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For adult patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation

Pre-Transplant Depression May Impair Post-HCT Outcomes

Pre-transplant depression tied to lower overall survival, higher risk of acute GVHD in allogeneic HCT
Strategies to help overweight or obese women limit their weight gain during pregnancy don't seem to alleviate the risk for obstetric complications

SMFM: No Benefit to Limiting Pregnancy Weight Gain in Obese

Research suggests obesity's effects on a pregnancy may begin before conception
Inactivity is associated with greater risk of prediabetes and diabetes

Prediabetes Linked to Sedentary Lifestyle, Even in Slim Adults

Sedentary lifestyle often overlooked when thinking in terms of healthy weight, researcher says
A new approach to alter the gut microbiome and virome may be an effective treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder

Microbiota Transfer Therapy Could Help Children With Autism

Preliminary research finds benefits from the new approach in young patients with ASD
For overweight or obese adults

Review: Intentional Weight Loss Improves Daytime Sleepiness

Large improvement in daytime sleepiness with surgical weight loss interventions
For patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Economic Benefit for Combo Statin/TG-Specific Tx in T2DM

Greatest cost reduction for statin/TG-specific-treated patients with TG level drop of ≥30 percent
Depression is common among kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis

Nephrologists Often Don’t Treat Depression in Dialysis Patients

Also, many dialysis patients do not wish to receive aggressive treatment for their depression
Short-term memory loss may be yet another price of America's opioid addiction epidemic

Unusual Amnestic Syndrome Seen With Opioid Abuse

Drug abuse may cause an unusual short-term memory syndrome
An average 6.1 million physician visits in 2012 to 2013 were made by children aged 4 to 17 with a primary diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

U.S. Children Make Over 6 Million Office Visits/Year for ADHD

Number represents 6 percent of all children's visits to the doctor in 2012-2013
Heart failure rates are increasing in the United States

Rates of Heart Failure Rising in the United States

And cardiovascular disease remains the nation's leading cause of death