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The preventive treatment is safe and may provide clinical benefits in first year of life

Those with lower socioeconomic status, lower education level have reduced odds of being eligible

The ASHP Midyear 2018 Clinical Meeting & Exhibition The annual meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) was held from Dec. 2 to 6 in Anaheim, California, and attracted more than 20,000 participants from around the world, including pharmacy specialists, technicians, and other health care professionals. The conference featured educational sessions covering the […]

Three more states have reported illnesses; 87 new cases include 32 people who have been hospitalized

Expenditures lower for those cared for by docs in highest quintile of Bice-Boxerman continuity score

17.1 percent of patients reported having experienced one or more events in previous year

Number of cancer-preventive lifestyle behaviors increased with TF at sigmoidoscopy screening

Greatest number of deaths for bites from nonvenomous arthropods; rat bites most lethal

Greater patient delays accounted for 12 percent greater ischemic time among women in 2012 to 2016

Measures include hand hygiene, alcohol-based hand rub use, disinfection of anesthesia machine

At age 60, men with inflammatory bowel disease have higher values of prostate-specific antigen

Slower growth in health care spending mainly due to use and intensity of goods and services

Oxycodone, heroin, and fentanyl ranked first in 2011, 2012-2015, 2016; cocaine ranked second or third

Women with less than five, more than 10 hours of sleep, poor sleep quality at increased risk for falls

Risk for unexpected deaths increased in higher-dose antipsychotic group versus control group

Sildenafil and tadalafil not approved to be sold over the counter and are being sold illegally

Small number of reports include infections, vaginal irritation, localized vaginal injury

In most states, Saturday is the sign-up deadline for coverage beginning Jan. 1

Older women want breast reconstruction at rates similar to those of nonelderly breast cancer patients