Today's Health News
Primary Care Providers Can Improve Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
Most adults with diabetes, including high-risk patients, seen by a primary care doc in previous year
Discharge Opioid Rx for Heart Dz Patients May Impact Follow-Up
Findings seen in patients with admitting diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome, decompensated heart failure
Sports Medicine Society Updates Concussion Guidelines
Guidance is for physicians who provide sports concussion care from acute injury to return-to-play
Artificially Sweetened Drinks Linked to Stroke After Menopause
Risk for all stroke, ischemic stroke, CHD, all-cause mortality up with highest level of consumption
Brief Anesthesia in Infancy Does Not Mar Neurodevelopment
General anesthesia less than one hour does not seem to alter neurodevelopmental outcome at age 5
Most A-Fib Patients Have at Least One Identifiable Trigger
Triggers more commonly associated with family history of atrial fibrillation, less likely with CHF
Risk Factors ID’d for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Mortality
In older patients, risk factors include advanced age, DLBCL stage, Charlson Comorbidity Index
Over Half of Hip Replacements Expected to Last 25 Years
Second review shows 82.3 and 69.8 percent 25-year survival for total, unicondylar knee replacement
CDC: Heterosexual Syphilis Transmission Up for Drug Users
Substantial proportion of heterosexual syphilis transmission seen in drug users, especially meth users
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Survival in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
Radiomic Prognostic Vector IDs patients with median overall survival of less than two years