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• Surgeons Not Good at Predicting Benefit From Knee Operations Surgeons are no better at determining which patients might benefit from operations to treat torn knee cartilage than if they just flipped a coin, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Disparities in Access to Best Stroke Treatment Less than 10% of U.S. stroke patients get a treatment that evidence shows is most effective for ischemic stroke – and the odds are even lower for patients who are black and Hispanic, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Better Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer With MRI Plus Targeted Biopsy Prebiopsy multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) combined with targeted biopsy is associated with improved detection of clinically significant prostate cancer compared with transrectal ultrasonography-guided systemic biopsy alone, a systematic review and meta-analysis reveals.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Guselkumab May Have Edge Over Secukinumab in Long-Term Control of Psoriasis For moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, treatment with guselkumab was superior to secukinumab based on 90% or better improvement from baseline in patients' Psoriasis Area and Severity Index score (PASI 90) at 48 weeks in the ECLIPSE study.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Trump Rule Targeting Poor Immigrants Could Harm Children, Health - Advocates A Trump administration plan to cut legal immigration by poor people will likely result in sicker children, more communicable diseases and greater homelessness in the United States, according to immigrant advocates and the federal government's own analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Surgical Training Programs Not Supportive of New Parents Surgical residents say it's tough to have children during their five years of intensive training due to a lack of flexibility in program requirements and lack of support from peers and faculty.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• U.S. FDA Proposes New Health Warnings on Cigarette Packs, Advertisements The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed new health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements, as small size and lack of an image in current warnings make them virtually invisible.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Different Presentation Leads to Later Colorectal-Cancer Diagnosis in People Under 50 Presentation with nonspecific symptoms contributes to delays in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer in patients younger than 50, researchers in the U.K. report.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Islet-Allograft Tolerance Possible in Monkeys Without Long-Term Immunosuppression Long-term tolerance of islet allografts may be possible without prolonged immunosuppression, according to studies in monkeys.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Low Vitamin D Linked to Worse Parkinson's Symptoms Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have lower levels of vitamin D than their healthy peers, a new study confirms.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Finger-to-Nose Test May Refine Prehospital Stroke Recognition Adding the finger-to-nose (FTN) test to standard screening may better help paramedics to recognize posterior circulation ischemic stroke, according to findings from a small study.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Worse Short-Term Mortality Among Men With Prostate Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Men with prostate cancer and pre-existing cardiovascular disease (CVD) have worse short-term mortality following treatment with oral androgen-signaling inhibitors than do similar men without CVD, according to a database study.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• In Flood-Prone Southern India, Doctors Tend Mental Scars of Disasters
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Risk of Zika Microcephaly May Depend on Features of Maternal Antibodies The risk of Zika-associated microcephaly may depend on the features of antibodies produced by pregnant mothers in response to Zika infection, a finding that has implications for vaccine development, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Kremlin Warns of Foreign Espionage as Scientists Chafe Under New Restrictions The Kremlin said on Wednesday Russia must be vigilant in protecting its industrial secrets against foreign intelligence services after scientists criticized new restrictions on them meeting foreigners.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Climbers Must Be Trained to Tackle Everest, Panel Says After Deaths Nepal must make training and experience in high altitude climbing mandatory for all climbers on Mount Everest and other high peaks, a government panel said on Wednesday, following the deadliest climbing season in four years.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Novartis Says Top R&D Execs No Longer at Avexis Unit After Test Data Manipulation Novartis said on Wednesday the two top research & development executives at its Avexis unit were no longer at the company after some data from early testing of Avexis's more than $2-million gene therapy Zolgensma was manipulated.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Uganda Says Malaria Prevalence Surges, Cites Climate Change and Refugees Uganda said on Wednesday it had recorded a 40% surge in the incidence of malaria, attributing the increase to a range of factors including a refugee influx, climate change and a decline in the use of protective nets.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Athletics-Semenya Says She Never Felt Supported by Other Women Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya, who has been locked in a battle over her testosterone levels with athletics authorities, said on Wednesday that she has not felt supported by other women in sport.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019
• Big Companies Explore Virtual Care to Curb Healthcare Costs Big companies are increasing incorporating virtual technology and care options into employee benefit plans to combat the rising healthcare costs that long been corporate America's bugaboo, according to the annual survey of the National Business Group on Health.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2019