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For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes Vary by Time to CPR

Increase in asystole, decrease in pVT/VF, PEA with delay in time from collapse to CPR
A pilot church-based diabetes self-management intervention in a Latino community is associated with improvement in lifestyle factors that affect diabetes risk

Church-Based Intervention Linked to Healthy Lifestyle Changes

Associated with decreased high-fat food consumption, increased physical activity
Exchanging one sugar-sweetened beverage for water or unsweetened coffee or tea daily could lower diabetes risk by up to 25 percent

Drop Just One Sugar-Sweetened Drink Daily, Drop DM Risk Greatly

Drinking water, unsweetened tea or coffee instead lowered risk by 25 percent
Raplixa (human fibrin sealant) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help control bleeding during surgery

FDA Approves Raplixa to Help Control Surgical Bleeding

Spray-dried fibrin sealant promotes clotting when other methods are 'ineffective or impractical'

April 2015 Briefing – Nursing

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Nursing for April 2015. This roundup includes the latest...
The indications for cervical cancer screening in asymptomatic average-risk women are described in a best practice advice article published online April 30 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Physicians Show Low Adherence to Cervical CA Screening Recs

For average-risk women, screening should start at age 21 years, be performed every three years
Articles relating to atrial fibrillation

High-Value Research of 2014 Presented for Internal Medicine

Authors summarize studies published in 2014 that are relevant to practice of general internal medicine
An investigational serogroup B meningococcal vaccine seems to have protected vaccinated individuals from the disease during an outbreak

Investigational MenB Vaccine Can Protect Individuals in Outbreak

No serogroup B meningococcal disease cases in those who received MenB vaccine in university outbreak
For patients with anogenital warts

Sodium Nitrate, Citric Acid Effective for Anogenital Warts

High-dose treatment linked to improvement in complete clinical clearance at 12 weeks
Black and Hispanic patients are significantly less likely to initiate hemodialysis with arteriovenous fistula

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Arteriovenous Fistula Use

Lower odds of initiating hemodialysis with AVF for black, Hispanic versus white patients