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The feeling that life is filled with worthwhile activities may promote healthier aging and help sustain meaningful relationships

Feeling Life Is Worthwhile Linked to Healthier Aging

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Feeling tied to stronger relationships, greater social engagement and prosperity, less loneliness
For extremely preterm infants

Single-Family Rooms May Benefit Very Preterm Infants

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Reduced sepsis, increased breastfeeding rates observed; no difference in neurodevelopment vs. open bay units
Strict local tobacco retail licensing regulation may lower rates of cigarette and electronic cigarette use among youth and young adults

Strict Ordinances Tied to Lower Youth Tobacco Use

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Jurisdictions with most restrictive ordinances had lowest odds of ever cigarette use, past 30-day use
Eliminating the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate penalty is unlikely to destabilize the individual market in California but could roll back coverage gains

ACA Coverage Gains Could Erode Without Individual Mandate

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However, individual market in California not expected to destabilize because of mandate penalty
The overall cancer death rate decreased continuously by 27 percent from 1991 to 2016

Cancer Death Rate in U.S. Decreased Continuously From 1991 to 2016

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Socioeconomic inequalities are widening, but racial gap in cancer mortality narrowing slowly
Children receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for ≥48 hours often experience muscle atrophy

Muscle Atrophy Occurs Rapidly in Critically Ill, Ventilated Children

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47 percent of cohort experienced ≥11 percent decrease in diaphragm thickness after six days
Compared with men

Women With CVD Have Worse Self-Reported Outcomes

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Women with atherosclerosis also report lower aspirin, statin use and higher ED use versus men
Prescribed opioids are associated with an increased risk for community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization among persons with and without HIV

Rx Opioids Up Pneumonia Risk in Patients With, Without HIV

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Risk greatest with higher-dose opioids and opioids with immunosuppressive properties
Screening donated blood for Zika virus is cost-effective only in the high mosquito season in Puerto Rico

Screening Donated Blood for Zika Not Cost-Effective

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Universal mini-pool nucleic acid testing only during high mosquito activity cost-effective in Puerto Rico
For patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis

Rituximab Beneficial in Secondary Progressive MS

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Treatment with rituximab linked to lower Expanded Disability Status Scale score, delayed progression