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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its interim guidance for U.S. health care providers caring for infants with possible congenital Zika virus infection

CDC Updates Zika Guidance for Infant Care

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Recommendations include evaluation and management of infants with possible infection
A high percentage of women receiving a new HIV diagnosis have already received this diagnosis in the past but are not undergoing HIV medical care

High Percentage of HIV-Diagnosed Women Not in Care

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62 percent of women with positive test had previously received the diagnosis but no care
Clinicians' job satisfaction is associated with improved burnout scores and reduced intention to leave their practices

Clinician Job Satisfaction Linked to Improved Burnout Scores

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Reduced intention to leave practice for clinicians who report increased job satisfaction during follow-up
Mislabeling of herbal and dietary supplements is common

Herbal and Dietary Supplements Are Commonly Mislabeled

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Bodybuilding products have highest mislabeling rate; many mislabeled products tied to liver injury
Transition from a condition-specific to a hospital-wide readmission measure would result in a modest increase in the number of hospitals eligible for readmission penalties and would substantially increase penalties for safety-net hospitals

More Penalties With Hospital-Wide Readmission Measure

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Increase in number of hospitals eligible for penalties, in penalty disparity for safety-net, other hospitals
For nulliparous women at term with a singleton cephalic presentation receiving epidural analgesia

More Vaginal Births With Lying Down in Second Stage of Labor

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For nulliparous women with epidural analgesia, fewer spontaneous vaginal births in upright position
Women and minorities undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with everolimus-eluting stents have a risk of major adverse cardiac events that is similar to that of white men

MACE Risk Similar for White Men, Women, Minorities After PCI

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But women and minorities have higher adjusted risk of death/MI after PCI with everolimus-eluting stent
Modifiable conditions

Conditions Tied to Clinician Dissatisfaction Are Modifiable

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Improving workplace satisfaction directly tied to reduced clinician burnout
For patients with acute coronary syndromes

Diabetes Ups Risk of MACE in Acute Coronary Syndromes

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Diabetes, but not pre-diabetes, tied to increased risk of major adverse cardiac events in adjusted model
In the first year of the Affordable Care Act

Uninsurance Down by One-Third for Cancer Diagnoses in 2014

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Significant decreases in uninsurance seen across all stages and sites assessed in first year of ACA