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An artificially intelligent computer system

SABCS: Artificial Intelligence May Aid Doctors in Breast Cancer Care

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'Watson Oncology' agreed with doctors 90 percent of the time in many cases, researchers find
Age-related cataract is associated with increased odds of depressive symptoms

Age-Related Cataract Linked to Depressive Symptoms

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Greatest odds of depressive symptoms for adults with nuclear cataract and those with less education
In a position statement published online Dec. 5 in the Journal of Athletic Training

Recommendations Developed for Sport-Related Dental Injuries

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Recommendations relate to planning considerations, education, and mouthguard efficacy
There was an increase in the age-adjusted death rate from 2014 to 2015

Age-Adjusted Mortality Rate Up From 2014 to 2015 in U.S.

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Decrease of 0.1 year in life expectancy from 2014 to 2015 in U.S. population
For hospitalized patients

Sleep Duration, Efficiency Linked to Inpatient Hyperglycemia

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Longer sleep duration, increased sleep efficiency cut odds of hyperglycemia, impaired fasting glucose
For older adults without dementia

Higher NT-proBNP Tied to Lower Brain Volume in Older Adults

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Higher NT-proBNP levels linked to volumetric and microstructural markers of subclinical brain damage
About 5 percent of patients for whom whole-exome sequencing is informative have multiple molecular diagnoses

Frequency of Multiple Molecular Diagnoses About 5 Percent

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Phenotypic similarity score lower for patients with phenotype resulting from two distinct disorders
Osimertinib is more effective than platinum-pemetrexed therapy in patients with T790M-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed during first-line epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment

Osimertinib Bests Platinum-Pemetrexed in T790M+ NSCLC

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Significantly longer duration of progression-free survival with osimertinib vs platinum-pemetrexed
A single dose of an experimental gene therapy may benefit patients with hemophilia B

ASH: Single Dose of Gene Therapy Effective in Hemophilia B

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Small, preliminary trial suggests it may free hemophilia B patients from transfusions
Cardiac arrest patients who receive epinephrine within five minutes are more likely to survive than those who don't receive the drug within that time frame

Timely Epinephrine Increases Cardiac Arrest Survival

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Dose within five minutes of cardiac arrest increases chances by 20 percent