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Six-week assessment of risk, protective factors explains one-year functional, health outcomes

Promoting healthier eating in middle school more effective than adding physical activity

Since 2000, risks for therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome, AML up after chemo for solid cancers

Patients at risk for cardiovascular disease identified even with missing electronic health record data

In hand and wrist bones, epiphyseal fusion is initiated, completed earlier now than a century ago

In patients with hypertension, psoriasis linked to increased risk for cardiovascular procedures, surgeries

New rule has sensitivity, specificity of 84.1, 62.1 percent for patients receiving prehospital naloxone

However, patients said that psychoeducational group study was important intervention for their life

Most maintain personal hygiene by age 13, work independently by 20; 34 percent live independently

Higher incidence seen for in-hospital mortality, acute respiratory failure, acute kidney injury

Standard therapy more effective for female versus male patients with glioblastoma

Mean age at death significantly higher for survivors versus controls

Patients with hypertension with progressive cSVD have increased risk for mild cognitive impairment

However, large systematic review could not rule out harms from nonsugar sweeteners

More than one-quarter have little or no confidence they can afford health insurance over the next year

Compared with abstinence from alcohol, increased survival seen with moderate drinking

Pediatric mortality rate increased from 0.22 to 0.81 per 100,000; rates highest for 15- to 19-year-olds

Further, the system can justify its decisions using an atlas of training CT images