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Factors including increases in health care service price and intensity are associated with increases in U.S. health care spending from 1996 to 2013

Increases in U.S. Health Spending Tied to Health Service Price

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Higher spending also linked to population growth and aging, negatively linked to disease incidence
Alcohol use is associated with certain types of cancer

ASCO Issues Statement Regarding Alcohol and Cancer

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Alcohol-related cancers account for 5.5 percent of all cancers treated annually worldwide
Pricing interventions seem to improve access to healthy food and beverage options with increases in stocking and sales of these items

Pricing Interventions Increase Sales, Intake of Healthy Foods

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Also linked to reduced purchasing and consumption of unhealthy foods and beverages

The American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Oct. 28- Nov. 1

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The 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) The annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive...
From 2005 to 2015 there was a decrease in the proportion of infants aged ≤60 days with a urinary tract infection who received four or more days of intravenous antibiotics

Drop in Proportion of Neonates With Long IV Therapy for UTI

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Decrease from 50 percent in 2005 to 19 percent in 2015; not linked to increase in hospital readmissions
Not all prescription drug users report receiving warnings about driving impairment

Driving Impairment Warnings Often Not Given With Rx Meds

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For most drug categories, those who do receive warnings perceive higher risk of impaired driving
For adolescents with type 1 diabetes and high levels of albumin excretion

ACE Inhibitor, Statin No Benefit for T1DM, High Albumin Excretion

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Use of ACE inhibitor and a statin does not change albumin-to-creatinine ratio in adolescents with T1DM

October 2017 Briefing – Urology

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Urology for October 2017. This roundup includes the latest...
In older adults

Dry Mouth Common Medication Reaction in Older Adults

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In intervention studies, greatest risk of dry mouth found with urological medications
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched an initiative to examine which provider regulations should be discarded or revamped amid concerns that the regulations are reducing the amount of time that physicians spend with patients

CMS Launches Initiative to Examine Impact of Regulations

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Officials set to travel country gathering information on impact of their regulations on physicians