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More than half of prescription medication exposures among children involve access to medications that have previously been removed from their original packaging

Rx Meds That Children Access Often Removed From Packaging

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Grandparents' medications involved in 30.7 percent of prescription medication exposures in children 5 and younger
Use of low-dose methotrexate is associated with increased risks for adverse events

Risk for Adverse Events Up With Low-Dose Methotrexate

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Risks increased for skin cancer and GI, pulmonary, infectious, hematologic adverse events
Nearly a quarter of all U.S. residents will be older than 65 by 2060

U.S. Life Expectancy to Reach 85 by 2060

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Census Bureau predicts life expectancy will increase by about six years between 2017 and 2060
An investigation into how telemarketers may be obtaining seniors' personal Medicare information will be launched by the U.S. Health and Human Services inspector general office.

Telemarketer Access to Medicare Information to Be Investigated

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Audit comes in response to surge of telemarketing scams targeting Medicare recipients
For treatment of latent tuberculosis infection

Short-Course Rifamycin-Based Regimens Preferred for Latent TB

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Shorter regimens favored over longer course of isoniazid monotherapy for latent TB infection
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Medtronic MiniMed 600 Series Insulin Pumps Recalled

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Medtronic has received 26,421 complaints about malfunctions in the recalled insulin pumps
A clinical trial of the weight-loss drug Belviq (lorcaserin) shows an association with an increased risk for cancer

FDA Requests Market Withdrawal of Belviq Due to Cancer Risk

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However, agency is not recommending special screening for patients who have taken the weight-loss drug
Vaccination with zoster vaccine live is associated with a reduced risk for stroke among older adults

ASA: Herpes Zoster Vaccine May Reduce Risk for Stroke

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Risk significantly reduced for stroke events, acute ischemic strokes, hemorrhagic strokes in older adults
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have increased colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in cutaneous lupus erythematosus lesions

S. aureus Colonization Increased in Skin Lesions in Lupus Patients

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Repression of barrier gene expression, increased S. aureus-binding integrins in SLE keratinocytes found
Experts are "very encouraged" after just three new Ebola cases were reported in the past week in eastern Congo

Congo Ebola Outbreak Seems to Be Easing

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So far, at least 2,249 people have died in the epidemic that began in August 2018