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Data mining coupled with laboratory experiments can identify QT interval-prolonging drug-drug interactions

Data Mining, Experiments ID QT Prolonging Drug Interactions

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Patients taking ceftriaxone and lansoprazole have significantly longer QTc intervals
Use of complementary health approaches is significantly higher for U.S. adults with musculoskeletal pain disorders

CDC: Complementary Health Use Up With Musculoskeletal Pain

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Over 41 percent of U.S. adults with musculoskeletal pain disorders use complementary health approach
In a clinical practice guideline published online Oct. 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association

New Recs for RBC Transfusion, Optimal RBC Storage Length

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Restrictive red blood cell transfusion threshold of 7 g/dL recommended for most hospitalized adults
Adolescent body mass index predicts diabetes mellitus mortality in midlife

Adolescent BMI Predicts Diabetes Mellitus Mortality

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Overweight and obesity correlated with hazard ratios of 8.0 and 17.2 for diabetes mortality
For overweight or obese individuals

Income Predicts Receipt of Weight-Loss Advice

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Findings in overweight, obese adults in cohort, including low-income, racial/ethnic minority adults
Efforts to improve the quality of clinical care in the United States have had little impact on many aspects of outpatient care

Quality of Outpatient Care Has Not Consistently Improved in U.S.

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Large analysis finds declines or stagnation in many basic health measures in the United States
Migrants from countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis who undergo screening before entry to low-incidence countries pose a negligible risk of onward transmission but are at increased risk of the infection

Migrants Screened for Active TB Pose Negligible Transmission Risk

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Screening, monitoring, treatment important in continuing downward trend of tuberculosis incidence
The risk of dementia might be doubled for prostate cancer patients who are treated with androgen-deprivation therapy

Androgen Deprivation Therapy May Raise Dementia Risk

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Men on ADT found to have twice the risk of developing dementia within five years of treatment
The first complete genome sequence of a sample of Zika virus derived from semen has been obtained

Complete Genome Sequence of Zika Isolated From Semen

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Many answers to questions about the virus may lie in the viral genome
The racial gap for breast cancer mortality is closing

Downward Trend in U.S. Breast Cancer Mortality Continues

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And the disparity between black and white women is narrowing, CDC says