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But few VA hospitals require vaccination for health care professionals, with no change

New estimate puts hurricane-related deaths at 4,645; many attributed to delayed, interrupted health care

Symptoms are unreliable for establishing presence of reflux in patients with minor psychiatric disorders

E-cigarettes most commonly used product among middle-, high-school students with, without asthma

Direct supervision in which attending physicians join work rounds does not affect medical error rate

Use of Universal Precautions Toolkit recommended for improving quality of care

Increased disease-free, overall survival for premenopausal women with breast cancer

Logistics of collecting and transporting feces was recurrent theme impeding stool donation

Recording of bowel sounds allowed for IBS diagnosis with high sensitivity and specificity

No significant difference in composite outcome of death, major disability for extremely preterm infants

Visit rates for females exceeded that for males; rates for infants, seniors exceeded that for those age 1-64

Screening, counseling advised for adults, including pregnant women; evidence lacking for teens

Fulphila, biosimilar to Neulasta, helps reduce risk of infection during cancer treatment

Two lots of Naloxone recalled due to potential presence of particulate matter in syringe plunger

No clinically relevant reduction in inpatient opioid use, costs for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty

Positive results seen for autologous infusions of expanded regulatory T lymphocytes in three patients

Group was mostly low-income, minority; one-third had too-low or too-high plasma folate levels

Using implicit and explicit measures, researchers find negative bias toward frozen versus fresh vegetables

In year 1, 13 percent did not undergo MRI or mammography; up to 19 percent by year 5

48-year-old woman taking biotin had abnormal results for multiple tests, including total testosterone