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Mandated neonatal abstinence syndrome surveillance and reporting allows state health departments to quantify incidence and informs programs and services

Mandated Neonatal Abstinence Reporting Helps Quantify Cases

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Five of six states with mandatory reporting receive case reports within 30 days of diagnosis
Less than half of all outpatient antibiotic prescription fills by privately insured nonelderly adults and children in the United States are appropriate or potentially appropriate

Inappropriate Antibiotic Rx Common in Privately Insured

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Only 12.8 and 35.5 percent of fills were appropriate, potentially appropriate in outpatients
Trained alert dogs can help patients with type 1 diabetes regulate their blood glucose levels

Trained Alert Dogs Can Detect Impending T1DM-Related Events

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In study, individual dogs' performance varied for detecting hypoglycemic episodes, hyperglycemia
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel vote on whether to recommend approval of the first oral medication for type 1 diabetes ended in an 8-8 tie Thursday.

FDA Panel Has Tie Vote on New Type 1 Diabetes Drug

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Zynquista is a once-daily pill meant to help type 1 diabetes patients manage their blood glucose levels
Therapists implementing interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents should routinely monitor depression symptoms and consider augmenting treatment for insufficient responders as early as week 4 of treatment

Assessing Symptoms After 4 Weeks of Psychotherapy Helpful in Teens

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Week 4 seems better than week 8 for assessing response, implementing treatment augmentation
Most children younger than 2 years with bronchiolitis seen in U.S. emergency departments and prescribed antibiotics have no documented bacterial coinfection

Antibiotics Often Inappropriately Prescribed for Bronchiolitis in ED

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In almost 70 percent of bronchiolitis cases, antibiotics prescribed with no concomitant infection
The first generic version of Sabril (vigabatrin) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent complex partial seizures in adults and children aged 10 years and older with epilepsy.

FDA Approves First Generic Version of Epilepsy Drug Sabril

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Generic equivalents held to same vigorous manufacturing standards as brand-name drugs
Due to the federal government shutdown

FDA Down to 5 Weeks of Funding to Review New Drug Applications

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Agency cannot accept new fees or applications until the shutdown is over
Vaccine hesitancy is among the top 10 health threats facing the world in 2019

WHO: Vaccine Hesitancy a Major Global Health Threat

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Percentage of U.S. children 19 to 35 months who have not been vaccinated has quadrupled since 2001
Adolescent sports-related concussion is associated with temporary impairments in health-related quality of life

Temporary Impairment in HRQOL After Teen Sports Concussion

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Worse cognitive HRQOL and clinically meaningful impairment in school and overall HRQOL observed