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HHS says no to lifetime limits on Medicaid
The Trump administration’s promise of unprecedented flexibility to states in running their Medicaid programs hit its limit on May 7.
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Pediatric epilepsy may be misdiagnosed as GI disease
The patients actually had West syndrome, temporal lobe epilepsy, and Panayiotopoulos syndrome.
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S100B biomarker could reduce CT scans in children with mTBI
Serum biomarker potentially could reduce unnecessary CT scans by as much as one-third in children with mTBI.
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EVOLVE-MS-1 study: ALKS 8700 shows promise for RRMS
LOS ANGELES – ALKS 8700, a novel prodrug of monomethyl fumarate, looks promising as an oral, disease-modifying treatment for RRMS.
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Transient epileptic amnesia: Rare, treatable, and easy to miss
LOS ANGELES – A review of cases finds that neuroimaging with FDG-PET reveals focal abnormalities
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MDedge Daily News: How to handle opioid constipation
And there may be a new option for postpartum depression.
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MDedge Daily News: Fewer smokes mean fewer strokes
And is your EHR preventing breastfeeding?
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Constipation on opioids? Follow these three steps to ID the true cause
LAS VEGAS – Treatment will depend on whether the patient had constipation before taking opioids.
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MDedge Daily News: Is ‘medical aid in dying’ suicide?
And one in five Medicaid kids may have a mental health diagnosis.
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Stroke-smoking link is dose dependent in young men
Smoking cessation is the goal, but every little bit helps.
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MDedge Daily News: How Trump’s election affected contraception
And CMS floats the idea of Medicare direct provider contracting.