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More Medicaid-covered children are receiving treatments that conform to practice standards for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Increase in Evidence-Based Practice for Children With ADHD

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Findings based upon publicly-insured children from 2001 to 2010
Some health care systems are opening tiny hospitals which provide comprehensive emergency services but may have fewer than a dozen inpatient beds

‘Microhospitals’ Can Provide Quicker Access to Care

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Microhospitals may offer outpatient surgery, primary care, other services, as well as emergency care
Sickle cell trait is not associated with a higher risk of death than absence of the trait

Sickle Cell Trait Doesn’t Up Mortality Risk in U.S. Soldiers

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However, SC trait was linked with significantly higher risk of exertional rhabdomyolysis
The number of private health insurance claims for Americans addicted to opioids and heroin rose 3

Opioid-Related Insurance Claims Rise 3,000 Percent

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Present crisis disproportionately affecting white, middle-class people in non-urban settings
Opioid users may be misusing and abusing gabapentin

Some Opioid Users May Be Taking Gabapentin Without an Rx

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Findings reveal need for more robust testing
Patients with impaired glucose tolerance face an increased risk of mortality

Mortality Up With Impaired Glucose Tolerance

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Much of the increase associated with impaired glucose tolerance due to progression to diabetes
The incidence of hand

Overweight/Obesity Up Incidence of Hand, Hip, Knee Osteoarthritis

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Being overweight or obese increases incidence of OA, especially in the knee
Women with vaginal mesh with complications have a significantly increased proinflammatory response

Proinflammatory Response in Women With Vaginal Mesh

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Significantly higher M1/M2 cytokines, chemokines, MMP-9 and -2 in women with mesh-vagina explants
For patients with allergic rhinitis

House Dust Mite Immunotherapy Effective for Allergic Rhinitis

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Large randomized trial in Japan shows improvement in Average Adjusted Symptom Score
A third dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is recommended in cases of mumps outbreak in which transmission is sustained despite high two-dose MMR coverage

Third Dose of MMR Vaccine Can Help Control Mumps Outbreaks

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CDC advised third dose in recent outbreak with transmission despite high two-dose coverage