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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest tracking suggests that although gonorrhea resistance to the antibiotic treatment cefixime declined between 2011 and 2013

CDC: Gonorrhea Showing More Resistance to Cefixime

Other effective treatments remain available, but finding is cause for concern
More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs

Prescription Medication Use on the Rise in the United States

Many adults take five or more medications, often for preventable ills
Panel management

AMA: 6 Steps to Help Ensure Patients Get Preventive Care

Panel management helps physicians provide preventive and chronic care to all patients
Financial and other factors should be considered before physicians change career direction

Doctors Should Consider Financial Factors Before Career Change

Issues to consider include cost of career change, ability to use Internet to monetize skills
Stem/progenitor cell assays can predict wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers

Stem/Progenitor Cells Can Predict Wound Healing

Assays during first weeks of care can predict wound healing in patients with diabetic foot ulcers
Triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori can cause erythema multiforme

H. pylori Triple Therapy Linked to Erythema Multiforme

Case report describes 69-year-old who developed EM after seven days of triple antibiotic therapy
Late age at natural menopause and menopausal hormone therapy use are associated with increased risk of basal cell carcinoma

Age at Menopause, Hormone Therapy Linked to BCC Risk

Increased risk with late age at natural menopause and with any use of menopausal hormone therapy
New electronic health record regulations modify Stage 2 of the meaningful use program and finalize requirements for Stage 3

New Electronic Health Record Regulations Released

New regulations modify Stage 2 of meaningful use program and finalize requirements for Stage 3

October 2015 Briefing – Pathology

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Pathology for October 2015. This roundup includes the latest...
Prediabetes is associated with incident cardiovascular disease

Prediabetes Linked to Incident Cardiovascular Disease

In U.K. cohort, association varied with ethnicity and with prediabetes definition criterion