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Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to help speed the healing of broken bones is an inefficient use of health care resources

Ultrasound Does Not Appear to Speed Up Fracture Healing

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Detailed review shows LIPUS does not improve outcomes important to patients
Up to one-third of antidepressants are prescribed for pain

Off-Label Antidepressant Use Common, but Evidence Lacking

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Trazodone for insomnia most common off-label use for antidepressants
Forty-four percent of U.S. adults are worried about having their personal health care information stolen

Health Information Theft a Pressing Concern for U.S. Patients

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44 percent of U.S. adults are worried about having their personal health care information stolen
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a rule in relation to new reforms intended to stabilize individual and small group health insurance markets for 2018.

CMS Rule Set to Stabilize Small Health Insurance Markets

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Rule includes special enrollment period pre-enrollment verification, flexibility in level of cover
An internet-delivered physical therapist-prescribed home exercise and pain-coping skills training intervention is beneficial for individuals with chronic knee pain

Internet-Delivered Exercise, Pain-Coping Skills Alleviate Knee Pain

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Clinically meaningful improvements in pain, function with home exercise and pain-coping skills training
A considerable proportion of hospice caregivers are moderately to severely depressed or have moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety

Depression, Anxiety Prevalent in Hospice Caregivers

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Younger age and poorer self-rated global health are risk factors for both depression and anxiety
Insurance status is associated with adverse patient safety indicators among patients undergoing inpatient lumbar fusion

Insurance Status Linked to Patient Safety in Lumbar Fusion

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Medicaid, self-pay patients more likely to experience patient safety indicators
Early use of physical therapy for new low back pain in older adults is not associated with less subsequent back pain-specific health care utilization

Early PT Not Tied to Lower Health Care Use Later On

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Findings among older adults presenting with a new episode of low back pain
For patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have had an inadequate response to methotrexate

Baricitinib Associated With Significant Improvement in RA

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Findings versus placebo, adalimumab in patients non-responsive to methotrexate
A child's risk of a potentially fatal drug overdose more than doubles if a parent is prescribed an opioid

OD Risk Up in Children Whose Mothers Are Prescribed Opioids

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Second study finds opioids stored unsafely in many households with children