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Yoga may be effective as a complementary or adjunct therapy for patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs

Yoga May Help With Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms, Severity

RA patients assigned to yoga plus DMARD therapy also had a drop in depression symptoms
After adjustment for family-related factors and gestational age

Lower Birth Weight May Up Risk for Psychiatric Disorders

ADHD, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression tied to birth weight in sibling pairs
Sinks next to toilets in hospital patient rooms may be reservoirs for Klebsiella pneumonia carbapenemase

Sinks by Toilets in ICU Patient Rooms Harbor Harmful Bacteria

Klebsiella pneumonia carbapenemase more common in sinks near toilets
A dynamic pattern of coordinated and anticoordinated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals can characterize healthy individuals and minimally conscious patients

Functional MRI Patterns Indicate Consciousness, Unconsciousness

Brains of unresponsive patients mainly have pattern of low interareal phase coherence
In 2017

Health Care Spending Per Person Increased to $5,641 in 2017

Spending per person increased 4.2 percent from 2016 to 2017; utilization increased 0.5 percent
From 2017 to 2018

CDC: Student Tobacco Use Increased From 2017 to 2018

E-cigarette use up 77.8 percent among high school students, 48.5 percent among middle schoolers

American Stroke Association, Feb. 6-8

The American Heart Association International Stroke Conference 2019 The annual International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) was held...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that clinicians provide or refer counseling interventions for pregnant or postpartum women at increased risk for perinatal depression. This recommendation forms the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Feb. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

USPSTF Recommends Counseling to Prevent Perinatal Depression

Clinicians should provide counseling or referral to high-risk pregnant, postpartum women
Increased bonus size for physicians caring for patients with chronic disease is associated with improvements in care quality

Larger Physician Bonus May Improve Care in Chronic Disease

No further improvement seen with behavioral economic principles of increased social pressure, loss aversion
For adults with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Direct-Acting Antivirals Cut Mortality in Chronic Hepatitis C

Mortality, hepatocellular carcinoma risk reduced after adjustment for potential confounders