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Just over three-quarters of health care personnel received a flu vaccine last season

Three-Quarters of Health Care Workers Got Flu Shot Last Year

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Lowest rates seen among health workers in long-term care settings
A small but growing subset of generic drugs experienced sudden large price increases from 2007 to 2013

Price Hikes Noted in Small Subset of Generic Drugs

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Small but growing proportion of drugs experiencing at least doubling in price
Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with a reduced risk for incident advanced age-related macular degeneration

Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Linked to Lower Risk for AMD

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Adults with high versus low MeDi score have lower risk for advanced age-related macular degeneration
In the first quarter of 2018

Uninsured Rate at 8.8 Percent in First Quarter of 2018

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Rate remained steady compared with 2017 but was substantially lower than rate of 16 percent in 2010
In preparing to interview to hire a new physician

Interviews Can Help Ensure Physician Candidates Fit Culture

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Medical practices must understand their own cultures before interviewing, pick questions beyond résumé
The number of health data breaches has steadily increased since 2010

Number of Health-Related Data Breaches Increasing

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Health plans had most records breached from 2010 to 2017, but providers breached most often
Despite large health policy changes

For Employer-Based Plans, Spending Across Services Steady

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Spending increased, but not uniformly, across all categories of health services from 2007 to 2016

September 2018 Briefing – Ophthalmology

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Ophthalmology for September 2018. This roundup includes the latest...
From 2016 to 2017

More Non-Elderly Americans Uninsured in 2017 Versus 2016

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More than 700,000 Americans uninsured in 2017 versus 2016, despite broad economic improvement
For patients with uveitic macular edema

Intravitreal Triamcinolone Beats Periocular Tx for Macular Edema

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Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide, dexamethasone implant best for uveitic macular edema