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For overweight and obese women with type 2 diabetes

Switching Diet Drinks for Water Benefits Overweight Women

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Greater decrease in weight, body mass index, fasting plasma glucose, fasting insulin, HOMA-IR
For older adults

Acidic Skin Care Product Beneficial in Older Adults

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Increase in lipid lamellae in the intercellular space of the stratum corneum of the treated area
More than 90 percent of men in Sweden who have very low-risk prostate cancer choose close monitoring rather than immediate treatment -- and more American men should use that option

Surveillance Rates on Rise in Low-Risk Prostate Cancer

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In Sweden, 90 percent with very low-risk disease choose this option instead of immediate treatment
Children 14 and younger require only two doses of the human papillomavirus vaccine rather than the previously recommended three doses

CDC: Two Doses of HPV Vaccine Sufficient for Children Under 15

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But agency's revised guidelines still recommend three doses for 15- to 26-year-olds

American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Oct. 15-19

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The 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine The annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine was held...

American College of Gastroenterology, Oct. 14-19

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The American College of Gastroenterology's 81st Annual Scientific Meeting The annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology was held from Oct. 14...
Patients who knowingly took a placebo pill while undergoing traditional treatment for lower back pain had less pain and disability than those who received traditional treatment alone

Open-Label Placebo Treatments Can Ease Chronic Low Back Pain

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Patients knew they were taking a placebo and still obtained relief, researchers say
Healthy living can lower the odds for colorectal cancer for men who are at high genetic risk for the disease

Men With Genetic Risk of CRC May Lower Risk Via Healthy Lifestyle

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Adopting healthy lifestyle can cut 25-year risk for the disease from 29 to 13 percent
Traumatic injury is not a main driver for continued opioid use in patients who were not taking opioids prior to their injuries

ACS: Opioid Rx After Severe Injury Not Tied to Long-Term Use

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Only 1 percent still took opioids one year after hospital discharge
About one of every six patients hospitalized for a first episode of syncope has a pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary Embolism May Be Cause of Syncope in Some Elderly

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Identified in nearly one of every six patients