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Pricing and availability strategies can improve nutritional quality of purchases from vending machines

Review: Changes in Vending Machines Can Promote Health

Reducing prices and increasing availability increases sales of healthier choices
Taking progesterone supplements in the first trimester of pregnancy may not improve pregnancy outcomes for women with a history of miscarriage

Progesterone May Not Help Prevent Repeat Miscarriage

Live birth rate 65.8 percent for vaginal progesterone, versus 63.3 percent for placebo
Long periods of exposure to air pollution -- including dust and car exhaust -- heightens cardiovascular risks for women with diabetes

Air Pollution Raises CVD Risks in Women With Diabetes

Long-term study showed prolonged exposure linked to cardiovascular disease
For women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus

Animal-Source, Low-Carb Diet Ups T2DM Risk With Past GDM

Increased risk of T2DM for overall low-carbohydrate diet scores and animal LCD scores
For women with early-stage breast cancer

Impact of Recurrence Score Assay Varies With Patient Age

For women with early-stage breast cancer, testing lowers chemo use, costs among women <55 years
For older adults

No Direct Survival Effect for Moderate Drinking in Seniors

Significant correlation for seniors does not persist after adjustment for health status, physical activity
More early-stage cervical cancers have been diagnosed among young U.S. women since a key provision of the Affordable Care Act went into effect

Early-Stage Cervical CA Diagnoses in Young Women Up Since ACA

Provision allowing young adults to stay on parents' insurance may account for more screening
Too few Americans who are at risk for HIV infection are taking Truvada (emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) -- a daily pill that could protect them against the virus

CDC: PrEP Rx Needs to Increase for Optimal HIV Prevention

Medication can prevent infection with the virus in people at high risk
The use of social media channels and associated benefits for physicians are highlighted in a recent article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians. And guidelines are provided for physicians wishing to become active in social media.

AAFP Recommends Doctors Explore Use of Social Media

Guidelines provided for physicians wishing to become more active in social media
Patients at VA hospitals who contracted Clostridium difficile following surgery were five times more likely to die and 12 times more likely to suffer postoperative morbidity

C. Difficile Infection Tied to Higher Risk of Post-Op Mortality

Postoperative complications also increased in this patient population