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Patients with insurance that covers computed tomographic colonography are nearly 50 percent more likely to get screened for colorectal cancer

Screening Up When Insurance Covers CT Colonography

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Patients whose insurance covered CT colonography were 48 percent more likely to be screened
Emergency department physicians need new criteria for diagnosing infection among older adults

New Criteria Urged for Infection Diagnosis Among Seniors in ER

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Emergency department physicians often under and over diagnose infections in older adults
Utilization of health services was largely unchanged from 1996-1997 to 2011-2012

Health Service Use Unchanged From 1996-1997 to 2011-2012

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Expenditures for various categories of medical services increased in almost every category assessed
Health care providers should offer routine screening for dysmenorrhea

Many Women Not Seeking Care for Dysmenorrhea

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Reasons include assuming symptoms were normal or tolerable, thinking providers wouldn't offer help
Suitable cognitive screening tools can be used by pharmacists during home medication review

Cognitive Screening Tools Can Be Used in Home Medication Review

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Anxiety and depression checklist, and 'worried about your memory' tools can be self-administered
For patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer who attend a multidisciplinary clinic

Decisional Regret Doesn’t Differ by Treatment in Prostate Cancer

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Only African-American race was associated with greater regret across time
For patients with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea

No Signs of Abuse Potential for Eluxadoline in IBS With Diarrhea

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Data from three randomized trials show no signs of abuse potential for 75, 100 mg eluxadoline
Few individuals with history of a mental health or substance use condition

Most Firearm Suicides Not Tied to Mental Illness, Substance Use

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Only 4.1 percent of those who have previously attempted suicide died by suicide with a firearm
The 2011 tsunami in Japan was associated with an increase in fatal myocardial infarction in the high-impact zone

2011 Tsunami in Japan Had Lasting Impact on Fatal MI

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Increase in fatal myocardial infarction in high-impact zone in 2011 continued through 2014
There is a causal relationship between increasing body mass index and asthma and decreased lung function

Increasing BMI Causally Linked to Asthma, Not Hay Fever

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Significant correlation for genetic risk score with FEV1, FVC per BMI-increasing allele