Blueprint Being Developed to Address Physician Burnout
As part of blueprint, task force developing strategies that can be adopted by any institution/practice
HIV Incidence Down in All Except Men Who Have Sex With Men
Decrease in modeled HIV incidence in all transmission risk groups except minority MSM
Cardiovascular Health Declining in the United States
Decrease in disparities between race/ethnicity due to worsening CV health among whites 1988-2014
Oxyntomodulin Augments Glucose Homeostasis
OXM effects seen in obese patients with and without T2DM; comparable effects to liraglutide in T2DM
H. Pylori Treatment Tied to Lower Metachronous Gastric Cancer Risk
Those treated after early CA also had improvement in atrophy grade at gastric corpus lesser curvature
Hep C Compounds Alcoholism’s Effect on Brain Volume
Deleterious effect of alcohol dependence on frontal cortical volumes also compounded by drug use
Reduced Cortical Thickness ID’d in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Female OSA patients had multiple regions of reduced cortical thickness in superior frontal lobe
Higher Burden of Trichomonas vaginalis Infection in U.S. Blacks
Positive association for TV infection prevalence with female sex, black race, being below poverty level
BMI As Predictor of CVD Risk May Be More Susceptible to Bias
For four other measures of adiposity, increasing adiposity linked to more linear increase in CVD risk
Fewer SIDS Cases Result From Genetic Heart Disease Causes
Findings may help prevent unnecessary genetic testing of surviving family members
