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From 2011 to 2014 there were increases in the rate of hepatitis C virus detection among women of childbearing age

Recent Increases in Rate of Hep C Detection in Young Women

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Increase in rate of HCV detection in women of childbearing age, HCV testing among infants
Teenage athletes are less likely to abuse opioids than adolescents who don't play sports or exercise

Teen Athletes at Low Risk for Opioid Addiction

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Sports may actually provide protective effect against opioid abuse
Converting a single weekly meeting to a walking meeting can help raise work-related physical activity levels of white-collar workers

‘Walking Meetings’ Feasible Strategy for Employee Wellness

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Walking meetings increase on-the-job activity levels for white-collar workers
Up to 1.6 million childbearing women in Central and South America may be at risk for infection with the Zika virus by the end of the first phase of the epidemic

Up to 1.6 Million Childbearing Women Possibly at Risk for Zika

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Scientists used data on births, climate, and other mosquito-borne infections to estimate outbreak
For patients with molluscum contagiosum lesions

Local Hyperthermia Can Clear Molluscum Contagiosum Lesions

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More than half of 21 patients in pilot study had lesions cleared within 12 weeks
For patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Severe Hypoglycemia Linked to Mortality, CVD Events in T1DM

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Prior severe hypoglycemic events within one year linked to increased risk of all-cause mortality, CVD
Florida health officials say they're investigating a second possible case of locally transmitted Zika infection.

Another Non-Travel Related Case of Zika in Florida

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If confirmed, cases would be first instances of Zika infection in continental United States
About one-third of Princeton University students given a vaccine to combat a meningitis B outbreak on campus in 2013 didn't show signs of protection against the infection eight weeks later

Seropositivity of Meningitis B Vaccine Lower Than Expected

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One in three students didn't get immunity against outbreak strain after two doses
An experimental drug spurred substantial weight loss in patients with proopiomelanocortin deficiency

Drug Shows Promise for Genetic Proopiomelanocortin Deficiency

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After 10 months of daily treatment, one patient lost 112 lbs; another lost 45 lbs in three months
While overall U.S. medical spending growth slowed between 2004 and 2013

Health Expenditures Rising for Middle Class, Wealthy

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But, since 2004, simultaneous decline in expenditures for the nonelderly poor