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Most Americans now support aggressive regulation to keep health care costs in check -- including price caps on drugs

Poll: Americans Want Health Care Costs Kept in Check

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Suggestions include price controls on drugs, hospitals, and doctors
More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs

Prescription Medication Use on the Rise in the United States

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Many adults take five or more medications, often for preventable ills
Endovascular therapy with mechanical thrombectomy in ischemic stroke is superior to standard treatment with tissue plasminogen activator for preserving brain function

Endovascular Tx Beats tPA Alone for Stroke Patients

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Patients who had procedure were more likely to have functional independence after 90 days
The first guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension in children have been published online Nov. 3 in Circulation.

Guidelines Issued for Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension

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New guidelines address classifying the different types of disease, approved treatment methods
Panel management

AMA: 6 Steps to Help Ensure Patients Get Preventive Care

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Panel management helps physicians provide preventive and chronic care to all patients
Financial and other factors should be considered before physicians change career direction

Doctors Should Consider Financial Factors Before Career Change

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Issues to consider include cost of career change, ability to use Internet to monetize skills
Low-fat diets are no more effective than other types of diets for long-term weight loss

Adherence, Not Diet Type, Predicts Long-Term Weight Loss

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Low-fat diets no more effective than higher-fat diets, researchers say
Regular consumption of soda or sweetened fruit drinks may increase risk for heart failure in men

Sweetened Drinks Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Failure

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Findings for two servings or more daily in men
For elderly patients with hypertension

Benefits, Harms of HTN Drugs Should be Considered for Elderly

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Untreated hypertension linked to morbidity, mortality; potential harms associated with treatment
Anesthetists make a negligible contribution to post-cardiac surgery mortality

Negligible Impact of Anesthetists on Post-Cardiac Surgery Mortality

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Overwhelming factor associated with outcome was patient risk; surgeon had moderate impact