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FDA eases mental health warnings in smoking cessation drugs’ labels
Labels on the smoking cessation drugs varenicline and bupropion will offer less severe warnings for mental health risk potentials in people with...
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Is better reporting to blame for the rise maternal mortality rates?
Although rising rates of obesity and other chronic illness are often theorized as possible factors in the spiking maternal death rates, a new...
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Spike in Colombian microcephaly cases linked to Zika infection early in pregnancy
Colombia experienced a fourfold increase in cases of microcephaly following the Zika virus outbreak in 2016, with evidence suggesting that...
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Landmark psychosocial guidelines for diabetes spark debate over the ideal vs. the practical
The American Diabetes Association has issued its first-ever guidelines addressing the psychosocial needs of persons with diabetes.
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Serious mental illness gets serious attention in 21st Century Cures Act
WASHINGTON – While the mental health care reforms in the 21st Century Cures Act are intended to broadly impact mental health care, they originate...
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Rising injectable drug use among whites may reverse declining HIV infection rates
Shifts in injectable drug use behaviors among whites could threaten years of declining HIV rates in the U.S., according to a federal report.
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Skin cancer a concern in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients
As survival rates among pediatric organ transplant recipients grow, so do the rates of cutaneous malignancy later in life for this population, who...
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FDA sunscreen guidance calls for maximal use trials
The FDA has released final industry guidance for nonclinical sunscreen manufacturers, but comments from a top agency official bring into question...
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Early TIPS effective in high-risk cirrhosis patients, but still underutilized
BOSTON – A new study confirms that high-risk cirrhosis patients treated early with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt have increased...
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Time to consider cirrhosis medical homes
Currently, there are no value-based models for hepatology in the United States. Cirrhosis medical homes could be one way to cut costs and improve...
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Surgeon general’s addiction report calls for better integrated care
Physicians must step up prevention efforts and the use of state-of-the-art medicine when treating addiction, according to a new surgeon general’s...
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Direct-acting antiretrovirals in genotype 1 HCV patients with mental health conditions safe, well tolerated
Clinicians can feel confident treating genotype 1 hepatitis C virus patients with comorbid psychiatric conditions using direct-acting...
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Treatment withdrawal without prior liver biopsy found safe in well-controlled autoimmune hepatitis
Liver biopsy prior to treatment withdrawal in patients with well-controlled autoimmune hepatitis may be unnecessary, contrary to current...
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Medicaid restrictions loosening on access to HCV therapies
BOSTON – Some state Medicaid directors have started to drop or loosen restrictions on access to direct-acting antiviral treatments for the...
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Lack of health literacy and normal routine implicated in hepatitis B virus treatment nonadherence
BOSTON – Attention to health literacy, overcoming language barriers, and educating patients about the importance of maintaining a treatment...