metropole Superspreaders and Other Mysteries, Vietnam, WHO, World Health Organization

Published:: 15 April 2013 – 15:15
Author:: By BrainiYak

A review of two metropolitan cancer registries indicates that about 26 percent of women with breast cancer — who have been prescribed adjuvant hormone therapy — either never begin it, or end before they should 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Christopher R. Friese, T. May Pini, Yun Li, Paul H. Abrahamse, John J. Graff, Ann S. Hamilton, Reshma Jagsi, Nancy K. Janz, Sarah T. Hawley, Steven J. Katz, and Jennifer J. Griggs, Adjuvant endocrine therapy initiation and persistence in a diverse sample of patients with breast cancer, [...]

Categories: Medicine,Public Health

Tagged: Adjuvant endocrine therapy initiation and persistence in a diverse sample of patients with breast cancer, adjuvant hormone therapy, Ann S. Hamilton, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, cancer registries, Christopher R. Friese, Jennifer J. Griggs, John J. Graff, Nancy K. Janz, Paul H. Abrahamse, recommended breast cancer treatment, Reshma Jagsi, Sarah T. Hawley, SEER, Steven J. Katz, T. May Pini, therapeutic compliance, Yun Li

Published:: 12 April 2013 – 12:59
Author:: By BrainiYak

A Harvard School of Public Health/University of Washington study concludes that eating moderate amounts of fatty fish lowers all cause mortality by up to 27 percent in elderly people — but that’s too big a claim for this comparatively small cohort review to persuasively make stick 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Dariush Mozaffarian, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Irena B. King, Xiaoling Song, Hongyan Huang, Frank M. Sacks, Eric B. Rimm, Molin Wang, and David S. Siscovick, Plasma Phospholipid Long-Chain ω-3 Fatty Acids and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Older Adults: A Cohort Study, Annals of Internal Medicine 158(7):515-525 (02 [...]

Categories: Biochemistry,Biology,Medicine,Public Health

Tagged: Dariush Mozaffarian, David S. Siscovick, Eric B. Rimm, Frank M. Sacks, Higher blood omega-3s associated with lower risk of premature death among older adults, Hongyan Huholipid Long-Chain ω-3 Fatty Acids and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Olderang, Irena B. King, Marge Dwyer, Molin Wang, Plasma Phosp Adults: A Cohort Study, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Xiaoling Song

Published:: 2 April 2013 – 16:51
Author:: By BrainiYak

The overhyped personalized medicine frontier — biology and clinical reality intrude 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to an overview article Ralph I. Horwitz, Mark R. Cullen, Jill Abell, and Jennifer B. Christian, (De)Personalized Medicine, Science 339 (6124): 1155-1156, DOI: 10.1126/science.1234106 (08 March 2013) Greed has transformed medicine in undesirable ways — and “personalized” medicine is going to be another avenue for corporate-sponsored medical fraud Greed [...]

Categories: Biology,Medicine,Public Health,Science,Statistics

Tagged: (De)Personalized Medicine, behaviors, chance, diet, genetic and molecular mechanisms, genetically homogeneous Berbers of Morocco, genomics, greed, Jennifer B. Christian, Jill Abell, Mark R. Cullen, medical fraud, personalized medicine, Ralph I. Horwitz, RNA molecules, socioeconomic factors, stress, transcriptome

Published:: 27 March 2013 – 13:21
Author:: By BrainiYak

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Parental addictions forecast 69 percent higher rate of depression in their eventually adult children — as compared to children of non-addicts 0

Yersinia pestis is now demonstrated to have caused the 6th through 8th Century Justinian equivalent of the “Black Death” — allegedly making Yersinia pestis the causative agent for three pandemics, including the two more recent ones which spanned the 14 – 17th and 19th – 21st Centuries 0

Major depression appears to be grossly over-diagnosed and treated in the United States — says an apparently indicative study 0

The “special section” cancer overview contained in Science’s 29 March 2013 issue is important reading — a reminder that “personalized” medicine claims are mostly nonsense — and that, once the volume of driver mutations get rolling and metastasize, hope for cure fades 0

Atrocious medical reporting from people who should know better — when journalists and publicists leave out all quantified or quantifiable data, general statements about statistical significance mean little or nothing 0

Only 2 new antibiotics have been FDA approved since 2009 — and only 7 new ones are in Phase II clinical testing — which the Infectious Diseases Society of America calls a worrisome situation 0

A review of two metropolitan cancer registries indicates that about 26 percent of women with breast cancer — who have been prescribed adjuvant hormone therapy — either never begin it, or end before they should 0

A Harvard School of Public Health/University of Washington study concludes that eating moderate amounts of fatty fish lowers all cause mortality by up to 27 percent in elderly people — but that’s too big a claim for this comparatively small cohort review to persuasively make stick 0

The overhyped personalized medicine frontier — biology and clinical reality intrude 0

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