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• Mobility Plan Gets Hospitalized Patients Moving Hospitalists at the University of Pennsylvania outline the mobility plan used at their institution to decrease the adverse effects of bedrest among hospitalized patients.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• China Pushes for Lower Cancer Drug Prices - Xinhua China's new medical insurance regulator will begin negotiations with domestic and overseas pharmaceutical companies to lower prices of cancer drugs in a bid to cut the financial burden on patients, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Clean Water for All Is Still Centuries Away, Aid Group Warns
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Transcutaneous Implants Helpful in Pediatric Aural Atresia Transcutaneous osseointegrated implantation is an effective option for children with aural atresia, according to a case review.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Smart Bandage Can Detect Infection, Deliver Targeted Treatment An experimental "smart bandage" could monitor wound healing and deliver drugs as needed in a closed-loop fashion, reducing the need for painful dressing changes in patients with chronic wounds.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Thailand Gave Diplomatic Immunity to Australian Medical Team in Cave Rescue Thailand gave diplomatic immunity to three Australians who helped a boys' soccer team escape from a flooded cave, in case "something went wrong", its foreign minister said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Bill Gates, Others Commit $30 Million to Fund Alzheimer's Test Backed by Bill Gates and others, the Diagnostics Accelerator venture fund will provide grants to researchers working on novel biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer's and related dementias.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Not All Adults Think Nicotine 'Definitely Harmful' to Kids While most adults know nicotine is bad for children, smokers and some other individuals aren't convinced of this fact, according to a U.S. study that suggests a need for more public education about the risks of tobacco.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• AIDS 2018Benefits, Risks of Dolutegravir Center Stage at AIDS 2018 Potentially game-changing data on HIV treatment will be presented at the International AIDS Conference, but policies that make treatment and prevention difficult will also be discussed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Little Difference Between Basal Insulin Analogs for Type 2 Diabetes Evidence comparing old versus new insulin analogs is poor quality. There are 'many options' and 'high price tags' but 'little ability to discern the potential benefits of one...versus another,' said one commentator.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Risky Collateral DNA Damage - Study Scientists studying the effects of the potentially game-changing gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 have found it can cause unexpected genetic damage which could lead to dangerous changes in some cells.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Police Killings Tied to Poor Mental Health in Blacks Black individuals in the US are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police, but new research suggests it's the killing of unarmed blacks that negatively affects mental health in the community.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• CHAMP-HF: Heart Failure Treatment in US Remains Subpar Major gaps remain in use and appropriate dosing of guideline-recommended medications for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Canagliflozin Renal Outcomes Study Is Halted Early for Efficacy Hope that observed renoprotective effects of SGLT2 inhibitors will delay worsening of kidney disease in type 2 diabetes seems to be borne out, as the CREDENCE trial is stopped early.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Opioid Prescribing in Teens Still High, but Tide May Be Turning Efforts to reduce opioid prescribing do not appear to have affected prescribing among adolescents as much as desired.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Combo of RT and Chemoimmunotherapy: Best for Early FL? For early follicular lymphoma, a randomized study finds that the combination of radiation therapy and chemoimmunotherapy works better than radiotherapy alone. Will this change practice?
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Wide Variation in Surgeons' Attitude Toward Node Dissection Substantial variation exists among US surgeons in how likely they are to omit axillary lymph node dissection in early breast cancer despite recommendations to do so under well-defined circumstances.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Systematic Reviews of AMD Therapy Often Miss Quality Standards Systematic reviews of interventions for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are often of poor quality and frequently fail to report conflicts of interest, according to new research in JAMA Ophthalmology.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Research Network Updates Treatment Guidance for Patellofemoral Pain The latest research continues to support six key recommendations on exercise therapy and physical interventions for patellofemoral pain, according to a consensus statement from the 5th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Age Threshold of 50 for New Zoster Vaccine Not Cost-Effective: Study The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) guideline that recommends the new recombinant adjuvanted zoster subunit vaccine (RZV) over the live attenuated zoster vaccine (ZVL) and lowers the vaccination age to 50 years is not cost-effective, according to a new analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018