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More Medicaid-covered children are receiving treatments that conform to practice standards for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Increase in Evidence-Based Practice for Children With ADHD

Findings based upon publicly-insured children from 2001 to 2010
Some health care systems are opening tiny hospitals which provide comprehensive emergency services but may have fewer than a dozen inpatient beds

‘Microhospitals’ Can Provide Quicker Access to Care

Microhospitals may offer outpatient surgery, primary care, other services, as well as emergency care
Sickle cell trait is not associated with a higher risk of death than absence of the trait

Sickle Cell Trait Doesn’t Up Mortality Risk in U.S. Soldiers

However, SC trait was linked with significantly higher risk of exertional rhabdomyolysis
The number of private health insurance claims for Americans addicted to opioids and heroin rose 3

Opioid-Related Insurance Claims Rise 3,000 Percent

Present crisis disproportionately affecting white, middle-class people in non-urban settings
Opioid users may be misusing and abusing gabapentin

Some Opioid Users May Be Taking Gabapentin Without an Rx

Findings reveal need for more robust testing
Patients with impaired glucose tolerance face an increased risk of mortality

Mortality Up With Impaired Glucose Tolerance

Much of the increase associated with impaired glucose tolerance due to progression to diabetes
The incidence of hand

Overweight/Obesity Up Incidence of Hand, Hip, Knee Osteoarthritis

Being overweight or obese increases incidence of OA, especially in the knee
Women with vaginal mesh with complications have a significantly increased proinflammatory response

Proinflammatory Response in Women With Vaginal Mesh

Significantly higher M1/M2 cytokines, chemokines, MMP-9 and -2 in women with mesh-vagina explants
For patients with allergic rhinitis

House Dust Mite Immunotherapy Effective for Allergic Rhinitis

Large randomized trial in Japan shows improvement in Average Adjusted Symptom Score
A third dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is recommended in cases of mumps outbreak in which transmission is sustained despite high two-dose MMR coverage

Third Dose of MMR Vaccine Can Help Control Mumps Outbreaks

CDC advised third dose in recent outbreak with transmission despite high two-dose coverage