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Most physicians support Medicaid work requirements
Three states are instituting new policies for able-bodied recipients.
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Life and health are not even across the U.S.
Can data from the Global Burden of Disease 2016 help close mortality gaps and prevent deaths from opioid abuse, smoking, and obesity?
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MDedge Daily News: Diabetes patients ignore a deadly risk
And a three-in-one pill could change hypertension treatment.
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Caffeine for apnea of prematurity found safe, effective at 11 years
At 11-year follow-up, caffeine significantly improved visuomotor, visuoperceptual, and visuospatial performance.
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MedPAC urges CMS to curb low-value care
23%-37% of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one low-value service in 2014, based on analysis of claims data, for an expenditure of $2.4...
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MDedge Daily News: Time to let more pregnant women into drug trials?
And health IT under-users still outnumber super-users.
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Alzheimer’s: Biomarkers, not cognition, will now define disorder
This new way of classifying AD may change the way doctors and patients talk about the disease – and, one day, could change treatment.
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Epilepsy upped risk of unnatural death
People with epilepsy were about three times more likely to die from any unnatural cause and five times more likely to die from unintentional...
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Pregnant women in clinical trials: FDA questions how to include them
Lack of research can be harmful to mother and fetus, FDA draft guidance says, and it can be “ethically justifiable” to include them in studies.
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MDedge Daily News: Skin disorders defeat weekend warriors
And the sensitivity of vibration-based neuropathy detectors varies widely.
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Study: Type 2 narcolepsy is significantly different from type 1
Brain scans and other tests reveal more ‘severe handicaps’ in patients with type 1.