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An adverse childhood family environment is associated with cardiovascular disease incidence and all-cause mortality later in life

Adverse Childhood Environment Tied to Later Health Problems

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Increased risk for all-cause mortality remained significant in fully adjusted model
Even in very frail people

Blood Pressure Treatment Even Effective in Frail Older Adults

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Survival benefit seen in all adherent older people, but healthier older people survived longer
A partnership that would bypass the drug industry to sell a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus has been formed by a laboratory at Imperial College London.

Partnership Would Bypass Drug Industry to Sell COVID-19 Vaccine

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Vaccine could be sold without profits or licensing fees in Britain and low- and middle-income countries
An educational video may better inform advanced cancer patients and their caregivers about hospice care

Educational Video May Effectively Inform Families About Hospice Care

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Video associated with greater hospice knowledge, lower likelihood to feel that hospice is only about death
A Kawasaki-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome

Kawasaki-Like Disease More Common in Children of African Ancestry

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Kawasaki-like inflammatory syndrome temporally linked to SARS-CoV-2 marked by GI symptoms
Skin psoriasis and somatic comorbidity are associated with onset of psychiatric illness

Skin Psoriasis, Somatic Comorbidity Up Psychiatric Illness

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Risk increased for patients with psoriasis with somatic comorbidity, but no synergistic association seen
Suicide ideation complaints to the emergency department decreased during the "stay at home" order for COVID-19

Encounters for Suicidal Ideation in ED Down During ‘Stay at Home’

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Findings seen in large multicenter system; percentage of alcohol complaints higher among behavioral health visits
Risk for newborn respiratory distress increases in a dose-response manner in association with maternal use of prenatal antidepressants

Newborn Respiratory Distress Up With Maternal Antidepressant Use

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Moderate, high sustained prenatal antidepressant use associated with increased risk for preterm birth
Combining coronary artery calcium score with self-reported physical activity may help predict mortality risk for older adults

CAC Score, Physical Activity May Help Predict Mortality in Seniors

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For patients with high coronary artery calcium score, mortality up with decreasing physical activity
During the current new coronavirus pandemic

Anesthesiologists Shift Practice From OR to ICU During Pandemic

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Given drop in elective and nonemergency procedures, two-thirds of practices shifted to critical care