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Digestive Disease Week 2018 The Digestive Disease Week annual meeting sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American Gastroenterological Association, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract was held from June 2 to 5 in Washington, D.C., and attracted approximately 16,000 participants from around the […]

mHealth programs generally improve overall cardiovascular disease risk, at least in the short term

Significant increases in rates in 44 states, with increases of more than 30 percent in 25 states

HPV vaccine, screening offer opportunity to prevent 12,000 cervical CAs, 40,000 HPV-linked CAs/year

Four years post-intervention, reduced need for school services in children from low-income families

Also, more are not within recommended BP target compared with Joint National Committee report

Lower adverse cardiac events seen at five-year follow-up after coronary-artery bypass surgery

AAFP and other signatories also call on FDA to apply the proposal to other combustible tobacco products

Significant drop in prevalence of uninsured from 2013 to 2014; variation by occupation in both years

Burnout can have harmful effects for both patients and caregivers if left unaddressed

Elevated risk of overweight for formula-fed infants attenuated with adjustment for gut microbiota

Targeted sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, whole-genome bisulfite sequencing show potential

Increased mortality greater than excess linked to HTN, obesity, physical inactivity, high alcohol intake

But, older adults just as likely to see a primary care physician for mental health-related issues

Those younger than 85 years with MCI, amyloidosis, neurodegeneration have risk >50 percent

Ratings also differ significantly by specialty group

Higher risk of second hemorrhagic stroke in blacks, Hispanics, not fully explained by hypertension severity

Successful management likely for pretreatment with mifepristone followed by misoprostol

Meditation/stress reduction may be as effective aerobic training program in increasing activity