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Older adults with incident moderately severe dementia living at home have more medical needs than those living in residential care or nursing facilities

Seniors With Dementia at Home Have More Medical Needs

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Older adults living at home also more likely to be members of disadvantaged populations
Ultrasound guidance improves first-attempt success in establishing intravenous lines in children

Ultrasound Aids IV Line Placement in Children

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Findings showed success of first attempts in children with presumed difficult peripheral access
The disparity gap for care practices and certain outcomes between minority and white infants born at 22 to 29 gestational weeks narrowed from 2006 to 2017

Racial, Ethnic Disparities in Care for Preemies Have Narrowed

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Disparities have narrowed in specific care practices for African-American, Hispanic versus white infants
High-income countries have experienced a recent slowing in the cardiovascular disease mortality decline

CVD Mortality Declines Are Slowing in High-Income Countries

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In most recent years, CVD mortality rate increased for U.S. men and women, Canadian women
The time to first postoperative bowel movement after elective laparoscopic colorectal resection is shorter in those drinking coffee versus noncaffeinated tea

Coffee May Speed Up Recovery of Function After Bowel Surgery

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Time to first postoperative bowel movement and length of hospital stay shorter in coffee drinkers
Type 1 diabetes diagnosis is missed less frequently when patients present during childhood or adolescence

Type 1 Diabetes Misdiagnosed in One-Fourth of Children, Adults

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Misdiagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children, but not adults, associated with diabetic ketoacidosis
Only two-thirds of all health care providers are fully adherent to surgical guidelines for risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy

Adherence to Surgical Guidelines Low for Salpingo-Oophorectomy

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Gynecologic oncologists more likely to fully adhere to surgical protocol than ob-gyns
A section on the use of technology in the management of diabetes has been added to the American Diabetes Association Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes; a clinical guideline summary was published online Aug. 13 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Use of Technology Now Included in Standards of Diabetes Care

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Use of an intermittently scanned CGM can be considered as substitute to SMBG for adults
Two experimental Ebola treatments have worked so well in the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak that they will be offered to all patients

New Ebola Drugs Highly Effective, Might Shorten Outbreak in Africa

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The treatments, REGN-EB3 and mAb-114, are both monoclonal antibodies
Warning labels for the suspected cancer-causing weed killer glyphosate (Roundup) will not be approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA Will Not Approve Warning Labels for Glyphosate

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Last year, Roundup maker Monsanto obtained court order blocking the warning labels