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Only 15.7 and 34.8 percent of teens completed HPV vaccination before turning 13 and 15

Revised risk score also improves newborn screening versus HLA genotyping alone

Program uses Bluetooth-enabled monitoring, patient coaching by nurse practitioners and pharmacists

Three areas include defining organizational aspects, use of deliberative process, examining impact

Difference driven by suicide among women, which was more than threefold higher

Patient outcomes improved compared with traditional perioperative education

Americans also less likely to report difficulty affording eyeglasses from 2014 on versus 2008

Fourfold increase seen in rate of coprescribing with opioids; twofold increase with other sedating meds

Higher childhood blood lead levels linked to increase in general psychopathology

In both sexes, higher lean body mass in childhood, adolescence linked to higher lung function at 15

Thrombin generation assay may allow more accurate determination of anticoagulation adequacy

Virtual video visits highly ranked by patients for quality, convenience

However, oncologists overwhelmingly interested in learning more

Among patients with previous complete response to HCC tx, DAA not linked to overall or early recurrence

Current smokers had increased risk for measures of subclinical peripheral artery disease

Duration of two hours or shorter between dinner and bedtime did not influence HbA1c changes

Findings in patients with early Parkinson disease evaluated over the course of 80 weeks

In women, height, BMI at age 68 to 70, and change in BMI impact odds of reaching longevity

Average donor-derived cell-free DNA in highest tertile linked to increased risk for allograft failure