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Guidelines needed for outpatient opioid use after vaginal delivery
A study of pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid in Pennsylvania found that a small but significant percentage were filling opioid prescriptions...
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HHS pick Price made ‘brazen’ trades while committee was under scrutiny
Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Price showed little restraint in his personal stock trading during the 3 years that federal...
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Hypertensive disease of pregnancy linked to earlier mortality
LAS VEGAS - Women who develop any form of hypertensive disease during pregnancy are at a higher risk of death, at least until age 50.
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Optimal adjuvant endocrine therapy use in breast cancer remains elusive
Appropriate use of adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer has increased over the last decade, but optimal use has not been achieved.
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Toddlers’ neurodevelopmental deficits linked with maternal diabetes
Children born to obese mothers with insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes showed neurodevelopmental deficits at age 2 years.
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Our new year’s resolutions
Resolve to improve your use of electronic health records to make your life easier in the coming year.
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Capping gestational weight gain didn’t deliver better pregnancy outcomes
Behavioral interventions moderated gestational weight gain, but reduced weight gain wasn’t linked to better pregnancy outcomes.
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Travel ban affects international medical meetings
International medical conference leaders say the travel ban imposed by President Trump that blocks immigrants of seven Muslim countries from...
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VIDEO: Patient survey data yield useful information on acne and different contraceptives
WAILEA, HAWAII - A study that used patient-reported outcomes to assess the impact of different contraceptive methods on acne provided "fascinating...
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Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch as 9th Supreme Court justice
President Donald Trump has chosen Neil Gorsuch, a conservative judge who presides over Denver’s 10th Circuit, as his nominee for U.S. Supreme...
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Puerperal NSAIDs show no hypertension risk
New evidence helps refute a recent call to limit puerperal NSAID use for women who had severe preeclampsia during pregnancy and hypertension...