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VANCOUVER Another COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Vancouver General Hospital after two patients recently tested positive for the disease. The hospital has dealt with several outbreaks in recent weeks and while one in the T11D unit in the Jim Pattison Pavilion was recently declared over, there is still an active outbreak in the T8B unit. The latest, declared by Vancouver Coastal Health Sunday, is in the inpatient T14G unit, which is also in the Jim Pattison Pavilion. That unit has been closed to new admissions and transfers, and visits have been suspended. Exceptions are in place for compassionate, end-of-life visits, however.
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Intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) wasn t much help for people struggling with bipolar depression, according to a new study.
In a randomized trial of 37 adults with type I or type II bipolar disorder experiencing an acute major depressive episode, those who received iTBS didn t have any fewer depressive symptoms than those who received a sham iTBS measured by Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) scores (least squares mean difference between groups -1.36, 95% CI -8.92 to 6.19,
P=0.91 in favor of sham iTBS), reported Lakshmi Yatham, MBBS, MBA, of the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver, and colleagues.
Only three patients in each group had a clinical response; this equated to 16% of the active iTBS group versus 17% of the sham group during the double-blind phase, the group wrote in
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