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Adolescent and young adult children of BRCA+ mothers more concerned about cancer, had stronger beliefs about genetic risk

No official vote is planned, and no specific vaccine products will be discussed

No significant benefit seen for high-dose versus standard anticoagulation therapies, may be harmful

Odds of hospitalization not significantly different during periods with alpha or other variant predominance, delta predominance, versus omicron-predominant periods

But rates higher for infection-related cancers, such as liver and stomach cancers, and cervical cancer

Access to GAH during adolescence, adulthood linked to lower odds of past-year suicidal ideation versus desiring but not accessing GAH

Odds of five-year all-cause mortality up for stroke patients with ACS, atrial fibrillation/flutter, heart failure, severe ventricular arrhythmias

Multipronged approach is needed, including education of the lay public, advocacy, enforcement, development of promotion programs

Risk for hypertension increased within first 10 years after delivery and remained elevated at least 40 years later

New review shows headache disorders are a global burden

While there was a shift toward evidence-based indications, majority of use remains off-label

ED visits, systemic steroid use, chronic respiratory symptoms more likely for children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia who attend day care

Findings seen among teens followed for 10 years into early adulthood

Proctor & Gamble said that it has not received any reports of harm from the recalled products

Effectiveness of full vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infections caused by the delta variant or other variants wanes more quickly

Improvements in cardiac structure, function seen at 30 weeks of treatment with mavacamten versus placebo

But placebo-controlled trial shows lower all-cause mortality at 28 days and 60 days in patients receiving baricitinib plus standard of care

Those categorized as lonely have higher levels of social isolation, higher symptom severity scores for all symptoms

Associations seen for shift work, irregular or permanent shift work, day-shift work, irregular or permanent night-shift work

But adherence to healthy lifestyle not associated with decreased risk for overall prostate cancer

Risk for hospitalization, death higher for both current and former smokers

65 percent of respondents reported burnout; more negative mental health impacts seen for frontline and practicing IPs

However, individual benefit shows large degree of variability

Reactions appeared near injection site at a median onset of day 8 after first dose; six of 12 patients had no recurrence after second dose

The agency's latest moves should help ease the dire situation many mothers face

Users endorse medical cannabis for sleep disturbance and mood/anxiety symptoms

Asian, Black, Hispanic children less likely to be diagnosed than Whites; White children more likely to receive some treatment

Overdose rate in 2020 nearly seven times higher for Black versus White men aged 65 years and older

At week 12, no difference in seizure frequency seen between cannabidiol and placebo as adjunctive therapy in adults

Food insecurity also tied to lower-quality diet in older adults

Findings independent of changes in demographic, economic, and health care access

Between 2014 and 2021, 250 family voucher-based donations facilitated 573 total transplants

Model compares costs for ranibizumab port delivery system versus conventional intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor injections

Most commonly reported physical activities include walking (70.8 percent) as well as gardening and weightlifting

Royal Caribbean said that those who tested positive were immediately isolated to prevent the spread of infection

Higher baseline coffee consumption also linked to slower Aβ-amyloid accumulation during a 126-month study period as shown on brain MRI scans

Similar in-person rules for other medications have been suspended during the pandemic

Stroke survivors less likely than cancer survivors to quit smoking

Prevalence increased for self-reported diagnoses of migraine, hypertension, tendinitis, osteoarthritis, and endometriosis

Of those receiving a second COVID-19 vaccine dose, 95.6 percent did so within the recommended interval

The variant, called BA.2, has genetic traits that make it somewhat more difficult to detect

Antismoking advocates say the authorization 'leaves our nation's youth at an undue risk of addiction'

ACR Convergence 2021

Attorneys general say 'anti-vaxxer' accounts on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter reach more than 59 million followers

From 1999 to 2018, increasing prevalence of teen obesity associated with low-income households, lower education level for head of household

25-year increase in left ventricular mass linked to lower cognition on most tests; increase in LAV linked to lower global cognition

Risk driven by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preterm births

Risk for death lower for patients with lung cancer, renal cell carcinoma, melanoma with versus without obesity

However, there is still a gap in life expectancy, health-adjusted life expectancy between those with and without inflammatory bowel disease

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology

Tonsillectomy postop mortality rate significantly higher at 117.22 per 100,000 operations compared with 7.04 per 100,000 operations overall

And standard of care plus abiraterone improves survival in men with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer

More deaths would have been averted had vaccine coverage targets from COVAX and WHO been met

Pfizer-BioNTech will try a third dose to see if it produces a more robust response

6.8 percent of children aged 5 to 17 years were victims of or witnessed violence in their neighborhood; exposure varied by age, race, urbanization

Heterologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/mRNA prime-boost vaccination more effective than homologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/ChAdOx1 nCoV-19

Apart from fall 2020, hip fracture surgery volumes among older individuals were lower than among historic controls until vaccination

Company will use COVID-19 vaccines supplied by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Costs of treatment and prevention could potentially be offset by cutting direct medical costs, authors say

Poll was conducted before the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

In the year following start of dialysis, stabilization with mean changes of +2 and –2 seen in mental and physical component summaries

Eight classes of obesity identified, which comprise distinct comorbidities, including respiratory and sleep disorders, asthma

Groups urge policymakers to increase funding to ensure all families can access mental health services

So far, existing vaccines have proven effective against prior coronavirus variants, including the delta variant

Treatment-free survival more than twice as long for nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus sunitinib for intermediate/poor-risk patients

Increases of 1 percent seen from 2020 in provisional number of births, general fertility rate; marks first increase since 2014

Prevalence of atrial fibrillation increased for firefighters with increasing numbers of fires fought per year

Occurrence of acute ischemic stroke in COVID-19 is associated with increased risk for requiring long-term care

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

However, patients with cannabis use do not have increased awareness or discomfort during procedures

Trivalent adjuvanted, trivalent high-dose inactivated influenza vaccines comparable for moderate-to-severe injection-site pain in adults 65 years and older

However, data are from survey conducted prior to U.S. emergency use authorization of any vaccines

Many do not believe COVID-19 is more severe for people suffering from asthma

Agency says key test used by the company to measure immune response from booster shot six months after the original shot likely not sensitive enough

Among U.S. adult prescription opioid users, 9.2 percent also prescribed dual anxiolytic/sedative therapy

Change will be welcome news to people who refrained from traveling for fear they would get stranded in a foreign country

Greatest decline in incident stimulant and anxiolytic/sedative-hypnotic medications was in quarter 2 of 2020

So far, no illnesses have been reported linked to these clams

Findings largely independent of blood pressure and type 2 diabetes

If rates had remained at 2008 level, there would have been an additional 848,000 cases of serious vision impairment in 2017

Israel approved booster shots for people aged 60 years and older late last month; the government lowered the age of eligibility to 40 years last week

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

Dermatologists and patients with psoriatic disease approve of a specialist-led model of care

Standardized infection ratios were lowest in children and in adults aged 70 years or older compared with overall population

Most neonates fed unpasteurized expressed breast milk until discharge; 85 percent were breastfed postdischarge

Exposure tied to 12 to 16 percent increased risk

Further study needed to determine long-term efficacy and safety and optimize patient selection

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

Emergency use authorization applies to hospitalized patients requiring supplemental oxygen, mechanical ventilation, ECMO

Despite 79.9 percent increase in parent-reported safety concerns, there was a drop in HPV vaccine-related reported adverse reactions

Authors say levels, especially in younger children, are higher than recommended limits

Panel's recommendations will now go to the FDA, which is expected to approve use of the vaccines this week

Prevalence of primary sclerosing cholangitis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease is about 2 percent