New data from the CDC indicate that smoking rates are on the decline and smokers are smoking less, but there’s still room for improvement. Medscape Medical News
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A new study suggests reducing sodium intake, especially in older physically inactive adults, might help preserve cognitive function, independent of hypertension. Medscape Medical News
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Researchers say that identifying mild cognitive impairment in routine primary care encounters should be given a “higher priority.” Medscape Medical News
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Multiple lifestyle factors reduced incident diabetes risk by as much as 80%, according to new National Institutes of Health-American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health Study findings. Medscape Medical News
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(MedPage Today) — Despite regulations that limit their work hours, one-third of U.S. medical residents who responded to a national survey were dissatisfied with their work-life balance and half of them had symptoms of burnout.
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(MedPage Today) — Medical schools gave about five hours of classroom time to the healthcare needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients, a survey revealed.
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(MedPage Today) — Smoking prevalence in the U.S. has fallen over the last five years, but not at a consistent rate, CDC researchers said.
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(MedPage Today) — Future physicians exhibited an implicit preference for white and upper-class individuals, but clinical assessments were unaffected, responses to a survey and vignettes that mimicked common physician-patient encounters showed.
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(MedPage Today) — Infections with Babesia protozoan parasites — normally a tickborne disease — from blood transfusions have escalated recently, suggesting that the blood supply is increasingly at risk for contamination, CDC researchers said.
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Alcobra Ltd. announced today top-line results from a six week, randomized, placebo-controlled, Phase II multi-center study designed to assess the safety and efficacy of MG01CI in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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