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Pregnancy boosts cardiac disease mortality nearly 100-fold
– Women with cardiac disease who became pregnant had a nearly 100-fold higher mortality rate, compared with pregnant women without cardiac disease, according to the outcomes of more than 5,700 pregnancies in an international registry of women with cardiac disease.[[{\"fid\":\"225892\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"Dr. Jolien Roos-Hesselink, ......(full story)
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Pertussis vaccine at birth shows immune response, tolerability
all newborns who received an acellular pertussis-only vaccine at birth showed titers for pertussis and no difference in adverse events, compared with a group receiving only the hepatitis B vaccine, a randomized clinical trial from Australia has found.[[{\"fid\":\"201476\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_right\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"Pertussis\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"copyright Jacopo Werther/Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons ......(full story)
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Global incidence of rosacea estimated to be over 5%
global incidence of rosacea among adults is approximately 5%, based on data from a meta-analysis and systematic review.[[{\"fid\":\"217722\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_flush_left\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_left\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"A woman with rosacea\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"Rosacea.org\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\"},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"1\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_left\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"A woman with rosacea\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"Rosacea.org\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\"}},\"attributes\":{\"alt\":\"A woman with rosacea\",\"class\":\"media-element file-medstat-image-flush-left\",\"data-delta\":\"1\"}}]]The National Rosacea Society Expert Committee recently updated its phenotype-based classification system, but the global ......(full story)
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Statins aren’t preventive in elderly unless they have diabetes
benefit of statins for primary prevention in older adult populations may depend on whether or not type 2 diabetes is present, results of a retrospective cohort study suggest.Statins had no protective effect overall in the study, which included adults older than 74 ......(full story)
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CT scans overused for children’s head traumas
one-third of children seen for head trauma visits in EDs underwent CT scans over a 9-year period in the United States, despite quality improvement initiatives to reduce unnecessary scans, based on a data from a cross-sectional survey published in Pediatrics.[[{\"fid\":\"225530\",\"view_mode\":\"medstat_image_flush_left\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_left\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"CT scan\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"©Thinkstock.com\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\"},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"1\":{\"format\":\"medstat_image_flush_left\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":\"CT scan\",\"field_file_image_credit[und][0][value]\":\"©Thinkstock.com\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]\":\"filtered_html\"}},\"attributes\":{\"alt\":\"CT ......(full story)
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