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Young children have the highest rates for chemical ocular injuries

Young Children in Highest Risk Group for Chemical Eye Injuries

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Chemical eye injuries most often occur in residential locations, among those in lower income quartiles
About one-third of pediatric patients with concussion experience symptom spikes over the consecutive days

About One-Third Have Symptom Spikes After Peds Concussion

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Risk of symptom spikes increased with an abrupt increase in mental activity from one day to next
A committee sanctioned by the American Thoracic Society has developed conditional guidelines for the diagnostic evaluation of infants with recurrent or persistent wheezing

ATS Issues Conditional Guidance for Persistent Infantile Wheezing

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More research is needed that measures clinical outcomes in order to recommend interventions
Some health care systems are opening tiny hospitals which provide comprehensive emergency services but may have fewer than a dozen inpatient beds

‘Microhospitals’ Can Provide Quicker Access to Care

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Microhospitals may offer outpatient surgery, primary care, other services, as well as emergency care
The Amish environment seems to provide protection against asthma and allergic sensitization

Amish Farm Environment May Protect Children From Asthma

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Amish, Hutterite children have profound differences in proportions, phenotypes, functions of immune cells
An off-site central monitoring unit applying standardized cardiac telemetry is associated with detection and notification of cardiac rhythm and rate changes before emergency response team activation

Standardized Cardiac Telemetry IDs Cardiac Rhythm Change

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Use of telemetry with off-site central monitoring unit linked to detection of cardiac rhythm, rate changes
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