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• Downward Trend in US Infant Mortality Rates Stalls Low birthweight accounts for the highest rate of newborn deaths in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Single-Visit Cervical Screening Strategy Picks Up Suspect Lesions A single-visit cervical cancer screening strategy, trialed in a low-income setting in China, maximizes detection rates and minimizes loss to follow-up at a very low cost of $6 per test.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Physician, Know Thyself When Communicating With Cancer Patients At the third consensus meeting for communication skills in Europe, experts recommended that physicians consider each patient to be unique and that they look inward to examine their own feelings about cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• PCOS 2018Immunotherapy Adverse Events More Common Than Initially Reported The rate of immunotherapy adverse events, as evidenced in real world data, is much higher than was previously reported in the pivotal clinical trials of these agents.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Death of a Teen Shows Dangers of Sniffing, Huffing to Get High The death of a Dutch teen serves as a grim reminder of the dangers associated with inhaling common household products, such as spray-on deodorant, keyboard dusters and whipped cream.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Colombia Acid Attack Survivor Calls for Greater Action to Help Other Victims
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Doctors Still Advise Against Marijuana for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Even though there are still a lot of unknowns about the effects of marijuana exposure in the womb and from breast milk, research to date still suggests that pregnant and nursing women avoid cannabis, U.S. doctors recommend.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Psoriasis Associated With Sexual Dysfunction People with psoriasis may be at increased risk of sexual dysfunction, particularly when they also suffer from mood disorders or arthritis, a research review suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• DNA-Repair-Gene Mutations Linked to More Aggressive Prostate Cancer Germline mutations in three DNA-repair genes (ATM and BRCA1/2) are associated with a greater likelihood of grade reclassification in men on active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Service Workers Say Supervised Injection Facilities Could Cut Restroom Overdoses During interviews about opioid overdoses in public restrooms, New York City service industry workers said they supported the idea of supervised injection facilities because such facilities might reduce injection drug use in their workplaces, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• ACAAI 2018Licking Pacifier to Clean It May Cut Allergy Risk A parent licking a child's pacifier clean might be better than washing it, and an epinephrine autoinjector still works after it is frozen, say two studies looking at questions parents want answers to.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• ACAAI 2018Patients With Food Allergies Rank Top Dining-Out Safeguards People who use more preventive strategies when eating out at a restaurant reduce the risk for a reaction, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• German Court Imposes Diesel Ban on Western Cities and Motorway A German administrative court on Thursday ruled that the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia must ban older diesel vehicles from parts of the nation's industrial heartland, including a busy motorway, in the latest extension of such bans in the country.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• DNA Firm Schooled in War Zones Helps ID California Fire Victims The remains of victims charred beyond recognition in the California wildfires are being identified by a pioneering DNA analysis company that primarily works in war zones and crime scenes.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Can Patient-Generated Data Help Regulate Medical Devices? An FDA panel discussed ways the agency can use patient-driven platforms -- including social media, digital health technology, and patient registry data -- to assist with regulatory evaluation of medical devices.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Millions at Risk Globally From U.S. Abortion 'Gag Rule' - Experts
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Tens of Thousands Die in Africa Each Year Due to Fake Drugs When Moustapha Dieng came down with stomach pains one day last month he did the sensible thing and went to a doctor in his hometown of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Safety and Time Are Women's Biggest Concerns About Transport - Global Poll
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• AHA 2018Biodegradable Polymer Stent No Better Than Xience at 10 Years Both drug-eluting stents showed reduced outcomes, including mortality, compared with an early device, but no difference between the stents at 10-year follow-up of the ISAR-TEST 4 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018One Size Doesn't Fit All: Surgery Benefits Vary by Obese Subtype Those with disordered eating may respond best to bariatric surgery, whereas those with extreme obesity of early onset may have less weight loss.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018