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The number of private health insurance claims for Americans addicted to opioids and heroin rose 3

Opioid-Related Insurance Claims Rise 3,000 Percent

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Present crisis disproportionately affecting white, middle-class people in non-urban settings
Opioid users may be misusing and abusing gabapentin

Some Opioid Users May Be Taking Gabapentin Without an Rx

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Findings reveal need for more robust testing
For patients with a history of lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Bleeding Risk Up With Aspirin After Lower GI Bleeding

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But continued aspirin use is associated with reduced risk of serious cardiovascular events and death
Different approaches to the treatment of opioid-use disorders are addressed in an article published in the July 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Physician Reviews Approaches to Treating Opioid-Use Disorders

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Medically-supervised withdrawal is not usually sufficient to induce long-term recovery

July 2016 Briefing – Emergency Medicine

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Emergency Medicine for July 2016. This roundup includes the...
European health systems are requiring an increase in cost-sharing measures for patients 50 years of age and older

European Countries Implementing Cost-Sharing

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Some financial protections are in place for poorer populations
As trampoline parks spring up across the United States

Injuries Up As Trampoline Parks Become More Popular

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Fractures, sprains the most common injuries
The number of local transmissions of the Zika virus in South Florida has apparently increased to 14

Locally-Transmitted Zika Infection Count in Miami Up to 14

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Health experts warn pregnant women to avoid downtown neighborhood
Getting U.S. teens out of the driver's seat before midnight would reduce their risk of fatal crashes

CDC Calls for Tighter Restrictions on Teen Nighttime Driving

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Midnight cut-off is too late to help; 10 p.m. would prevent more injuries
Pancreaticoduodenectomy is associated with high costs at safety-net hospitals

Pancreaticoduodenectomy Costs High at Safety-Net Hospitals

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Marked cost savings with redistribution of patients from high- to medium- or low-burden hospitals