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• A Tenth of U.S. Veteran Coal Miners Have Black Lung Disease -NIOSH More than 10 percent of America's coal miners with 25 or more years of experience have black lung disease, the highest rate recorded in roughly two decades, according to a government study that showed cases concentrated heavily in central Appalachia.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Systemic Changes May Reduce Gender Disparities in Medical Training Gender disparities in medical careers - in position, pay and publishing - start early, but even small systemic changes in training programs could begin to narrow these gaps, says a group of Harvard Medical School doctors.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Women Who Sued J&J Declare Victory After $4.69 Bln Talc Verdict A woman who claimed her cancer was caused by using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder for decades said she believes justice was served after a jury found the company should pay her and 21 other women $4.69 billion in damages.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Parents' Childhood Trauma Tied to Behavior Problems in Kids Parents who had a lot of traumatic or stressful experiences during childhood may be more likely to have kids with behavioral problems, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• U.S. Medigap Plans Fall Short on Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Tolvaptan Works Long Term in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease A new study demonstrates the long-term efficacy of the vasopressin-2 receptor antagonist tolvaptan in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Pioneering Plastic Surgeon in Transgender Care Dies at 96 Milton Edgerton helped found the first academic center for sex affirmation surgeries in the United States. He also performed groundbreaking craniofacial surgeries in children.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• New York Steam Pipe Blast Raises Asbestos Contamination Worry An early-morning steam pipe explosion on Thursday in New York, that sent a plume of vapor spewing into the air for hours, caused only minor injuries but may have left people and building facades contaminated with asbestos, officials said.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• EPA'S Watchdog Urges Better Water Oversight After Flint, Mich., Crisis The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was slow and ineffective in its response to the 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and needs to improve its communications with state and local regulators when citizen complaints arise, its internal watchdog said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Pharmacy Technician Charged in Case Tied to U.S. Meningitis Outbreak Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a pharmacy technician who worked at a hospital with making false statements during an investigation related to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the center of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Mersana's Cancer Drug Trial Put on Hold by FDA; Shares Halted Mersana Therapeutics said on Thursday an early stage trial testing its lead cancer drug has been put on partial hold by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after a patient's death was possibly linked to the treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Omega-3 Fatty Acids Disappoint in Cardiovascular Protection Although omega-3 fatty acids are widely used for protection against cardiovascular disease and related mortality, a Cochrane review challenges their' beneficial role, finding little, if any, protective benefit.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• More Nurse Practitioners Pursue Residency Programs to Hone Skills Proponents say the residencies provide help dealing with increasingly difficult cases, but some nursing groups contend that the programs are not necessary.
  Kaiser Health News, July 2018
• Brain Iron Levels a New Marker of MS Progression? Monitoring levels of iron in specific areas of the brain in patients with multiple sclerosis by using novel MRI may track disease progression and assess treatment efficacy in clinical trials, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• More Data Indicate Ondansetron Is Safe for Morning Sickness A large data set composed of two birth defect studies confirms there is little risk for teratogenicity when off-label ondansetron is taken for nausea and vomiting during the first trimester of pregnancy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Gene Variant Flags Risk for Drug-Induced Liver Injury in MS Researchers discovered a genetic difference that could identify people with multiple sclerosis at risk for drug-induced liver injury associated with interferon-beta therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Osteoporosis Sufferers May Benefit From Mediterranean Diet Following the Mediterranean diet could boost bone mineral density in patients with osteoporosis, although it has no discernible impact on bone parameters in healthy individuals, say European researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Foster Care in Early Life Tied to Higher Risk of Preterm Delivery Later Women who are placed in foster care as children may have an increased risk of preterm delivery, regardless of their own perinatal history, including being born preterm themselves, researchers in Sweden say.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Concussed Athletes With ADHD at Heightened Risk for Persistent Mood Changes Athletes with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) face a greater risk for developing symptoms of anxiety and depression after a concussion than their peers without ADHD, new research suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Embolization Not Ready for Prime Time in BPH-LUTS Treatment
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018