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Clinician communication and prescribing behavior reinforce parents' understanding of antibiotic treatment

Doctor Communication Supports Parents’ Beliefs About Antibiotics

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Antibiotic prescriptions confirm parents' beliefs about what indicates illness severity
Xalkori (crizotinib) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with tumors that have a rare ROS1 gene mutation.

FDA Approves Xalkori for Rare Genetic Form of Lung Cancer

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Drug approval expanded to include patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC
The 21-gene recurrence score (Oncotype DX) seems to accurately identify women with early-stage breast cancer who don't need chemotherapy

Gene Test IDs Breast CA Patients Who May Not Need Chemo

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Analysis can help women who won't benefit from additional treatment to avoid side effects
Severe migraines are associated with an increased risk of complications during pregnancy and childbirth

AAN: Preeclampsia, LBW Up With Severe Migraine While Pregnant

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Women older than 35 appear most at risk, researchers find
Patients with diabetes may be significantly more likely to develop community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia than those without diabetes

Diabetes Patients More Susceptible to Staph Bacteremia

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Risk up seven-fold among patients with type 1 diabetes, almost three-fold for those with type 2
Sleep-disordered breathing has a deleterious impact in children

Apnea Impacts Neurocognitive Function in Children

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Those with higher apnea-hypopnea index more impaired than those with lower AHI
There is stronger evidence of a link between the herbicide Agent Orange and bladder cancer and hypothyroidism among U.S. military personnel exposed to the chemical during the Vietnam War

Evidence Links Agent Orange to Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism

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Also, veterans with Parkinson's-like symptoms can file claim for the condition
Expensive medications are being given far more often to elderly patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Elderly With Advanced CRC Often Get Costly, Unnecessary Tx

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Medications come with many side effects, may add only one month to survival, researchers say
The CYP3A7*1C allele appears to be associated with mortality and disease progression in specific cancers

CYP3A7*1C Allele Linked to Cancer Mortality, Progression

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Associated with adverse outcomes in breast cancer, lung cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Certain measures of air pollution correlate with dry eye disease

Measures of Air Pollution Linked to Dry Eye Disease

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Higher ozone levels and lower humidity levels linked to DED, but no correlation seen for PM10