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Most Americans now support aggressive regulation to keep health care costs in check -- including price caps on drugs

Poll: Americans Want Health Care Costs Kept in Check

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Suggestions include price controls on drugs, hospitals, and doctors
A new treatment for HIV has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Genvoya -- a tablet containing elvitegravir

FDA Approves Genvoya to Treat HIV-1 Infection

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Medication contains a new form of tenofovir not previously approved by the FDA
Use of estimated glomerular filtration rate rather than serum creatinine can expand metformin eligibility

Metformin Eligibility Up With eGFR Versus Serum Creatinine

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Metformin eligibility expanded with use of eGFR, especially among men, non-Hispanic blacks
The American College of Physicians has joined other organizations in an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court

ACP Joins Amicus Curiae Brief to Supreme Court

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Brief urges Supreme Court to uphold considerations of race, ethnicity in med school application process
Gastric bypass surgery may save health care dollars down the road

Bariatric Surgery Found to Reduce Future Health Care Costs

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Patients, especially those with diabetes, found to spend far less on care after procedure
Another research team is reporting progress toward developing a vaccine to prevent respiratory syncytial virus. Their findings were published in the Nov. 4 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Progress Made in Early Trial of RSV Vaccine

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Researcher hopes to see routine respiratory syncytial virus immunization within a decade
The rates of processes of diabetes mellitus guideline-concordant care are similar

Guideline-Concordant Diabetes Care Similar With NPs, PCPs

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Similar rates of recommended processes of care with nurse practitioners, primary care physicians
Two alternative therapies -- acupuncture and the Alexander Technique -- appear equally beneficial for the long-term relief of chronic neck pain

Alternative Treatments Found to Benefit Chronic Neck Pain

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Acupuncture, 'Alexander Technique' helped more than drugs and physical therapy
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest tracking suggests that although gonorrhea resistance to the antibiotic treatment cefixime declined between 2011 and 2013

CDC: Gonorrhea Showing More Resistance to Cefixime

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Other effective treatments remain available, but finding is cause for concern
More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs

Prescription Medication Use on the Rise in the United States

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Many adults take five or more medications, often for preventable ills