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Teens and young adults who use electronic cigarettes are almost four times as likely as their non-vaping counterparts to begin smoking traditional cigarettes

E-Cigarette Use Ups Odds Teens Will Smoke Tobacco Cigarettes

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Strong e-cigarette regulation could limit future population-level burden of cigarette smoking
An experimental flu vaccine patch with dissolving microneedles appears safe and effective

Dissolvable Microneedle Patch for Flu Vaccine Found Safe, Effective

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Early results look promising for dissolvable microneedle vaccine
New measures to increase the number of generic prescription drugs available to Americans have been taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

FDA Seeks to Increase Number of Generic Drugs on Market

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Agency will now give priority reviews to new generic drugs until there are at least three available
There is a correlation between bacterial colonization and food sensitization and allergy in young children

Bacterial Colonization Linked to Food Sensitization, Allergy

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Specific genera underrepresented in children with food sensitization and food allergy
For children

Crowded Living Conditions May Up Myopia Risk in Children

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Population density, home size predict axial length, non-cycloplegic refractive errors after adjustment
Factors associated with patients switching physicians include physicians' attitude

Physician Attitude Important Factor in Patients Switching PCP

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Other variables that encourage patients to leave include cost, bedside manner, comfort of facility
High levels of anxiety and depression in patients with facial acne are not related to oxidative stress

Acne-Related Depression, Anxiety Not Tied to Oxidative Stress

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Anxiety more common than depression and directly associated with quality of life impairment
With the eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 in 2015

Sound Progress Made Toward Global Containment of Poliovirus

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Following eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 in 2015, trivalent vaccine replaced with bivalent OPV
Testing placental and fetal tissue after a child is born can confirm or rule out Zika infection

CDC: Zika Can Be Found in Placental, Fetal Tissue at Birth

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Of 546 live births with possible maternal Zika virus, 11 percent proved positive
Extended use of smartphones and other hand-held electronic devices leads to an increased risk of carpal tunnel syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Up With Increased Electronic Device Use

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Especially for those who spend more than five hours a day on their devices, researchers say