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Machine learning of toxological big data can predict the toxicity of chemicals

Machine Learning Can Improve Chemical Toxicity Prediction

Read-across structure activity relationship models constructed, which outperformed animal testing
Female soccer players exhibit more widespread evidence of microstructural white matter alteration than males

Heading a Soccer Ball Found to Be Riskier for Female Players

Female players show more widespread brain tissue changes than male players after repetitive heading
There is a reduction in ovarian cancer risk associated with use of contemporary combined hormonal contraceptives

Newer Hormonal Contraception May Cut Ovarian Cancer Risk

Combined hormonal contraception use tied to lower risk; risk down with increasing duration of use
Roughly 2 percent of pediatric patients on maintenance dialysis recover within two years after dialysis initiation

Kidney Function Recovery Seen in Some Children on Dialysis

Recovery less likely in children with congenital anomalies
For adult patients in the intensive care unit

Having Hospital Palliative Care Doesn’t Impact Tx Intensity

Benefit of hospital palliative care program for patients in ICU is in increased discharge to hospice
A single checkpoint inhibitor can be used to successfully treat two simultaneous types of primary cancer in a patient with Lynch syndrome

Single Agent Treats Two Cancers With Same Genetic Cause

Pembrolizumab treated colon cancer, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in patient with Lynch syndrome
For pediatric patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest

Time to Defib Not Linked to Survival in Pediatric IHCA

No correlation in unadjusted, adjusted analyses for pediatric patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest
For older Korean women

Grip Strength Tied to Pulmonary Function in Older Women

Dose-dependent positive association seen in cohort of community-dwelling Korean women aged ≥65
Medical practices can take steps to avoid problems related to use of social media by staff members

Practices Should Set Rules for Staff Social Media Use

Staff social media accounts should be strictly personal, with no info about patients or employees
Updated guidelines have been developed for management of adult congenital heart disease

Guidelines Updated for Adult Congenital Heart Disease

New classification system intended to capture complexity of anatomy and physiology of ACHD