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• Cataract Surgery for Senior Drivers Tied to Reduced Car Crash Risk, Costs Cataract surgery can significantly reduce car crashes involving senior drivers and the cost of those accidents to the community, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• One Year In, #Metoo Finding Fresh Battlefields Worldwide
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• U.N. Employee in Eastern Congo Tests Positive for Ebola - U.N. Memo A United Nations employee in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola, the first such incident during the current outbreak, the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) there said on Friday in a letter to staff.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Combining Drug Therapies for LUTS Can Optimize Treatment Certain drug combinations are more effective than monotherapy for treating non-neurogenic lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in some patients, according to a new systematic review including both men and women.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• DIY System Provides Negative-Pressure Temporary Abdominal Closure in Remote Settings A negative-pressure system assembled from readily available medical-surgical supplies can provide temporary abdominal closure without continuous suction in austere and remote settings.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Asymptomatic Visceral Leishmaniasis Common in Operation Iraqi Freedom Soldiers As many as one in five U.S. soldiers deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have serological evidence of asymptomatic visceral Leishmania infantum infection (AVL), researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Pangender or Demigirl? Australian Study Identifies More Than 30 Gender Options
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Asthma During Pregnancy Tied to Postpartum Depression Risk Women who have asthma during their pregnancies are more likely to experience postpartum depression after delivery, a large Canadian study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Doctors Move Away From Using Live Animals for Trauma Surgery Training An initiative to replace the use of live animals with a human simulator for trauma surgery practice prompted training programs in more than 20 countries to make the switch, saving them money in the process, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Pfizer Settles New York Probe Into 'Deceptive' Copay Coupons Pfizer Inc on Thursday settled charges by New York's attorney general that it misled consumers in its drug copayment coupon program into thinking they would pay far less to fill prescriptions than they ended up having to shell out.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Public Seems to Know Value of Clinical Trials, but Not How They Work Patients, their families and friends may see clinical trial research as important, yet they don't know much about the research process and see trial participation as burdensome, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Antibiotic Outcomes Comparable in Early Cutaneous Lyme Borreliosis Neither the treatment modality nor the antibiotic employed appears to have a notable impact on efficacy or adverse effects in patients with early cutaneous Lyme borreliosis, according to German researchers.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Clinical Disease Activity Scores Unreliable in Pediatric Crohn's Disease Clinical disease activity scores correlate only poorly with endoscopic severity in children with newly-diagnosed Crohn's disease (CD), researchers from Canada report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• WHO Sees Congo's Ebola Outbreak Lasting 3-4 Months at Least Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is expected to last several months and could spread at any time to Uganda or Rwanda, which are well prepared but have not approved use of a vaccine, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Shortened IV Antibiotic Course Works for Uncomplicated Group B Strep A shorter course of intravenous antibiotics was safe and effective for infants with uncomplicated, late-onset group B Streptococcus (GBS), in a retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Scientists Use Stem Cells and Gene Editing to Make Mice With Two Mums Chinese scientists said on Thursday they had used gene editing and stem cell techniques to produce healthy mice with two mothers which developed well enough to go on to have normal offspring of their own.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• PTEN Status Predicts Prostate Cancer Outcomes as Well as Multigene Panel PTEN loss by tumor immunohistochemistry (IHC) predicts prostate-cancer outcomes after radical prostatectomy as well as a commercial multigene panel does.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Invest in Children's Health and Education to Spur Economic Growth - World Bank
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Treatment Failure More Common With Local Gentamicin for Acute Periprosthetic Joint Infections Treatment-failure rates for early acute periprosthetic joint infections are higher when gentamicin-impregnated beads and/or sponges are applied during debridement, researchers from the Netherlands report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• Early Dialysis Not Better for Septic Shock Patients With Acute Kidney Injury Early renal-replacement therapy for patients in the initial phase of septic shock who have severe acute kidney injury is no better than delayed therapy, according to a French study of 488 patients that was stopped early for futility.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018