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• Digitally Scanned Slides May Suffice for Diagnosing Some Skin Conditions
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Study Links Pollution to Millions of Deaths Worldwide Pollution is killing millions of people worldwide, mostly through the diseases it causes including heart conditions, strokes and lung cancer, according to a large international study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Beauty Standards May Be Broadening Americans have grown to appreciate beauty across more skin types and ages during the past three decades, if People magazine is any indication, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• New H7N9 Bird Flu Strain in China Has Pandemic Potential Lab experiments on a new strain of the H7N9 bird flu circulating in China suggest the virus can transmit easily among animals and can cause lethal disease, raising alarms that the virus has the potential for triggering a global human pandemic, researchers reported online October 19 in Cell Host & Microbe.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Novel First-in-class Agent Shows Promise in Wilson's Disease In patients with Wilson’s disease, once-daily oral treatment with bis-choline tetrathiomolybdate rapidly lowered free copper levels, which correlated with reduced disability, improved neurological status, and stable liver function in an open-label phase 2 study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• At-risk Women Often Not Tested for Rectal Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Fewer than 1 in 1,000 women who undergo genital testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea also undergo rectal testing for those conditions, U.S. researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Paleo Diet May Contribute to Iodine Deficiency Older women on a Paleolithic diet – which tries to mimic the diet of cavemen living in the stone age - may be more likely to develop iodine deficiency than their counterparts who don’t eat this way, a small Swedish experiment suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Do Older Women Who Use Bisphosphonates Need Fewer Knee Replacements? The rate of knee replacement surgery among older women with knee osteoarthritis is lower in those who take bisphosphonates than in those who don't, according to a database study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Acurate Neo Valve Holds Its Own Against Sapien 3 Both transcatheter valves had very high success rates, with one study author suggesting the Acurate Neo, investigational in the US, "is more or less an all-comer valve like the Sapien."
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• ANA Inotersen Shows Efficacy in Hereditary ATTR Improvements in neurologic and quality-of-life endpoints were seen in patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy by using the investigational drug inotersen; side effects were called 'monitorable.'
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• 'Magic Mushrooms' Effective for Severe Depression Psilocybin, the active compound in 'magic mushrooms,' has been shown to improve a variety of psychiatric conditions, including depression. A study focuses on the neurobiology underlying its effect.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• TAVR Looms Large in First AUC Document for Severe Aortic Stenosis There are more treatment options than ever before, but guidelines only go so far when the patient is 90-something, frail, and with multiple chronic disorders, for example.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• With ACA, Uninsured New Cancer Patients Hit Historic Low States with Medicaid expansion see biggest decreases in uninsured patients with newly diagnosed cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• IPS Sexting: The New Threat to Adolescents? Is sexting just a harmless form of sexual expression, or is this widely prevalent phenomenon causing irreparable damage to adolescents?
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• New CDC Guidance on Caring for Infants With Congenital Zika Updated guidance on caring for infants born to possibly Zika-infected mothers is stratified by the infant's clinical status and includes new clinical, laboratory, and monitoring recommendations.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• YAG Laser Treats Symptomatic Vitreous Floaters YAG laser treatment of symptomatic Weiss ring floaters was superior to sham treatment in a small clinical trial.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Hypothyroidism Related to Cancer Treatment Linked to Increased Survival Patients developing overt hypothyroidism associated with cancer treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors show significant gains in survival.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• RN Cohorts Becoming More Educated, Diverse New registered nurses are significantly more diverse as a group, and more nurses have obtained or are pursuing bachelor's degrees, a study has found.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Brain Training Boosts Cognition in Bipolar Disorder A computer-based cognitive training program improved cognitive function in patients with bipolar disorder, with results that lasted beyond the training period.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Joint Commission Leaves Telehealth Alone The accreditor pulls back from imposing new provider requirements that, in some cases, would be more restrictive than state laws.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017