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Post-transplant hepatitis C treatment increases access to transplant and reduces waitlist time among hepatitis C-positive patients awaiting kidney transplantation

Post-Transplant Tx Reduces Wait for Kidney in Hep C+ Patients

Delaying treatment until after transplant doesn't adversely impact kidney allograft or survival
The rate of mental health-related physician office visits is higher to psychiatrists than primary care physicians for all adults except those aged 65 years and older

More Adults Go to Psychiatrist, Not PCP, for Mental Health Care

But, older adults just as likely to see a primary care physician for mental health-related issues
Job strain is associated with an increased risk of death among men with cardiometabolic disease

Job Strain May Raise Death Risk in Men With Cardiometabolic Dz

Increased mortality greater than excess linked to HTN, obesity, physical inactivity, high alcohol intake
Three assays may detect early lung cancer in blood samples using genome sequencing

ASCO: New Assays May Detect Early Lung Cancer in Blood

Targeted sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, whole-genome bisulfite sequencing show potential
Gut microbiota at ages 3 to 4 months may contribute to the protective effect of breastfeeding against overweight

Microbiota in Breastfed Infants May Help Prevent Overweight

Elevated risk of overweight for formula-fed infants attenuated with adjustment for gut microbiota
Physicians have a role to play in caring for caregivers to help prevent burnout

AMA Guide Highlights Importance of Caring for Caregivers

Burnout can have harmful effects for both patients and caregivers if left unaddressed
The prevalence of being uninsured varies by occupational groups

CDC: Prevalence of No Insurance Varies by Occupational Groups

Significant drop in prevalence of uninsured from 2013 to 2014; variation by occupation in both years
The American Academy of Family Physicians has joined 40 public health and medical associations in favor of a proposed update to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's cigarette product standards to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes.

AAFP Joins Call on FDA to Reduce Nicotine Content in Cigarettes

AAFP and other signatories also call on FDA to apply the proposal to other combustible tobacco products
Compared to saphenous-vein grafts

Radial-Artery Grafts Better Than Saphenous-Vein Grafts in CABG

Lower adverse cardiac events seen at five-year follow-up after coronary-artery bypass surgery
Under the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association hypertension guidelines

Under New Guidelines, More Stroke Survivors With HTN Dx

Also, more are not within recommended BP target compared with Joint National Committee report