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Compliance with Ten Steps program linked to increased breastfeeding in African-Americans

Higher childhood blood lead levels linked to increase in general psychopathy

Racial differences in TTS did not explain racial differences in overall survival with breast-conserving sx

Three-week cast, simple orthosis noninferior to six-week cast for stable, isolated Weber B-type fibula fracture

Lower regional gray matter volume tied to higher peripheral BP in young adults aged 19 to 40 years

Average cost of hospitalization was $32,700 per patient; about 10 percent due to readmissions

For postmenopausal women, mortality risk increased with one serving fried chicken/fish per week

Increased-risk donors significantly more likely to have positive HBV, HCV screening results

23 measles cases confirmed and two more suspected cases under investigation

Odds of being in complete mental health up more than fourfold for those with at least one confidant

Mortality from opioid overdoses up with increase in marketing value/capita, payments to doctors

Bone marrow transplant not beneficial if no minimal residual dz after remission induction tx

2006 to 2017 saw increase in vaccination; drop seen in HPV detection in vaccinated, unvaccinated

Average reporting delay reduced from 11.2 to 2.7 days for critical image findings in simulation

Increases noted in total absolute looking time, number of fixations to eye region while viewing faces

Increases also noted in co-use of nonselective and selective benzodiazepine receptor modulators

Much of the increase due to decrease in hepatitis C virus infection as indication for transplant

Based on data from 13 trials with 164,225 participants, increased risk for major bleeding also noted