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Patients express satisfaction with telehealth primary care video visits

Patients Satisfied With Telehealth Primary Care Visits

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Main cited benefits include convenience, decreased costs; privacy, adequate physical exam are concerns
One measurement of plasma glycated CD59 in pregnancy can predict glucose intolerance

Biomarker ID’d for Pregnancy-Induced Glucose Intolerance

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Plasma glycated CD59 measurement at 24 to 28 weeks can identify women with failed GCT, GDM
Medicaid patients have slightly longer waits at medical appointments than those with private insurance

Outpatient Wait Times Are Longer for Medicaid Recipients

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Researchers suggest lag time might be due to providers having larger caseloads
A Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative does not reduce readmission rates or costs among patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Bundled Payment Initiative Doesn’t Cut Readmission in COPD

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Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement doesn't cut costs in COPD exacerbation
The number of reproductive-aged women with past or present hepatitis C virus infection is increasing

HCV Infection Increasing in Reproductive-Aged Women

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Doubling in number of women with past or present HCV infection in NNDSS from 2006 to 2014
From 2001 to 2010

Postmarket Safety Events for 32 Percent of Novel Therapeutics

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Thirty-two percent of 222 FDA approved novel therapeutics from 2001 to 2010 were affected
For patients with type 2 diabetes and vitamin D deficiency

Vitamin D Doesn’t Impact Insulin Sensitivity, Secretion in T2DM

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No difference between or within groups in insulin sensitivity, glycemic control with vitamin D3, placebo
Thousands of children visit U.S. emergency departments every year for ear injuries caused by cotton swabs

Cotton Swab-Related Ear Injuries Continue to Be Seen in the ER

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An estimated 12,500 U.S. children are injured every year after misuse, researchers say
There is no link between low body mass index and risk of Alzheimer's disease

Low Body Mass Index Not Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease

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Gene-based research suggests that, instead, weight loss probably due to early stages of disease
U.S. women traveling to areas where the Zika virus is circulating might be less likely to be infected than expected

Risk of Zika Infection Appears to Be Low for Pregnant Women

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U.S. study found only one of 185 who traveled to active areas tested positive, and baby wasn't infected