Metformin use is associated with lower risks for dementia and all-cause mortality across BMI groups in patients with overweight or obesity.

Patient safety and care quality decline when health care workers have poor sleep or work long, irregular shifts that disrupt sleep duration and quality.

Compassion focused overeating therapy was associated with improved vagal tone and prefrontal activation among patients with overeating presence.

Oseltamivir treatment during influenza episodes is associated with a reduced risk for serious neuropsychiatric events among children and teens.

Dementia incidence varies significantly among US veterans, with the rates highest in the Southeast and lowest in the Mid-Atlantic.

For patients with early Parkinson disease (PD), regular physical activity is associated with a slower rate of neurodegeneration.

Neurobiological processes overlapped and diverged among children with cognitive disengagement syndrome and inattentive symptom presentation.

HealthDay News — Loneliness among people with disabilities (PWD) is high, according to a study published online Aug. 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Having a supratherapeutic INR while taking warfarin does not significantly increase the risk for brain bleeding after blunt head trauma in older adults.

Patients undergoing major surgery who experience alcohol withdrawal syndrome and delirium tremens face higher risks for complications.

Childhood maltreatment shared the most polygenic variants (around 10,0000) with ADHD, ASD, MDD, BPD, and schizophrenia.

Cognitive functional therapy, with or without biofeedback, is more effective than usual care for treating patients with chronic disabling low back pain.