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If current HIV rates continue

CDC: One in Two Black Men Who Have Sex With Men May Get HIV

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New national report highlights groups most at risk for the AIDS-causing virus
Fourteen U.S. cases of possible sexual transmission of the Zika virus are now under investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC: 14 Potential New Cases of Zika Sexually Transmitted

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Men who've recently traveled to endemic areas should abstain from sex or use a condom, agency says
A small reduction as the primary composite outcome may not justify the increased adverse events and costs associated with an intervention targeting systolic blood pressure less than 120 mm Hg

Authors Urge Caution Before Adopting New Systolic BP Goals

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Small absolute benefit seen in SPRINT must be balanced with increased adverse event rates
For older adults

Macrolide Antibiotics Not Linked to Ventricular Arrhythmia

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Findings in older adults show macrolide antibiotics are linked to lower risk of all-cause mortality
For patients with chronic low back pain of discogenic origin

AAPM: Intradiscal Biacuplasty Improves Outcomes in LBP

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Clinically superior mean outcome measures with IDB and conservative medical management
Plasma branched-chain amino acids are associated with insulin sensitivity and metabolic clearance rate of insulin

Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acids Linked to Insulin Sensitivity

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Correlation significantly modified by ethnicity; only significant in Caucasians and Hispanics
For patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Women Have Lower Mortality Than Men at One Year After TAVR

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Findings among high-risk and inoperable patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement
For men with localized prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy

Lower 25-OH D Tied to Adverse Pathology in Full Prostatectomy

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Insufficiency/deficiency of serum 25-OH D linked to increased odds of adverse pathology
Benzodiazepine prescriptions and overdose deaths increased considerably from 1996 to 2013

Benzodiazepine Prescriptions Rose From 1996 to 2013

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Overdose death rate also increased but leveled out after 2010
Many lung and esophageal cancer survivors have positron emission tomography imaging scans as part of ongoing monitoring

PET Scans May Be Overused in Monitoring of Cancer Survivors

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Study finds using costly test as first option for follow-up may not improve survival