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TTVR plus optimal medical therapy yields greater improvement in disease-specific and general health status than OMT alone

In those with known/suspected sleep apnea, dementia risk was 4.7 percent higher in women and 2.5 percent higher in men

By Robin Foster HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Nov. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.The World Health Organization first declared the mpox …

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Nov. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Low-income patients’ access to blockbuster weight-loss drugs through Medicaid remains limited, a new KFF analysis has found.Only 13 states currently allow Medicaid to cover treatment of obesity using glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist (GLP-1) medications, researchers discovered.Under the Medicaid system, individual …

Improvement seen in dietary component scores, including whole fruits, whole grains, fatty acids, refined grains, added sugars

Nurse burnout also tied to worse patient safety outcomes and lower patient satisfaction

Maximal survival benefit seen for smoking cessation treatment within six months of diagnosis

Authors say increasing readiness would save thousands of children's lives each year

Score based on eight independent binary clinical variables

Most people erroneously think pancreatic cancer occurs only in older people and that they cannot alter risk