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Employee use of a price transparency tool does not cut health care spending

Price Transparency Tool Doesn’t Cut Health Care Spending

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Small percentage of eligible employees used the tool when offered
For older women

Herpes Simplex Virus Linked to Frailty, Mortality

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Only HSV-2 independently predicts five-year mortality risk in older women aged 70 to 79 years
Physician leaders with good leadership qualities are more likely to have employees who are satisfied and do not show signs of burnout

Physician Leadership Training May Help Counteract Burnout

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Leadership ratings strongly linked to employee burnout and satisfaction
Experiments in mosquitoes suggest that bacteria may help curb the spread of the Zika virus

Bacterium Blocks Zika Virus Isolates in Aedes Mosquitoes

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Infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia lowers, inactivates levels of virus in their bodies, saliva
About one-fifth of Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone developed severe or total vision loss within weeks of being declared free of the virus

ARVO: Ebola Survivors May Be Left With Visual Impairment

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One in five developed severe or total vision loss within weeks of recovery in Sierra Leone study
European residents have access to the same health care services as U.S. residents but pay much less

Report: Why Health Care Costs Are Lower in Europe Than U.S.

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Main reason for price difference is national system that negotiates with medical providers
The addition of antiviral therapy to sorafenib is a cost-effective option compared with sorafenib monotherapy in patients with advanced hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma in China

Adding Antiviral to Sorafenib Is Cost-Effective in HCC

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More cost-effective than sorafenib monotherapy for HBV-related cancer
Nearly one-third of the antibiotics prescribed in the United States aren't appropriate for the conditions being treated

Still Too Many Antibiotic Prescriptions Being Written

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One in three prescriptions deemed unnecessary
Respiratory and viral infections in the first six months of life may increase the odds of a child developing type 1 diabetes by nearly 20 percent

Infant Viral Infections Might Raise Risk of Type 1 Diabetes

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Higher odds of type 1 diabetes in children who had respiratory, viral infections in first six months of life

April 2016 Briefing – Infectious Disease

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Infectious Disease for April 2016. This roundup includes the...