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About half of U.S. doctors received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries in 2015

Half of U.S. Doctors Receive Payments From Industry

And, market share for brand-name drugs down at hospitals with sales restrictions

April 2017 Briefing – Infectious Disease

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Infectious Disease for April 2017. This roundup includes the...
Use of macrolides

Common Antibiotics May Increase Risk of Miscarriage

Certain medications seem safer than others, but overall danger is low, researchers say
Distinct bacterial taxa are seen in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome subgroups

Distinct Bacterial Taxa in ME/CSF Subgroups With/Without IBS

IBS co-morbidity is top driving factor in separation of topological networks based on bacterial profiles
Invited speakers at medical conferences tend to be disproportionately male

Meeting Organizers Overlooking Qualified Female Scientists

Active generation of lists of potential speakers, assessment of qualifications can address bias

EHR Documentation May Help in Harm Reduction Initiatives

EHR-based initiative tied to more than 30 percent reduction in harm for hospital-acquired infections
Physician burnout factors include control

Risk Factors in Six Areas Tied to Physician Burnout

Tool gauging burnout focuses on workload, control, rewards, community, fairness, values
A proposal to replace private insurance with government-funded health care for all moved forward in California on Wednesday as Democrats on the Senate Health Committee voted to advance the measure.

Single-Payer Health System Bill Moves Forward in California

Not yet clear where money for the single-payer system would come from
Deep learning with deep convolutional neural networks can result in accurate detection of tuberculosis on chest radiographs

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Accurately Detect TB

Ensemble of AlexNet and GoogLeNet was best-performing classifier, with AUC of 0.99
The prescription drug abuse epidemic in the United States might be associated with a higher mortality rate than has been reported previously

CDC: Opioid-Related Mortality Rate Might Be Underestimated

Death certificates from drug-linked infections may not label opioids as possible cause