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The Amerindian Yanomami community

No Age-Related Increase in BP for Yanomami Community

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Communities who are among least acculturated peoples in world have no increase in BP with age
For patients with diabetes mellitus with multivessel coronary disease

AHA: Lasting Benefit for CABG in Diabetes, Multivessel Disease

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Lower all-cause mortality in CABG group versus PCI-DES group after median follow-up of 7.5 years
Combined treatment with glecaprevir and pibrentasvir is highly effective in treating chronic hepatitis C virus genotype-1 infections that failed to respond to direct-acting antiviral therapy

Option Found for Retreatment of Chronic Hep C Infection

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Glecaprevir + pibrentasvir effective for those who previously failed direct-acting antiviral treatment
Survivors of major trauma have an elevated risk for mental health conditions or death by suicide in the five years after injury

Mental Health Conditions, Suicide Up After Major Trauma

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Rise seen in postinjury rate of mental health diagnoses; suicide rate higher than population average
Calcified nodules in retinal drusen are linked to disease progression in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Calcified Nodules in Drusen May Signal Progression of AMD

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Use of imaging to analyze these nodules could guide strategies for tx of age-related macular degeneration
Data from patient- and family-reported error narratives indicate that problems related to patient-physician interactions are major contributors to diagnostic errors

Patient Experiences Shed Light on Diagnostic Errors

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Problems related to patient-physician interactions contribute to diagnostic errors
For patients with breast cancer

Breast Cancer Recurrence Rate Not Up With Autologous Fat Transfer

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Reconstruction with autologous fat transfer seems not to increase rate of locoregional recurrence
The number of Americans with tickborne diseases reached a record high of nearly 60

CDC: Record Number of Tickborne Disease Cases in U.S. Last Year

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Most of those cases were Lyme disease
By collecting data on suicides by medical students

AMA to Collect Data on Suicide Among Doctors-in-Training

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Administration hopes to identify the systemic factors that contribute to this problem
JUUL Labs

Under Pressure, JUUL Withdraws Most Flavored E-Cigs From Market

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Company is also shutting down Facebook and Instagram accounts in the United States