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Warning letters about products illegally marketed as treatments for opioid addiction

FDA Warns Two Companies About Bogus Opioid Addiction Treatment

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Tianeptine-containing dietary supplements can pose a number of health risks
A new scoring system that accounts for "not relevant" responses on the Dermatology Life Quality Index for patients with psoriasis is valid for avoiding bias and can improve access to biologics

Novel Scoring System Can Up Access to Biologics in Psoriasis

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DLQI-R allows more patients to achieve threshold for becoming candidates for biologic treatment
Old age at onset of early rheumatoid arthritis is associated with more frequent bone erosions

Bone Erosions More Frequent With Old Age at Onset of Early RA

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Bone erosions more frequent in those older at early RA onset even if they had clinical remission
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Disability Index for self-report is reliable and valid for measuring disability in inflammatory bowel disease

IBD Disability Index for Self-Report Reliable, Valid

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Item-reduced version with eight questions instead of 28 accounted for 77 percent of variance
Smoke-free policies are associated with small reductions in blood pressure

Smoke-Free Policies Linked to Lower Systolic Blood Pressure

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Lower systolic BP found for those living in areas with public smoke-free policies
Women aged 75 years and older can still benefit from routine mammography

RSNA: Mammography Has Value in Women Age 75 or Older

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Cancer detection rate is 8.4/1,000 exams in older women; 98 percent of cancers surgically excised
During a median follow-up of 6.8 years

Few Mandatory Pediatric Postmarketing Studies Completed

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33.8 percent of mandatory pediatric postmarketing studies completed during 6.8 years of follow-up
An artificial intelligence-based smartphone app can reduce the severity of cancer patients' reported pain and hospital admissions

AI-Based Smartphone App Can Help Cut Cancer Pain Severity

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App can cut both severity of advanced cancer patients' reported pain and hospital admissions
For patients with diabetes

Switching to High-Deductible Insurance Delays Diabetes Care

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Delays in seeking care for first major symptom of macrovascular disease, first major diagnostic test
Implementation of state youth traumatic brain injury (TBI) legislation correlated with an increase in pediatric emergency department utilization for youth sports- and recreation-related  mild TBI evaluation

ED Utilization Up for Pediatric mTBI After TBI Legislation

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Proportion of ED visits increased from five years before to after legislation