Children of Immigrants Less Likely to be Up-to-Date on Shots
Children with at least one foreign-born parent less likely to be up-to-date at ages 2, 6, 18, 36 months
Ohio Upholds Law Requiring HIV-Infected to Tell Sex Partners
State's high court unanimously upholds law's constitutionality; appeal to U.S. Supreme Court likely
Depressive Symptoms Increase During Internship Year
Significantly greater increase seen among women; sex disparity partly due to work-family conflict
Fish Can Trigger Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome
75.03 percent of children undergoing oral food challenge achieved tolerance to some kind of fish
Incretin Tied to Better Outcomes in NOCS-Diabetes
Prognosis for T2DM patients with NSTEMI, coronary artery stenosis improves with incretin
ERs Contribute Large Portion of Medical Care Delivery
Percentage of care delivered by emergency departments increased between 1996 and 2010
Gifts From Pharma Companies Influence Prescribing Behavior
Clinicians who receive gifts write more prescriptions per patient, more costly and branded prescriptions
Chewing Ticagrelor Loading Dose May Be Beneficial in STEMI
Chewing facilitates better early platelet inhibition compared with standard oral loading dose
Diabetes Tied to Worse Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients
However, long-term prognosis has improved in heart failure patients regardless of diabetes status
Secondary Prevention Meds Often Not Started Post-AMI in Seniors
More than a third of older nursing home residents did not start medication after myocardial infarction