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Study reveals Medicaid and private insurance copay rates are similar for adults 50 years and older using portal messaging

Meals are cost-saving assuming full uptake among eligible patients with diet-related diseases, limitations in activities of daily living

Pooled annual prevalence of GLP-1 RA use was 0.1 percent from 2018 to 2021 and increased to 0.4 percent by 2022

Increase was slower in Medicaid expansion states, resulting in net decrease from 2018-2019 to 2021-2022

Hospitalized patients more likely to be older and have more medical and psychiatric comorbid conditions

Authors say these factors can inform steps individuals can take to lower their risks for age-related brain diseases

Patients interested in or uncertain about fertility preservation should be referred to reproductive specialists

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy more effective for achieving ≥50 percent excess weight loss

Wearing spectacles with highly aspherical lenslets versus single-vision spectacle lenses reduces myopia progression and axial elongation over five years

16.9 percent of the association was mediated by psychological distress; 3.0 and 3.1 percent mediated by social isolation, neuroticism