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In-Person Offers Most Effective for Self-Sampling Cervical Cancer Screening
About 12 percent of those who received a self-sampling kit in the mail returned the self-sample
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Updated opioid safety labeling is based on new data from two large postmarketing observational studies
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Among severely impaired and terminally ill nursing home residents, about one-third of all-cause hospitalizations are potentially avoidable
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Most life-years saved were among people aged 60 years or older; estimates are more conservative than those that focused on the first year of vaccination
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76 percent of the children in the study had no significant medical history; 27 percent of patients died
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Filipino Americans have the highest mortality across most cardiovascular conditions
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