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Next-generation sequencing may greatly improve a physician's ability to quickly diagnose rare genetic diseases in newborns

Next-Generation Sequencing Can ID Rare Diseases in Newborns

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Technique, performed in a hospital-based laboratory, offers timely results
A new communication toolkit created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality can help health care organizations and providers communicate with patients and families when harm occurs to patients.

AHRQ Communication Toolkit Can Help After Patient Harm Occurs

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Toolkit helps patients, families, clinicians, and administrators discuss what happened
Recognizing the unique role of patients and their expertise within the physician-patient interaction can help to prevent non-adherence based on disagreement

Recognition of Patient Expertise Can Improve Adherence

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Recognizing patient expertise in treatment decision can prevent nonadherence based on disagreement
Uninsurance rates have decreased since the introduction of the Affordable Care Act

Remaining Uninsured May Be Difficult to Reach Via ACA

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Reaching the remaining uninsured may be difficult due to lack of Medicaid expansion on the state level
Half as many infants and preschoolers in the United States are dying from abusive head trauma as in 2009

CDC: Fatal Abusive Head Trauma Among Children Down in the U.S.

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Deaths of children under age 5 dropped an average 13 percent annually between 2009 and 2014
There is strong evidence to support intermittent inhaled corticosteroids for prevention of wheeze exacerbations in preschool children with intermittent asthma or viral-triggered wheezing

Intermittent Steroids Reduce Some Asthma Exacerbations

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Findings for preschool children with intermittent asthma or viral-triggered wheezing
Prenatal supplementation with omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids does not reduce immunoglobulin E-associated allergic disease in children

Prenatal n-3 LCPUFAs Don’t Cut IgE-Linked Disease in Children

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No reduction in disease at age 6 years; protective effect suggested on D. farinae sensitization
As early as first grade

Even First Graders Experience Obesity-Related Bullying, Teasing

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Weight bias affects all aspects of obese children's lives, researchers say
Genetic analysis can improve diagnosis and management of intellectual developmental disorder and unexplained metabolic abnormalities

Genetic Analysis Offers Options for Some Developmental Delay

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Exome sequencing led to better treatments in four of 10 cases studied
Benzyl butyl phthalate regulates the mesenchymal stem cell toward adipogenesis by inducing epigenetic stress

Plastics Chemical BBP Exposure May ‘Program’ Obesity

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BBP exposure enhances lipid accumulation and adipogenesis in dose-dependent manner