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Patients Still Risking Eye Damage With Poor Contact Lens Care
Education should focus on informing wearers of common behaviors putting them at risk for infection
F12, STC2 Genes May Help Predict Breast Cancer Survival
Tracking DNA activity patterns may someday help women with HER2+ breast cancers
Calcium Supplements Tied to Dementia Risk in Older Women
Findings even more pronounced in women with cerebrovascular disease
Treating Peanut Allergy Early in Childhood Yields Best Results
Exposure therapy for infants and toddlers leaves 78 percent desensitized
Monogenic Forms of Diabetes Can Occur in Preterm Infants
Sixty-six percent of preterm infants diagnosed with diabetes before age 6 months had genetic etiology
Anemia Tied to Increased Mortality Risk Following Stroke
Higher mortality risk at multiple time points for up to one year after ischemic, hemorrhagic stroke
Depression Often Seen in Patients Discharged From ICU
Risk highest among patients with psych symptoms pre-ICU/psych distress symptoms while in ICU
Revascularization Tops Medical Rx for Intermittent Claudication
Relative improvements over medical cohort in distance, speed, stair climb, pain, quality of life
Diabetes Linked to Increased CVD, Cancer, Other Mortality
Increases in cardiovascular death, cancer death, noncardiovascular noncancer death in men, women
Legal Issues Impact Delivery of Telehealth
No uniform legal approach to telehealth; concerns about reimbursement limit implementation
