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Despite decreases in initial improvements, benefits seen at seven years postsurgery

Greatest risks seen with self-reported occupational metals exposure

Quality improvement effort tied to decrease in major bleeding without increase in thrombotic events

At 48 hours, mortality was 23.7 percent for those medically treated versus 4.4 percent for those surgically treated

Link remained significant in multivariable Mendelian randomization analyses adjusting for genetically predicted alcohol consumption

Multiple-dose regimen not superior to single-dose regimen among women undergoing implant-based breast reconstruction

MI outcomes poorer in Medicare beneficiaries with versus without rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory disease

Middle-aged and older adults with insomnia more likely to report memory decline over subsequent three years

Women and older adults experience more consistent decreases in diabetes-related deaths

Similar improvement in lung function, dyspnea, exercise capacity with lung volume reduction surgery, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction

Eight in 10 teen unintentional overdose deaths involved fentanyl and other synthetic opioids

About 22 percent of pregnancy-related deaths occurred during pregnancy and 25 percent occurred on the day of delivery or within one week

Patients undergoing immediate surgery experience greater anxiety than patients in active surveillance

Longer prostate cancer-specific survival seen for specific subgroups, including those with the CYP1A2 AA genotype

Neoadjuvant therapy with an NHA associated with longer time to biochemical recurrence, prolonged metastasis-free survival

While supplies of the updated Pfizer booster shot appear to be plentiful, some pharmacies have reported not having enough Moderna vaccine

Headache, fatigue, and myalgia are reported frequently; serious complications, such as confusion, encephalitis, and seizure, are less common

CPSC issued the warning after detectors failed tests with a CO concentration of 400 ppm, in violation of safety standards

Sharp increases in depression seen among teens, young adults from 2015 to 2019

Genetic predisposition to psoriasis not linked to total IBD, but is associated with Crohn disease

However, no association seen with substantive changes in medication adherence

Strongest associations seen for disease severity and time spent managing symptoms

Despite increases in TCD screening and hydroxyurea use from 2014 to 2019, use still remains low for children, teens

Additive interactions between low sleep duration and depression or bodily pain may contribute to risk for systemic lupus erythematosus

In surveillance year 2021 to 2022, 992 outbreaks were reported compared with 1,056 and 343 in 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021

Accelerated decline in cancer mortality seen recently with a 2.3 percent decrease in cancer deaths each year from 2016 to 2019

Alcohol consumption associated with decreased odds of MD in men; being underweight linked to decreased odds of MD

But rate of retrograde ejaculation higher following many surgical procedures for benign prostatic hyperplasia

Surgical success rate for self-cut mesh noninferior to that for commercial mesh kit with benefit of cost savings

Sensitivities of rapid antigen tests with nasal self-sampling declined during period of omicron emergence

Fathers' passive smoke exposure through childhood to puberty linked to nonallergic asthma risk in offspring

After repeated head injuries cease, cognitive function and brain thickness measures stabilize and blood neurofilament light levels decline

Deep learning-based tool distinguished between malignancy, controls with 74.7 percent sensitivity for malignancies smaller than 2 cm

No benefit seen for cocoa extract supplementation versus placebo

Risk factors for medical indebtedness include hospitalization, disability, high deductible, Medicare Advantage, and no insurance coverage

Of all five U.S. Multi Society Task Force recommended tests, FIT-fecal DNA every three years was most preferred test

Diet more strongly linked to CVD risk in women; high non-HDL cholesterol, depression symptoms more strongly linked in men

Problems highlighted in report include outdated data-sharing systems, below-normal staffing and training for food inspectors

Whether a similar requirement for the United States will also end this month is not known

However, with increasing age, risk for type 1 myocardial infarction increased for people with HIV with versus without hepatitis C virus infection

Race is a significant predictor of downstaging in HR+ breast cancer after adjustment for duration of NET, clinical stage

Risk of hepatocellular carcinoma increased by 35 and 61 percent for second-, third- versus first-generation U.S. Mexicans

Effects on plasma proteins known to play a role in inflammation, oxidative stress, cardiovascular disease greater in women than in men

Biomarkers linked with severity of intestinal inflammation in IBD patients, with higher sensitivity and specificity than calprotectin

Equipment issue may allow someone to break in and cause the pump to deliver too much or too little insulin to the patient

No health care providers developed monkeypox infection during the 21 days after exposure

Authors say more research is needed to determine the benefits of supplementation with standard treatment

Conversations are needed by older adults and their health care providers about treatments for arthritis and their risks

Two strong recommendations developed against use of heparin bridging in a-fib, and for continuation of VKA in patients getting pacemaker/ICD

Participants report feeling empowered by comprehensive screening

Anxiety screening recommended for adults aged 64 and younger, including pregnant, postpartum persons

Noninvasive stimulation interventions over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex linked to reductions in severity of negative symptoms

Nurse-led group cognitive behavioral therapy had no effect on objective sleep measures but did improve patient-reported secondary outcomes

3-D real IR has better image quality than 3-D FLAIR sequence for assessment of endolymphatic hydrops in Meniere disease

Risk reduced for croup before age of three years

Guideline recommendations support reduction in volume of brain irradiation while attempting to maximize disease control

Diet-related metabolites associated with global cognitive function across studies in adults of various races/ethnicities

Three clusters detected corresponding to positive symptoms, negative symptoms and work functioning, and functional domains

Anxiety score and anxiety severity higher for those with Meniere disease versus those with benign positional paroxysmal vertigo

Significant link seen for ADHD with risk for any CVD, especially cardiac arrest, hemorrhagic stroke, peripheral vascular disease/arteriosclerosis

SSBs associated with increased mortality for colorectal, kidney cancers, even after adjustment for BMI

Average emergency department charges were $3,551; charges for victims of sexual abuse highest during pregnancy

But unsupervised yoga plus online education did not reduce knee pain during walking compared with online education alone

Patients receiving bebtelovimab have more comorbidities, but do not have increased rates of progression to severe disease

History of formal or informal eviction linked to increased odds of child developmental risk, hospital admission from emergency department

Significant decrease seen in rate of ED visits, hospital admissions, admission for incident infections in year after cohort entry

Additional benefits from surgery seen for diabetes-related comorbidities and weight loss

Findings seen among children and teens needing reconstruction for anterior cruciate ligament injury

The extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator system is premarket and has not yet been approved by the FDA

Use of PCD CT images with convolutional neural network denoising improves viewing of pathologic abnormalities, detects lytic lesions

Transplant-free survival predicted by cfDNA levels stratified into tertiles, REVEAL risk groups; discrimination increased with adding cfDNA to REVEAL

47 percent of parents met PTSD cutoff on screening measure; female gender and patient depression linked to PTSD in parents

Guidelines expand indications for some vaccines and provide guidance on medication management at time of vaccination

Burnout also associated with decreased job satisfaction, low professionalism, patient dissatisfaction

Evening dosing of blood pressure medication no better than morning dosing

More Medicare beneficiaries received OUD-related telehealth services, behavioral health-related telehealth services, meds for OUD

Agency says research in labs, animals, and people suggests that monkeypox could develop resistance to the antiviral in multiple ways

Overall, deaths in Tennessee known to be linked to nitazenes rose from 10 in 2020 to 42 one year later

Signs and symptoms of atopic dermatitis improved with dupilumab versus placebo in addition to topical corticosteroids

New update strongly recommends against use of sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab for patients with COVID-19

Black, Mexican, non-U.S. citizen teens more likely to have visual acuity worse than 20/40 in better-seeing eye

However, no significant difference seen in efficacy or safety outcomes for clopidogrel versus no antiplatelet therapy

Incidence of fluid overload higher, with no improvement in clinical outcomes compared with moderate fluid resuscitation

Overall risk-benefit ratio seems to favor patients receiving linezolid at dose of 600 mg for 26 weeks

Risk increased progressively with the number of autoimmune diseases present and with younger age

March 2022 peak in cases linked to Streptococcus species consistent with historical seasonal fluctuations seen since 2016

PCV15 includes two serotypes in addition to those in the PCV13 vaccine, and is recommended according to PCV13 dosing and schedules

Management involves exclusion of known trigger foods; immunotherapy to pollens not effective for PFS

About 11,000 people around the world died from COVID-19 during the week of Sept. 5 to 11, a drop of 22 percent from the previous week

In response, White House has opened up new monkeypox vaccine equity pilot program, aimed at expanding vaccine access to communities of color

Hospitalization rates 2.5 times higher for vaccinated patients without booster versus those with booster

Age of onset younger for tumefactive demyelinating lesions than for primary central nervous system lymphoma

Adoption of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet may yield largest benefit in reducing cardiovascular events

Study looks at adolescent eating behavior and its implications for modifiable hypertension risk factors

Findings seen for people with chronic pain; no association seen for acute coronary syndrome or heart failure

Trial did not meet primary efficacy end point of disease-free survival in patients with localized RCC at high risk for postnephrectomy relapse

Crohn disease, but not ulcerative colitis, associated with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis

Specificity for MCED blood test using circulating tumor DNA is 99.1 percent, and positive predictive value is about 40 percent

Higher gestational weight gain and higher risk for excessive gestational weight gain seen for singleton pregnancies

Evidence insufficient for assessing benefits and harms of screening for children and adolescents

Maternal obesity with excessive weight gain linked to increased risk for ADHD in offspring versus normal weight without excessive weight gain

History of concussion in past 12 months significantly linked to risk for poor academic standing during same period

New long-term opioid use associated with increased risk for two-year all-cause mortality, especially for potent opioid use

Total costs increased for breast, lung, prostate cancer; OOP costs increased for these cancers and colorectal cancer

But UCM safe, feasible and may offer some health benefits for nonvigorous infants at birth

PCE significantly linked to persisting vulnerability to psychopathology, with no change in associations by age

Half of those who developed psychosis and bipolar disorder in Finland had attended Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Associations attenuated in sibling analysis indicating that the links were not causal

AYAs enrolled in trials increased from 9.5 to 14.0 percent after launch of National Clinical Trials Network

President likened JFK's space race to his own effort to slash cancer rates by 50 percent in the next 25 years

Prevalence of adrenal tumors is 1.4 percent; about 70 percent of adenomas were nonfunctioning with proportion constant across age groups

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said the patient had been hospitalized and had a severely weakened immune system

Overall incidence rate six times higher for patients aged 40 years or older versus younger than 40 years, but increase in CTCL rate significantly higher for those younger than 40 years

Unclear whether the S-Elixhauser comorbidity score offers an advantage over other similar measures

Disagreements particularly pronounced regarding weight loss, lifestyle issues

Lifeline call center received a total of 361,140 calls, chats, and texts last month

Emergency declaration will allow EMS workers, midwives, and pharmacists to administer polio vaccine

In phase 2 study, about half of patients with resectable stage II to IV cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma had pathological complete response

Change in body mass index associated with both onset and progression of the structural defects of knee osteoarthritis

Physical premenstrual symptoms more frequent with increasing age

Depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, and loneliness linked to increased risk for long COVID in a large study of mostly women

Persistent impairment in health-related quality of life seen throughout the year following a critical illness for those not fully recovered

Findings seen for visits overall and visits of lower resource intensity

Variance seen by specialty, with lower concordance for primary care

Sensitivity increased for subgroups with small lesion sizes, invasive carcinomas

Quantitative segmentation algorithm used to extract data from hematoxylin and eosin slides of colorectal cancers

Cyanuric acid, melamine, aniline, 4,4'-methylenedianiline, composite of o-toluidine and m-toluidine detected in nearly all urine samples

Median interval from initiation of tecovirimat to subjective improvement was three days

Following Philadelphia soda tax, increases were seen in purchases of sugary foods

Items associated with family behavior were reported by nurses as the largest obstacles to providing end-of-life care in critical access hospitals

Patients receiving BIHAP, using both insulin and glucagon, spent more time in euglycemia, less time in hypoglycemia

Daxxify lasts longer than Botox, with about 80 percent of users seeing no or mild facial lines at four months after injection

Highest incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events seen in those with incident fragility fracture

An estimated 18 people have died around the world in this monkeypox outbreak

They are also less likely to have surgery performed by a gynecologic surgeon with subspecialty training in minimally invasive techniques

Percentage of time in target glucose range increased with open-source AID versus sensor-augmented insulin pump

Deep learning model based on voice data from crowd-sourced audio samples uses subtle voice changes to detect COVID-19 cases

Small study with 25 patients suggests benefit for the use of microneedling on acute postsurgical scars

On small data set, model achieved 95.5 percent accuracy in assessment of endoscopic ear images compared with 65.0 percent for clinicians

Age at hypertension, type 2 diabetes diagnoses linked to age at onset of primary open-angle glaucoma; no link found for OSA, migraine

Risk factors for device-related pressure injury include fragile skin and prone positioning during mechanical ventilatory support

Risk for atrial fibrillation is greater in women than men after adjusting for height, height and weight, or body surface area

Only 7/100,000 have severe infection; respiratory support more likely to be required by those with severe infection

Federal regulators discovered reports of the cancers as part of a routine postmarket review

Two studies show no significant difference in risk for COVID-19 or in four coprimary end points, including SARS-CoV-2, serious COVID-19

Aspartame intake linked to increased risk for cerebrovascular events, while acesulfame potassium and sucralose linked to CHD risk

Most secondary end points did not support the results of the analysis for the primary end point

Intensive glucose control for 24 months did not appear to prevent the decline in residual C-peptide secretion

Increases seen in proportion of infants who had direct breastfeeding at first oral meal, average number of DBF meals during hospitalization

Higher proportion of monkeypox patients with versus without HIV infection hospitalized

Increase reported in encounters that are screened for food insecurity; 5.8 percent of encounters were food insecure

Independent association seen for tooth loss with increased risk for both cognitive decline and dementia

Odds of hospitalization higher for men receiving inadequate TTh versus those with normal testosterone concentration while receiving TTh

Medication combines a dietary supplement used in traditional Chinese medicine with an existing prescription drug for liver disorders

No association found for prescription of methotrexate with increased risk for COVID-19 or COVID-19-related death

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor made the ruling Wednesday about Truvada and Descovy

Complication rates comparable for women receiving concurrent batwing mastopexy, standard implant-based reconstruction

New standards aim to reduce injuries that can occur when swallowed magnets attract to each other inside the body

Risk for myeloma precursor disease, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, increased among WTC-exposed workers

High levels of plasma viral antigen linked to outcomes such as worse pulmonary status and longer time to hospital discharge

Adjusted rate of disease-specific mortality and relapse similar for those with and without exposure to hormones

Reduced segmentation time, interobserver variability seen with artificial intelligence assistance in segmentation for radiotherapy targeting

High GPS_CAD may predict sudden and/or arrhythmic death in patients with coronary artery disease without severe systolic dysfunction

Family Instability, Poverty & Crowded Housing, and Poverty & Parental Separation clusters linked to increased risk

Receipt of mental health treatment increased for men and women, non-Hispanic Whites and Asians, across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas

After full adjustment, association between influenza vaccination and ischemic stroke yielded adjusted odds ratio of 0.88

Future booster updates would likely target whatever omicron subvariant is spreading

Nasal and inhaled vaccines place doses directly where the virus enters the body, such as in the nose or mouth

Meanwhile, FDA is still deciding whether it will allow Juul to sell its products in this country

Results were partially attenuated when number of children in the household was introduced as a control

Lifelong physical activity or sedentary time, assessed by genotype, may be associated with risk for breast cancer

Women with ischemia or myocardial infarction without obstructive CAD may receive more specific diagnosis at a women's heart center

More improvement seen in certain indicators of neurotypical development at six months among adolescents using hybrid closed-loop system

Use of inhaled, systemic glucocorticoids associated with changes in several brain imaging parameters; effect sizes larger in systemic users

No reduction seen in respiratory symptoms for symptomatic, tobacco-exposed persons without formal diagnosis of COPD

Lower measured hypertension prevalence seen in association with higher accessibility score

Medical records of psoriasis patients show reports of symptoms suggestive of psoriasis five years before diagnosis

Early rhythm control linked to reduced risk for cardiovascular complications for those meeting, not meeting eligibility for EAST-AFNET 4 trial

Collaborative hip fracture care improves continuity of care with the hospital team

Increase seen in volume of encounters in aggregate and in share of office visits billed as longer than 30 minutes

Risk estimates (cases per 100,000) 6.44 and 5.21 for males aged 16 to 19 and 20 to 24 years, respectively, compared with 1.42 overall

Significant proportion of mortality risk associated with poor nutrient food intake explained by level of food processing

Findings for same-day nitric oxide levels and average levels for particulate matter in the preceding three days

But cancer risk up for children born after frozen-thawed embryo transfer versus fresh embryo transfer, spontaneous conception

But getting the drug, known as Albrioza, approved is a rallying cause for patients, their families, and members of Congress

The monoclonal antibody infusion is approved for use in adults

Antiviral treatment recommended for children who are hospitalized, have severe or progressive disease, or underlying conditions

Low strength of evidence that maternal WIC participation linked to increased well-child visits, childhood immunizations

Reduced incidence of AKI seen in association with multifaceted intervention, including clinical decision support, audit, feedback

In addition, racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy persist across generations

Moral distress emerged from being unable to provide optimal care, seeing pandemic’s effects on patients, coworkers

Crowdsourcing approach used to develop machine learning algorithms that quantify joint space narrowing, erosions

Risk for cardiovascular death, hospitalization for heart failure reduced regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction

Adults have increased risks for cognitive deficit, dementia, psychotic disorders, epilepsy or seizures at two-year follow-up

No increased risk seen for overall preterm birth, spontaneous preterm birth, very preterm birth, SGA, or stillbirth

Overall ultraprocessed food consumption and risk for colorectal cancer not associated for women, but risk increased with consumption of ready-to-eat/heat mixed dishes

Global variation seen in recovery, with Europe and North America showing biggest recovery

Positive effects seen on intelligence, academic performance, but functional brain changes not identified on MRI

Seven-day average of new reported cases had a daily average of 281 on Aug. 31, down from 465 on Aug. 10

43 people have been hospitalized and 10 developed hemolytic uremic syndrome; no deaths have been reported