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Findings do not support tamsulosin treatment for symptomatic urinary stones <9 mm

Medicare downgraded rating of some homes for failing to be staffed every day with a registered nurse

Experts suggest warning patients to use caution at music concerts, fireworks, and around lawnmowers

Exposure to alcohol through breastmilk linked to reduction in cognitive ability at age 6 to 7 years

An initiative of AHRQ, guideline.gov now offline due to lack of federal funding

79 people have fallen ill; 18 people have been hospitalized; no deaths reported to date

Patient probably contracted infection from being licked by his dog

Canadian guideline addresses asymptomatic, low-risk pregnant women during the first trimester

Branched-fenestrated EVAR rapidly disseminated into national practice since 2011

Front desk staff should be trained, and should not be assigned to billing at same time as answering calls

Herbal, chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, yoga most commonly used individual therapies

UCH-L1, GFAP test has high sensitivity and negative predictive value for patients with TBI

Incorporating LHWs into cancer care increases goals-of-care documentation, patient satisfaction

Replacing medium-, large- with small-caliber guns would reduce gun homicides by 39.5 percent

Patient’s clinical symptoms related to heart failure improved markedly within two weeks of treatment

Most common format of program is combination of lectures, workshops, and seminars

Field could advance more quickly if data from research participants, consumers got to clinic

Physicians need to accept that the health care industry is changing and that change is difficult

10 percent increase in patient volume resulted in seven-fold greater increase in hours on diversion

Risk of hospitalization also reduced for RA patients receiving influenza vaccination