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Data mining coupled with laboratory experiments can identify QT interval-prolonging drug-drug interactions

Data Mining, Experiments ID QT Prolonging Drug Interactions

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Patients taking ceftriaxone and lansoprazole have significantly longer QTc intervals
A home-based cognitive-behavioral training program for sleep during late pregnancy is feasible and effective

Home-Based CBT Program for Sleep Feasible in Pregnancy

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Sleep duration longer, less sleep disruption for intervention group, especially postpartum
Admission to a nurse-practitioner-staffed medical intensive care unit (ICU) is not associated with increased mortality compared with admission to a resident-staffed medical ICU

Mortality Not Up at Nurse-Practitioner-Staffed ICU

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No increase in ICU mortality, in-hospital mortality compared with resident-staffed ICU admissions
For women with a prior preterm birth

Early Births Down With 17α-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate

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Reduction in delivery at less than 24 weeks of gestation compared with cerclage alone
Narrow-network health insurance plans have lower monthly premiums than larger-network plans

Lower Monthly Premiums for Narrow-Network Plans

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Extra-small-network plan has less expensive monthly premium than large-network plan
Crohn's disease appears to have at least two distinct genetic subtypes

Two Genetic Subtypes of Crohn’s Disease Identified

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Findings may help explain why the disease is so tough to treat, researchers say
A type of smokeless tobacco called snus may increase a prostate cancer patient's mortality risk

Snus Use Tied to Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer Mortality

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Safety of the smokeless tobacco product called into question
A new active Zika transmission zone was declared Thursday by Florida health officials

New Active Zika Transmission Area in Miami-Dade County

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News comes just weeks after another neighborhood was declared free of virus
The multiple sclerosis drug alemtuzumab

Alemtuzumab May Reverse Some Disability in Newly-Diagnosed MS

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Alemtuzumab modifies disability measures favorably compared with SC IFN-β-1a
Having a large waistline

High BMI, Large Waist, T2DM Tied to Increased Odds of Liver Cancer

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Study adds support to liver cancer as an obesity-associated cancer