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Smoking a water pipe is addictive and can increase the risk for initiating cigarette smoking

Water Pipe Tobacco Smoking Addictive, Harmful to the Heart

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Water pipe tobacco smokers are exposed to level of nicotine that is physiologically active in short term
For hyperphosphatemic patients with chronic kidney disease receiving maintenance hemodialysis

Tenapanor Reduces Elevated Serum Phosphate in CKD

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Adverse events limited to softened stool, modest increase in bowel movement freqeuncy
Almost half of elderly patients newly diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia do not receive treatment

Only About Half of Elderly Newly Diagnosed With ALL Receive Tx

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53.5 percent receive treatment within 90 days; 32.4 percent receive chemo without tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Women with multiple sclerosis seem not to suffer from pregnancy-related relapses in the early postpartum period

AAN: No Increased MS Relapse Risk in Postpartum Period

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Annual relapse rate 0.39 before pregnancy, dropped during pregnancy, rebounded by four to six months
A history of weight cycling

History of Cycling Weight May Up Risk for Heart Disease in Women

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Yo-yo dieting associations with cardiovascular disease stronger in women with no pregnancy history
Preoperative imaging

Surgery for Uncomplicated Appendicitis Typically Yields Satisfactory Outcomes

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Current surgical practice in U.S. adults involves presurgery imaging, laparoscopic approach
Communication between hospitals and home health care is suboptimal

Home Health Clinicians Frequently Lack Access to Hospital Records

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Additionally, patients often not prepared with realistic expectations to receive home health care
Treatment with dasotraline (4 mg/day) significantly improves attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in children aged 6 to 12 years

Dasotraline Promising for the Treatment of ADHD in Children

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Once-daily dosing tolerable, may lessen side effects
Patients with myocardial infarction at age 40 years or younger have similar long-term all-cause and cardiovascular death rates as patients aged older than 40 years

ACC: Long-Term Outcomes for MI Similar at ≤40, 40 to 50

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Patients aged 40 years or younger have increased rates of substance abuse compared with older patients
Children from lower-income households are more likely to report recent childhood gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses but are less likely to miss any school days

CDC: GI, Respiratory Illnesses More Likely in Low-Income Children

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But likelihood of missing any school days during the previous year decreased with reduced income