Top Medical Bulletin 29/Jund/2022

Here are the top medical stories for today:

New therapy to reduce Headache, PTSD following brain injury    

Effective treatments exist for post-traumatic stress disorder but not for post-traumatic headache, which along with traumatic brain injury, scientists are still working to understand. A new therapy is said to be the first to be developed specifically for post-traumatic headache significantly reduced related disability in veterans following a traumatic brain injury.

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New therapy to reduce Headache, PTSD following brain injury 

Genes may affect survival in Parkinson's patients     

Scientists from different institutes studied the records of 2,037 Parkinson's disease patients from their first hospital visit and believed that the genetic variants may shed light in how fast or slow Parkinson's disease progresses in cases where a single gene is involved.

Patients who had either the LRRK2 or PRKN gene mutations had a longer survival time than patients without a gene mutation. Conversely, those who had the SNCA or GBA mutations had a shorter survival time than those without a mutation.

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Genes may affect survival in Parkinson's patientsCyberbullying and suicidality in early adolescence- Is there a link?   

Young adolescents who are targets of cyberbullying are more likely to report suicidal thoughts and attempts, an association that goes above and beyond the link between suicidality and traditional offline bullying. A new study published in JAMA Network Open reports an association. To better understand whether cyberbullying is unique in its association with suicidality in early adolescence., the researchers analyzed data from a diverse sample of over 10,000 children between the ages of 10 and 13.

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Cyberbullying and suicidality in early adolescence- Is there a link? Emergency care , hospitalizations higher among cannabis users 

according to a new study , published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research, visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations are 22 per cent higher among individuals who use cannabis compared with those who do not.

The study found that serious physical injury and respiratory-reasons were the two leading causes of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among cannabis users.

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Emergency care , hospitalizations higher among cannabis users