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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends cervical cancer screening with cervical cytology alone every three years or screening with high-risk human papillomavirus testing alone every five years in women ages 30 to 65 years. These findings form the basis of a draft recommendation statement published online Sept. 12 by the USPSTF.

USPSTF Backs Cervical Cancer Screening With Cytology or hrHPV

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Recommendations for screening with cytology alone every three years or hrHPV testing every five years
The age-adjusted U.S. cancer death rate decreased 25 percent from 1991 to 2014

AACR Releases 2017 Cancer Progress Report

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Twenty-five percent decrease in age-adjusted U.S. cancer death rate from 1991 to 2014
Certain aspects of empathy improve during medical student training

Some Aspects of Empathy Improve During Medical Training

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Decrease in empathy as assessed by JSPE, but overall cognitive empathy improved on the QCAE
Intestinal glucose stimulation has an anti-incretin effect

Intestinal Glucose Stimulation Has Anti-Incretin Effect

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Insulin sensitivity lower during oral versus IV glucose administration; difference amplified in obese
Chronic dosing of apricot kernel extract can result in hypoxia and cyanide toxicity

Chronic Dosing of Apricot Kernel Extract May Lead to Hypoxia

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Self-prescription of kernel extract reported for five years; cyanide toxicity confirmed in blood analysis
Recommendations for the management and pharmacologic treatment of patients with diabetes have been updated; the new clinical guidelines were published online Sept. 12 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

2017 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes Released

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Recommendations for T1D focus on monitoring, pharmacologic approaches to glycemic management
Does being a physician carry a moral obligation to respond to calls for medical assistance on airplanes? That is the topic of an article published in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Are Physicians Obligated to Help on Planes?

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One administrative physician explains his sense of obligation to help
Rupture of the distal biceps tendon in a patient with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction should raise suspicion for wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis

Distal Bicep Tendon Rip Tied to Transthyretin Amyloidosis

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Findings in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Plasma biomarkers that may improve the prediction of rapid decline in renal function in type 2 diabetes have been identified

Biomarkers Can Predict Rapid Drop in Renal Function in T2DM

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ApoA4, CD5L, C1QB, IBP3 may improve prediction of rapid decline in renal function in type 2 diabetes
A specific subset of tissue factor-expressing monocytes persist after virological suppression and trigger the coagulation cascade by activating factor X in HIV

In HIV, Tissue Factor-Expressing Monocytes Trigger Coagulation

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The anticoagulant Ixolaris blocked functional activity of tissue factor in vitro and in vivo