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More than 40 percent of health care personnel with influenza-like illness work while ill

Many Health Care Providers Work While Sick

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Pharmacists and physicians have the highest frequency of working with influenza-like illness
Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer has heterogeneity in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging phenotype

Heterogeneity of PET/CT Imaging Phenotype Prognostic in mCRPC

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Assessments of androgen receptor, glycolysis prognostic in castration-resistant prostate Cancer
The ideal cardiovascular health score and the Fuster-BEWAT (blood pressure

Simpler Tool Promising for Atherosclerosis Prediction

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Fuster-BEWAT score similar to ideal cardiovascular health score in predicting subclinical disease
A multivariable model that uses routine laboratory data is able to predict advanced chronic kidney disease after hospitalization with acute kidney injury

Model Predicts Development of Chronic Kidney Disease

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Six variables independently linked to advanced CKD in patients hospitalized for acute kidney injury
Smartphone photographs of pediatric skin conditions taken by parents are of sufficient quality to allow accurate diagnosis

Accurate Diagnosis Seen With Photographs of Skin Conditions

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High concordance between smartphone photograph-based and in-person diagnosis of pediatric patients
Sentinel lymph node biopsy is underused for high-risk squamous cell carcinoma of the skin

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Underused in High-Risk SCC

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<0.1 percent of patients with high-risk SCC tumors underwent SLNB; 14 percent underwent dissections
Despite increases in HbA1c testing and awareness

In 2007-2014, Glycemic Control Plateaued in Diabetes Patients

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But significant improvements in HbA1c testing and awareness seen, except in those aged 20 to 44
African-American women with type 2 diabetes appear to be at increased risk of developing estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) breast cancer

ER- Breast CA Risk Up for African-Americans With T2DM

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ER- type accounts for increased breast cancer risk in African-American women; highest risk in nonobese
New guidelines lower the diagnostic threshold for stage 1 hypertension to 130/80

AHA/ACA Present New Blood Pressure Guidelines

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New guidelines lower the diagnostic threshold for stage 1 hypertension to 130/80
Heart failure due to methamphetamine use is increasing in prevalence among U.S. veterans

AHA: Methamphetamine-Related Heart Failure on the Rise

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Among veterans, prevalence of heart failure related to meth increased linearly from 2005 to 2015