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The Ohio Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a law requiring HIV-infected individuals to tell their sexual partners of their status before having sex

Ohio Upholds Law Requiring HIV-Infected to Tell Sex Partners

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State's high court unanimously upholds law's constitutionality; appeal to U.S. Supreme Court likely
Depressive symptoms increase during the internship year for training physicians

Depressive Symptoms Increase During Internship Year

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Significantly greater increase seen among women; sex disparity partly due to work-family conflict
Children up to age 36 months with at least one foreign-born parent are less likely to be up-to-date on recommended vaccinations

Children of Immigrants Less Likely to be Up-to-Date on Shots

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Children with at least one foreign-born parent less likely to be up-to-date at ages 2, 6, 18, 36 months
Maternal use of acetaminophen in pregnancy is associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring

Maternal Use of Acetaminophen Linked to ADHD in Offspring

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Link seen after adjustment for maternal use before pregnancy, familial risk for ADHD
Receipt of gifts from pharmaceutical companies is associated with more prescriptions per patient and more costly prescriptions

Gifts From Pharma Companies Influence Prescribing Behavior

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Clinicians who receive gifts write more prescriptions per patient, more costly and branded prescriptions
Resistance to antiretroviral therapy is threatening the recent gains of treatment in the rate of new HIV infections

HIV Drug Resistance Is Threatening Gains of Treatment

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WHO has proposed 5-point plan for monitoring, combating, and preventing drug resistance
In a close 8-7 vote

Panel Recommends New Zoster Vaccine as First-Line Treatment

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Advisory committee says Shingrix vaccine should be given to adults aged 50 and older
For older women with cataract

Cataract Surgery Associated With Reduced Mortality in Women

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Lower all-cause, vascular-, cancer-, accidental-, neurologic-, pulmonary-specific mortality
A module has been developed to help health care professionals improve vaccination rates among adults

Module Developed to Improve Adult Vaccination Rates

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Team-based adult immunization program includes training, implementation of standard process

September 2017 Briefing – Infectious Disease

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Infectious Disease for September 2017. This roundup includes the...