14.10.14 : Medical News of the Day : Among relatively young patients enrolled in a prospective study of schizophrenia spectrum disorders -- mean age 24 -- half were overweight or obese, nearly 60% had abnormal lipid levels, half had above-normal blood pressure or overt hypertension, and 13% met criteria for metabolic syndrome, reported Christoph U. Correll, MD, of North Shore-LIJ Health System in Glen Oaks, N.Y., and colleagues reports online in JAMA Psychiatry. Five major U.S. airports will begin screening travelers entering the country from the three West African nations hit hardest by the ongoing Ebola epidemic, federal health officials announced Wednesday. These five airports receive 94 percent of the roughly 150 travelers who arrive daily in the United States from the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a news briefing. A new publication, from the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), entitled Osteoporosis in men: Why change needs to happen, highlights the fact that the ability of men to have independent pain-free lives into old age is being seriously compromised by osteoporosis and that one-third of all hip fractures occur in men, with mortality of 37% in the year following fracture. Two courses of antenatal corticosteroids can safely be administered to pregnant women with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PROM) without increasing the risk for neonatal sepsis, suggested an article published online October 6 in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Patients with mild gallstone pancreatitis who were admitted to the surgery service went to the operating room sooner and had shorter hospital stays and lower hospital costs than those admitted to the medicine service, pointed a new retrospective study published online in the American Journal of Surgery
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