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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched an initiative to examine which provider regulations should be discarded or revamped amid concerns that the regulations are reducing the amount of time that physicians spend with patients

CMS Launches Initiative to Examine Impact of Regulations

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Officials set to travel country gathering information on impact of their regulations on physicians
For former collegiate and professional football players

Football Career Length, Position Affect White Matter Structure

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Career duration, playing position may modify the effects of concussion history in ex-football players
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the culprit lesion is associated with better 30-day outcomes than immediate multivessel PCI among patients with multivessel coronary artery disease and acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock

Culprit-Lesion-Only PCI Tied to Improved 30-Day Outcomes

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Linked to lower risk of mortality compared to multivessel PCI in patients with acute MI and multivessel CAD
Fentanyl was involved in more than half of opioid overdose deaths reported in the second half of 2016

Fentanyl or Analogs Tied to More Than Half of All Opioid Deaths

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And 57 percent of fentanyl-related deaths also tested positive for other drugs, such as heroin
Children up to age 36 months with at least one foreign-born parent are less likely to be up-to-date on recommended vaccinations

Children of Immigrants Less Likely to be Up-to-Date on Shots

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Children with at least one foreign-born parent less likely to be up-to-date at ages 2, 6, 18, 36 months
The Ohio Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a law requiring HIV-infected individuals to tell their sexual partners of their status before having sex

Ohio Upholds Law Requiring HIV-Infected to Tell Sex Partners

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State's high court unanimously upholds law's constitutionality; appeal to U.S. Supreme Court likely
Depressive symptoms increase during the internship year for training physicians

Depressive Symptoms Increase During Internship Year

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Significantly greater increase seen among women; sex disparity partly due to work-family conflict
Fish is an important trigger of food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome

Fish Can Trigger Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome

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75.03 percent of children undergoing oral food challenge achieved tolerance to some kind of fish
Incretin treatment appears to improve non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and non-obstructive coronary artery stenosis

Incretin Tied to Better Outcomes in NOCS-Diabetes

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Prognosis for T2DM patients with NSTEMI, coronary artery stenosis improves with incretin
Emergency departments are increasingly a major source of medical care in the United States

ERs Contribute Large Portion of Medical Care Delivery

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Percentage of care delivered by emergency departments increased between 1996 and 2010