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• As Virus Spreads to More Chinese Cities, WHO Calls Emergency Meeting An outbreak of a new coronavirus has spread to more Chinese cities, including the capital Beijing and Shanghai, authorities said on Monday, and a fourth case has been reported beyond China's borders.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• Parents Think Teens Spend Too Much Time Playing Video Games Most American parents think their teens spend too much time playing video games, but many of them also believe this is typical adolescent behavior, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• Top Cardiac Centers Offer Unproven 'Executive Screening' 'Executive screening' offers an expensive battery of tests to people willing to pay for assurance that they're healthy or to flag potential risk. But do these programs deliver? Could they even be harmful?
  Medscape Medical News, January 22, 2020
• Most Clinical Trials Still Don't Report Results Fewer than half of trials in an analysis met the FDA's 1-year window for reporting results. Unreported results can distort evidence, erode participants' trust, and waste resources.
  Medscape Medical News, January 22, 2020
• Manifestations of Nonfluent Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia Vary by Native Tongue English and Italian speakers with nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) display different patterns of speech impairment, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• Women Rarely Regret Decision to Get Abortion Five years after an abortion, most women still say it was the right decision even if they struggled with their choice at the time, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• Vitamin Cocktail for Sepsis Fails; PPI for Stress Ulcer Prevention May Be Risky: ICU Studies A major new study of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with septic shock failed to find a benefit of giving an intravenous cocktail of vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine, relative to hydrocortisone alone.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• Patient Risk Factors Should Determine Antimicrobial Choice for Community-Acquired Infection A new report may help identify hospitalized patients with community-acquired infection (CAI) in whom treatment guidelines do not apply.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• C. Difficile Carriage Rates Increase With Proximity to Livestock Farms Residence near a livestock farm is associated with an increased carriage rate of toxigenic Clostridioides difficile, a retrospective study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2020
• FDA Approves Micra AV, Offers Leadless AV Synchronous Pacing The approval extends use of Medtronic's leadless pacemaker system to patients with complete AV block, who would normally receive a conventional dual-chamber pacemaker.
  FDA Approvals, January 22, 2020
• Union Set to Strike Against Seattle Health System Nine months of bargaining prove fruitless; a shortage of health professionals is the major issue, as it was at Kaiser Permanente.
  Medscape Medical News, January 22, 2020
• New York Sues Trump Administration to Enforce Clean Air Act New York and Connecticut sued the Trump administration on Thursday, alleging it has failed to enforce the U.S. Clean Air Act and allowed five neighboring states to pump unhealthy levels of pollution into their states.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• For OAB in Men, Try Behavioral Therapy First, Researchers Say For men with overactive bladder, behavioral therapy alone may be the best first step in addressing the problem, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• SGLT2 Inhibitors Risky in Latent Autoimmune Diabetes Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors can cause ketoacidosis in patients with latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA), a report on three cases in the American Journal of Medicine confirms.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• What Will It Take to Lower the Cost of Insulin in the US? Mayo Clinic hematologist S. Vincent Rajkumar breaks down the complexity of the problem and outlines potential solutions.
  Medscape Medical News, January 22, 2020
• Gastric Bypass Beats Diet and Exercise for Reversing Diabetes People who undergo gastric bypass surgery are more likely to achieve remission of diabetes than those who try to lose weight by dieting and exercising, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• How Secrecy in U.S. Courts Hobbles Regulators
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• New Guideline Recommends Sodium Thiosulfate to Prevent Cisplatin-Induced Ototoxicity Sodium thiosulfate can be used to prevent cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in children and adolescents with cancer, according to a new clinical-practice guideline.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• In Japan, Foreign Parents Lead Charge Against Child 'Abduction' A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• Kids With Cancer: Music Therapy Ups Well-Being, but Underused For children with cancer, music therapy can build resilience and improve quality of life and outcomes. But in the US, experts warn that too few therapists could be putting the most vulnerable patients at risk.
  Medscape Medical News, January 22, 2020