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Children with special health care needs receive 1.5 billion hours of health care at home from family members

Families Provide 1.5B Hours of Care to Special Needs Children

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Family care most likely in children who are young, poor, and with severe conditions
A direct referral program and use of an interim buprenorphine regimen can be beneficial for encouraging individuals with an opioid-use disorder to seek help

Police Referral Without Arrest Lets Opioid Abusers Seek Help

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And, interim buprenorphine regime can reduce drug-related risks while waiting for opioid abuse tx
About two-third of females with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa achieve recovery by the time of follow-up at 22 years

Two-Thirds With Anorexia, Bulimia Recover in Long-Term

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Early recovery linked to increased risk of long-term recovery in anorexia nervosa but not bulimia nervosa
For healthy adults from Sierra Leon

Recombinant Type-5 Vector-Based Ebola Vaccine Safe

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Vaccine is immunogenic in healthy adults from Sierra Leone; optimal dose 8.0 × 1010 viral particles
Patients who experience unrecognized myocardial infarction (MI) have reduced pain sensitivity compared to those who experience recognized MI

Unrecognized Heart Attacks Tied to Higher Pain Tolerance

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Lack of symptoms in unrecognized MI may be due to reduced pain sensitivity
Whites with type 2 diabetes have more life years lost than South Asians or blacks

More Years Lost for Whites Versus South Asians, Blacks With T2DM

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Older South Asians with diabetes have longer life expectancy than South Asians without diabetes
There is high satisfaction for a postpartum self-administered medication program on postpartum wards

Most Postpartum Moms OK With Self-Administered Pain Meds

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Eighty percent median overall improvement in pain; some users would prefer drug dispensing by nurse
Imaging using fluorescence confocal microscopy analysis in the reflectance mode and with an "en face" scanning can control tumor margins of eyelid basal cell carcinoma to optimize surgical management

Confocal Microscopy Aids Surgical Removal of Tumors From Eyelid

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Current study evaluated reflectance mode, horizontal scanning for removal of eyelid basal cell carcinoma
Younger patients with early-onset androgenetic alopecia have increased oxidative stress

Oxidative Stress Tied to Early-Onset Androgenetic Alopecia

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Authors say topical or systemic antioxidants may be a promising treatment
For women surviving into late life

Is Dementia in Older Women Tied to 20-Year Rate of Weight Loss?

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Rate of loss over 20 years linked to development of MCI/dementia in women surviving past 80