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How Do Business Partner Data Breaches Affect Your Practice?
Business associate agreements should be prioritized; collaborative policies can help patch attacks
High Costs for Diagnosis, Care of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Costs were significantly higher than total annual costs per matched control with similar comorbidities
Prostate Cancer Treatment Side Effects Linked to Distress
Those with worse emotional distress also report worse urinary, sexual, bowel functions
Digestive Disease Week, June 2-5
Digestive Disease Week 2018 The Digestive Disease Week annual meeting sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American Gastroenterological...
CDC: Prevalence of No Insurance Varies by Occupational Groups
Significant drop in prevalence of uninsured from 2013 to 2014; variation by occupation in both years
Microbiota in Breastfed Infants May Help Prevent Overweight
Elevated risk of overweight for formula-fed infants attenuated with adjustment for gut microbiota
Online Consumer Ratings of Physicians Tend to Be Skewed
Ratings also differ significantly by specialty group
CDC: Office-Based Physician Visit Rates Vary by Patient Age, Sex
Visit rates for females exceeded that for males; rates for infants, seniors exceeded that for those age 1-64
DDW: Psych Disorders Make GERD Hard to Dx by Symptoms Alone
Symptoms are unreliable for establishing presence of reflux in patients with minor psychiatric disorders
DDW: Altruism, Economic Reward Motivate Fecal Donation
Logistics of collecting and transporting feces was recurrent theme impeding stool donation
