Author: Janine Anthes

EPA predicts between 470 and 1,400 premature deaths a year by 2030

Low-income urban preschoolers with asthma may not meet home medication readiness criteria

Lumpectomy, radiotherapy tied to reduction in breast cancer mortality versus lumpectomy, mastectomy

cfDNA testing for trisomy 21, 18, 13 recommended in pregnancy; no FDA oversight for testing

Five evidence-based recommendations list tests, procedures that doctors, patients should question

Researchers project that AC adaptation will account for increase in deaths related to air quality

Overall, 1.6 percent of total development assistance for health went to projects with adolescent target

Tobacco content occurred in 33 percent of all programs; 8 percent of all adverts, trailer breaks

And increase in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States

Disability-specific disparities prevalent in access to health care, especially for young, middle-aged adults

Lack of correlation between physician scores of doctor-patient communication versus patient scores

Recommendations include asking for exceptions to payer policies and citing regulatory information

Full-tuition scholarships, regardless of need, offered to all new and current medical students

Dose-response association with highest odds of opioid-related death with high-dose pregabalin

Air pollution advisories, air quality alerts issued for Washington, Oregon

Worsening seen for sleep duration, quality of sleep, and daytime sleepiness

Most commonly reported health effects were neurologic, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal

Little or no excess risk of death, MI, stroke for those with five risk-factor variables within target ranges

Decreases in pharmacologic treatment, adjunctive agent use, hospital length of stay, opioid tx days