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Nearly 13 percent of American adults have tried electronic cigarettes at least once

CDC: E-Cigarette Use Highest Among 18- to 24-Year-Olds

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Almost 4 percent of all adult Americans use them, new survey shows
New research suggests that doctors don't warn younger women when they're at risk for cardiovascular disease as often as they warn men. And once younger women suffer an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Gender Gap Appears to Continue in Cardiovascular Care

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Younger women less likely than men to be warned of risk, get same treatments or survive after MI
Clinicians should screen overweight and obese adults between 40 and 70 years old for abnormal blood glucose levels

USPSTF Urges Broader Screening for Type 2 Diabetes

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Task Force advises testing overweight, obese people aged 40 to 70 for abnormal blood sugar
The importance of thanking patients for coming to see you

Physician Emphasizes Importance of Saying Thank You

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Doctor reports feeling deeper connection to his patients; improvement in patient satisfaction score
Fewer Americans are dying from cardiovascular disease

Mortality Rates for Major Illnesses Fall in the United States

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Prevention key to continued progress in fighting cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes
For patients with active rheumatoid arthritis and vitamin D deficiency

Vitamin D Supplementation Beneficial in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Improvement in disease activity for patients with vitamin D deficiency at baseline
Continuing a centralized mailed fecal occult blood test program is beneficial for improving adherence to colorectal cancer screening

Continuing Mailed FOBT Program Ups CRC Screening Adherence

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Continuing benefits for patients who completed FOBT tests in years one and/or two of the program
Lifestyle modification

Functional Foods Could Help With Long-Term Weight Loss

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Positive results reported in rodent studies, but translation of results into humans is needed
For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after radiofrequency ablation

Sartans Improve Survival, Time to Recurrence in Liver Cancer

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Sartans up outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after radiofrequency ablation
For pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus or type 2 diabetes

Cellphone System Ups Glucose Self-Monitoring in Pregnancy

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For pregnant women, improvement in compliance and satisfaction with use of CIT system