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More than 90 percent of men in Sweden who have very low-risk prostate cancer choose close monitoring rather than immediate treatment -- and more American men should use that option

Surveillance Rates on Rise in Low-Risk Prostate Cancer

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In Sweden, 90 percent with very low-risk disease choose this option instead of immediate treatment
Among patients with ureteral stones

Certain Factors Predict Repeat ER Visits for Ureteral Stones

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Younger patients, having proximal stones, needing IV narcotics more likely to return
Sexually transmitted disease cases reached a record high in the United States in 2015

CDC: STD Rates at Unprecedented High in the United States

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More prevention efforts needed, agency says
Financial toxicity is a clinically relevant outcome for patients receiving treatment for advanced cancer

Financial Toxicity Is a Relevant Cancer Outcome Measure

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Health-related quality of life correlated with financial toxicity in cancer patients
For infants undergoing microscopic urinalysis as part of urinary tract infection evaluation

Urine Concentration Aids UTI Diagnosis in Young Infants

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Pyuria threshold varies with urine concentration for evaluation of UTI in young infants
Narrow-network health insurance plans have lower monthly premiums than larger-network plans

Lower Monthly Premiums for Narrow-Network Plans

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Extra-small-network plan has less expensive monthly premium than large-network plan
The risk of dementia might be doubled for prostate cancer patients who are treated with androgen-deprivation therapy

Androgen Deprivation Therapy May Raise Dementia Risk

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Men on ADT found to have twice the risk of developing dementia within five years of treatment
A type of smokeless tobacco called snus may increase a prostate cancer patient's mortality risk

Snus Use Tied to Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer Mortality

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Safety of the smokeless tobacco product called into question
The risk of radiocontrast-associated nephropathy may be overestimated

Risk of Nephropathy From Radiocontrast Overestimated

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Risk of acute kidney injury varies by comorbidity and acuity of illness
Physicians are twice as likely to get the right diagnosis on the first try as 23 popular symptom-checking computer programs

Doctors Better Diagnosticians Than Symptom-Checker Programs

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Popular symptom checkers were half as accurate in comparison study