Meta-analysis links low Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index to postoperative delirium risk
Low Nutrition Risk Linked to Higher Delirium After Surgery
This meta-analysis of 12,332 surgical patients found that a low Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) is associated with a significantly i…
Surgical patients with lower nutritional scores faced a significantly higher risk of developing delirium after their operations.
App-Based ACT Intervention Shows Preliminary Benefit for Hwa-byung Symptoms
New App Helps Release Suppressed Anger and Improve Mental Health
This pilot feasibility trial enrolled 30 adults with Hwa-byung to test a 4-week app-based ACT intervention. Adherence was 71.2% and user exp…
A new mobile therapy tool shows strong promise for easing the physical and mental burden of holding in anger.
Machine Learning with Social Determinants Improves Readmission Prediction
Machine Learning Models Predict Hospital Readmissions Better
This retrospective cohort study of 3,018 adults found that an XGBoost model integrating clinical and social determinants of health data outp…
Machine learning models using social and clinical data predicted hospital readmissions more accurately than standard methods.
Scoping review on AI fundus photography for Type 2 Diabetes highlights limited external validation and calibration
Your Eyes Could Warn You About Heart and Kidney Trouble from Diabetes
This scoping review evaluates artificial intelligence models using fundus photography for patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. While mode…
This research shows your eye exam might soon do much more than just check your vision.
Best practice advisories and education reduce inflammatory marker co-ordering in veterans
Educational tools help lower redundant inflammatory blood test orders
This retrospective cohort study examined a veteran population in Northern California over twelve months at the Northern California Veteran A…
Veteran hospitals used simple alerts to cut redundant inflammatory blood test orders by more than a third in one year.
Menopausal hormone therapy initiation around menopause linked to increased Alzheimer's risk
Hormone Therapy and Dementia: The Truth About Timing
This systematic review and meta-analysis of 213,678 menopausal women found that initiating systemic menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) around …
Many women look to hormone therapy to ease the hot flashes and mood swings of menopause.
High-frequency music therapy reduces stress in adult psychiatric inpatients compared to low-frequency sessions.
More Music Sessions May Lower Stress in Psychiatric Patients, Study Finds
This randomized controlled trial in 91 adult psychiatric inpatients in Colombia compared high-frequency (five sessions) versus low-frequency…
For patients in short-term psychiatric care, adding more music therapy sessions may help lower stress levels, but it doesn’t seem to improve…
Narrative review examines multidisciplinary strategies for metabolic syndrome in bipolar disorder
Half of Bipolar Patients Face Hidden Heart Risks
This narrative review explores multidisciplinary monitoring and treatment strategies, including lifestyle and pharmacological approaches, fo…
Imagine living with bipolar disorder. You manage your mood swings with medication and therapy.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy showed large effects on depression in treatment-resistant depression patients.
New Therapy Shifts How We Treat Stubborn Depression
This reanalysis of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 86 patients with treatment-resistant depression compared Intensive Short-Te…
It started with a whisper. “I feel…
Protocol for Randomized Clinical Trial of Acupuncture Versus Sham Acupuncture in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Acupuncture Helps IBS When Anxiety Strikes
This study protocol outlines a randomized clinical trial with placebo run-in comparing true acupuncture to sham acupuncture in 80 eligible I…
This new study will finally tell us if acupuncture truly helps people with gut issues when their minds are also struggling.
Multimodal AI methods show 65–85% accuracy for Major Depressive Disorder compared to traditional diagnostic approaches.
AI Can Spot Depression From Your Voice and Smartphone—But Is It Ready for Your Doctor?
This review analyzed 40 original studies published after 2015 in clinical and translational settings. Multimodal AI-based methods, including…
This research shows AI could make depression diagnosis faster and more objective, but it’s not ready for your doctor’s office just yet.
Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation may improve reward-effort efficiency in major depressive disorder
Depression Patients Work Smarter, Not Harder, With New Stimulation
This randomised, single-blind, cross-over, controlled trial in MDD patients and a non-depressed control group found that transcutaneous vagu…
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