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Despite adequate levels of prescriber

Inappropriate Use of Fentanyl Preps Seen Despite Awareness

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Claims data show many prescribed transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl were opioid-nontolerant
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine has released an updated position statement on concussion in sports. The statement was published in the February issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Sports Medicine Society Updates Concussion Guidelines

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Guidance is for physicians who provide sports concussion care from acute injury to return-to-play
Among postmenopausal women

Artificially Sweetened Drinks Linked to Stroke After Menopause

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Risk for all stroke, ischemic stroke, CHD, all-cause mortality up with highest level of consumption
Neurodevelopmental outcomes at 5 years of age are equivalent after brief general anesthesia or awake-regional anesthesia in infancy

Brief Anesthesia in Infancy Does Not Mar Neurodevelopment

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General anesthesia less than one hour does not seem to alter neurodevelopmental outcome at age 5
Growth in hospital prices and payments outpaced growth in physician prices and payments from 2007 through 2014

Hospital Prices Growing Faster Than Physician Prices

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Efforts to reduce health care spending should focus on hospital prices
People with a wide variety of chronic diseases are less physically active than individuals without chronic diseases

Physical Activity Down Across Chronic Disease Subgroups

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Mental health disorders tied to lowest moderate activity; those with CVD have lowest vigorous activity
Achieving high serogroup B meningococcal vaccination coverage is recommended following university-based outbreaks of meningococcal disease caused by serogroup B

High Rates of MenB Vaccination Advised in University Outbreaks

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Estimated first-dose vaccination coverage varied from 14 to 98 percent in 10 university outbreaks
For adolescent athletes

Subsymptom Threshold Exercise Speeds Concussion Recovery

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Aerobic exercise prescribed during first week after sport-related concussion speeds recovery in teens
Medicare patients with multiple sclerosis face increasing out-of-pocket costs for disease-modifying therapies

Medicare Patients With MS Face Higher Out-of-Pocket Rx Costs

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Projected cumulative out-of-pocket spending for disease-modifying therapies for 2019 was $6,894
A dynamic pattern of coordinated and anticoordinated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals can characterize healthy individuals and minimally conscious patients

Functional MRI Patterns Indicate Consciousness, Unconsciousness

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Brains of unresponsive patients mainly have pattern of low interareal phase coherence