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• Sex-Specific Cutoffs for Mild Cognitive Impairment Improve Diagnostic Accuracy Current diagnostic cutoffs for amnesiac mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) lead to underdiagnosis of women and overdiagnosis of men, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Vitamins, Omega-3 Supplements May Improve Autism Symptoms Children with autism who take supplements of vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids may have fewer symptoms than kids who don't, a meta-analysis suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Secondhand Smoke May Damage Children's Eyes Secondhand smoke may damage children's eyes and possibly lead to problems with sight later in life, new findings suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Ebola Concentrated in Congo Mining Area, Still an Emergency -WHO Ebola is infecting and killing people in a gold mining area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the "complex and dangerous" outbreak still constitutes an international emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• More Evidence Links Common Bladder Drug to Retinal Damage Pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS), used widely for interstitial cystitis, may lead to retinal damage, according to a new study that adds weight to this previously suggested link.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Early Menopause Tied to Heart Problems Before 60 Women who go through menopause earlier in life may be more likely to have a heart attack or stroke before they reach age 60 than their counterparts who go through menopause later on, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Current and Ex Smokers May Lower Lung Cancer Risk With Exercise Men who are current or former smokers may be less likely to develop or die from lung cancer when they're more physically fit, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• US Vehicle Crashes Involving Child Pedestrians Declining Although motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of death for U.S. children, rates of crash fatalities involving kids on bikes or on foot continue to decline each year, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Therapeutic IBD Drug Concentrations May Vary With Different Assays In patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), concentrations of infliximab and adalimumab varied depending on whether they were assessed with the Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) or the Homogeneous Mobility Shift Assay (HMSA), researchers found.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Reoperation Unlikely After Midurethral-Sling Surgery Using Synthetic Mesh Up to nine years after midurethral-sling surgery with synthetic mesh for stress urinary incontinence, only a small minority of women will require reoperation, according to a large retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Trifluridine/Tipiracil Boosts Survival in Metastatic Gastric Cancer With or Without Gastrectomy Treatment with trifluridine/tipiracil (FTD/TPI, TAS-102) improves overall and progression-free survival in patients with metastatic gastric cancer, regardless of whether or not they have undergone gastrectomy, according to a subgroup analysis of the TAGS trial.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Ebola Survivors Battle Grief and Stigma in Eastern Congo Arlette Kavugho was discharged from an Ebola ward in eastern Congo in March, but her troubles did not end there.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Sanofi Pulls Zantac From U.S. and Canada After Carcinogen Found Sanofi SA said on Friday it would recall popular heartburn medicine Zantac in the United States and Canada, after the medicines were linked with a probable cancer-causing impurity.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• African Refugee Women Report Surge of Sex Attacks in Egypt The 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a Cairo apartment where she was repeatedly gang raped, only to realize that she had become pregnant by one of her attackers.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Newly Diagnosed Hodgkin Lymphoma Can Be Safely Managed During Pregnancy Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed during pregnancy can be safely managed without interruption of pregnancy in most cases, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• J&J to Recall Single Lot of Baby Powder as FDA Finds Traces of Asbestos Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it would recall a single lot of its baby powder in the United States after the Food and Drug Administration found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken from a bottle purchased online.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Postop Self-Removal of Foley Boosts Patient Satisfaction, Curbs Office Visits In patients with post-operative urinary retention after pelvic reconstructive surgery, self-removal of a transurethral catheter is noninferior to office-based removal and leads to fewer office visits and a better patient experience, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Heavy-Resistance Training Can Help Running Performance It's a myth that low-resistance, high-rep workouts that promote endurance are the best form of strength-training for runners, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• U.S. Ramps Up Testing in Search Vaping Illness Cause as Cases Near 1,500 U.S. health officials on Thursday reported another 180 cases of vaping-related lung illnesses and announced plans to start testing aerosols produced by e-cigarettes and vaping products as they search for the source of the nationwide outbreak that has so far killed at least 33 people in 24 states.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019
• Big Income Drops Tied to Heart Attack, Stroke
  Reuters Health Information, October 2019