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Fixing up blighted physical environments

Greening Vacant Land Improves Neighborhood Mental Health

Cleaning up vacant lots in resource-limited urban settings can aid residents' mental health
The risk of having no or only one child is elevated for women with an unfavorable prepregnancy lipid profile

Unfavorable Prepregnancy Lipid Levels Linked to Low Parity

Higher prepregnancy TG and TG:HDL-c ratio linked to increased risk of one lifetime pregnancy
Coverage rates and access to care are significantly higher in states with Medicaid expansion

Increased Coverage in States With Medicaid Expansion

Most low-income non-elderly adults in non-expansion state of Kansas support expanding Medicaid
Ticks capable of transmitting Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses have been identified in dozens of places across the United States where the pests had never previously been recorded

Lyme-Bearing Ticks More Widespread in U.S. Than Thought

Disease-carrying ticks were detected in 83 counties where they'd never been found before
Availability of generic antivirals for treating chronic hepatitis B virus is increasing

Availability of Generic Antivirals for Hepatitis B Increasing

Drop in median price of WHO-prequalified generic tenofovir from $208 to $32 from 2004 to 2016
School-aged children with developmental dyslexia more frequently have visual function deficits than typically developing children

Visual Function Deficits Up in Developmental Dyslexia

Increased prevalence of deficits in visual function versus typically developing school-age children
Patients with cancer who receive complementary medicine are more likely to refuse conventional cancer treatment

Complementary Medicine Use Ups Refusal of Usual Cancer Therapy

Mortality risk linked to complementary medicine mediated by treatment refusal
Epinephrine use results in improved 30-day survival versus placebo in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Epinephrine Ups Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

But no significant difference versus placebo in rate of survival with favorable neurologic outcome
There have been substantial increases in complete abstinence from substance use reported by high school students over the past 40 years

Abstinence Rates for Substance Use Increasing Among Teens

Trends in non-use differed by substance, with marijuana use decreasing the least
Empagliflozin does not increase the risk of bone fracture in patients with type 2 diabetes

Empagliflozin Doesn’t Up Risk of Bone Fractures

Per pooled data from placebo-controlled trials and data from a head-to-head study with glimepiride