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Study highlights need to address vitamin D deficiency in epilepsy patients
Neurologists and other clinicians ordered vitamin D levels, DXA scans, and vitamin D supplementation for epilepsy patients in order to diagnose...
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Law & Medicine: How case law shapes EMTALA
In the 3 decades since Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, the statute has, as expected, spawned numerous lawsuits.
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Cardiovascular complications in pregnancy quickly boost future risk
NEW ORLEANS – Women with hypertension in pregnancy or peripartum cardiomyopathy warrant close monitoring thereafter because of their early high...
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Hawaii continues to top ‘America’s Health Rankings’
For the fifth consecutive year, Hawaii has been named the healthiest state by the United Health Foundation’s annual report.
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Diabetes, ischemic heart disease, pain lead health spending
Diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and back/neck pain are the top three conditions accounting for the highest spending on personal health care.
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Unless it is diagnosed, obesity won’t be treated
NEW ORLEANS – Physicians fail to include a diagnosis of obesity in the medical record of roughly half of affected patients.
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Counsel women against unnecessary prophylactic mastectomies
Women with breast cancer are much less likely to opt for contralateral prophylactic mastectomies if they know it won’t prolong their lives,...
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Pritelivir beats valacyclovir at suppressing genital HSV-2 infection
A 1-month course of pritelivir reduced genital HSV-2 shedding more than valacyclovir did in a small phase II clinical trial.
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USPSTF nixes routine genital herpes screening
Asymptomatic adults and adolescents should not undergo routine serologic screening for genital herpes because the harms outweigh the benefits,...
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Replicative Zika RNA found in brain and placental tissue
U.S.-based researchers have isolated replicative Zika virus RNA from the brain tissue of infants with microcephaly, and the placenta and fetal...
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Ask service members and veterans about sexual health
Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie advises clinicians to ask service members and veterans about their sexual health.