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Successful weight maintenance may be more likely with a series of post-diet coaching sessions conducted mostly by phone

Maintenance Intervention Improves Long-Term Weight Loss

Coaching sessions seem to help patients keep from regaining the weight
Nearly one-quarter of enrollees in a U.S. managed care network who visit the emergency department for an ocular condition have a nonurgent condition

One in Four Ocular ER Visits for Nonurgent Conditions

Risk of visiting ER for nonurgent ocular conditions down for those with established eye care provider
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a rule in relation to new reforms intended to stabilize individual and small group health insurance markets for 2018.

CMS Rule Set to Stabilize Small Health Insurance Markets

Rule includes special enrollment period pre-enrollment verification, flexibility in level of cover
For breast cancer survivors

Exercise Most Important Lifestyle Change for Breast CA Survivors

Those who exercised were about 40 percent less likely to die from disease, review suggests
Testosterone treatment can boost bone density and reduce anemia in older men with low levels of the hormone

Trials Highlight Benefits, Risks of Testosterone Treatment

While trials show it boosts bone density and lowers anemia risk, heart risks also seen
For patients with hospitalization for heart failure

Readmission Common After Hospitalization for Heart Failure

Cardiac causes are most common etiology of readmissions, accounting for nearly half of them
In two policy statements published online Feb. 20 in Pediatrics

AAP Policy Statement Focuses on Child Witness Well-Being

Second policy statement develops recommendations for pediatricians relating to expert testimony
An internet-delivered physical therapist-prescribed home exercise and pain-coping skills training intervention is beneficial for individuals with chronic knee pain

Internet-Delivered Exercise, Pain-Coping Skills Alleviate Knee Pain

Clinically meaningful improvements in pain, function with home exercise and pain-coping skills training
From 2004 to 2012 there was a decrease in postpartum depressive symptoms

Postpartum Depressive Symptoms Fell in 2004 to 2012

Prevalence highest among new mothers age ≤19, 20 to 24 years; unmarried mothers; postpartum smokers
Patients addicted to opioids treated in a hospital emergency department do better when they receive medication to reduce opioid cravings

Patients With Opioid Addiction Benefit From Tx Initiated in ER

Giving drugs to reduce cravings appears to be effective option, researchers find