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Nine new drug labeling and packaging guidelines have been developed with an aim of reducing medication errors

International Group Develops Best Practices for Drug Packaging

Global regulators recommend adoption of ready-to-use/administer syringes and premixed IV solutions
The American Medical Association calls for inclusive family and medical leave policies to support lesbian

AMA Calls for Inclusive Family, Medical Leave Policies

Association will advocate for policies inclusive of LGBTQ workers
The talk

TECH Parenting Can Limit Negative Impact of Media on Kids

Talk, educate, co-view, house rules approach can promote more effective media management
For patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with end-stage renal disease

HCV-Infected Kidney Transplant More Efficient in HCV-Infected

Increases quality-adjusted life expectancy, reduces costs versus transplant of HCV-uninfected kidney
Transfeminine individuals have increased rates of venous thromboembolism compared with cisgender men and cisgender women

Transfeminine Persons Have Increased VTE Incidence

More pronounced differences in VTE, ischemic stroke for those who initiated hormone tx during follow-up
Both education/behavioral and emotion-focused approaches can effectively reduce diabetes distress among patients with type 1 diabetes and elevated hemoglobin A1c

Programs Can Lower Diabetes Distress in Adults With T1DM

Both education/behavioral and emotion-focused approaches produce similar results
There is moderately high interest in genetic testing for melanoma risk among the general population

Patient Interest Fairly High for Melanoma Genetic Risk Testing

Reduced interest seen in minority and less educated populations
Public health vaccine opposition has been growing in recent years in the United States

Public Health Vaccine Opposition Growing in the United States

Inverse association identified between NME rate and MMR vaccine coverage of kindergarteners
The error rate in speech recognition-assisted documentation is 7.4 percent

Error Rate 7.4 Percent in Speech Recognition-Assisted Notes

Overall, 15.8 percent of errors at level of speech recognition-assisted notes involve clinical info
The U.S. military has reinvented trauma care

Recent Years Have Seen U.S. Military Reinventing Trauma Care

Redesigned tourniquets supplied to front-line soldiers; surgical teams positioned far forward