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Healio Minute Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 Edition: Cognitive enhancers, high-volume hospitals, infection-sniffing dogs

What just happened in medicine and why do you care?

No need for cognitive enhancement among healthy patients

Healio.com/Psychiatry: Canadian researchers urge against prescribing cognitive enhancers for patients without an ADD diagnosis. Read more.

Go big and go home

Healio.com/Hematology-Oncology: High-volume hospitals have lower ovarian cancer mortality rates. Read more.

‘Sit … stay … detect Clostridium difficile infection … Good boy!’

Healio.com/Infectious-Disease: A trained beagle accurately identifies patients, stool samples infected with C. difficile. Read more.

Progress in neuroprosthetic limbs may lead to restored ability for patients with paralysis

Healio.com/Orthotics-Prosthetics: Researchers successfully perform brain-machine interface in a patient with tetraplegia. Read more.

‘Sounds good, as long as I don’t have to spend any time in the woods.’

Healio.com/Psychiatry: Cosmetic camouflage therapy improved quality of life for patients with facial skin conditions. Read more.