The agency's Advisory Committee for Vaccination Practices recommended Tdap for seniors on a routine basis, finally covering all age groups.
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The panel voted 20 to 2 in favor of approving Qnexa.
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Colonoscopic polypectomy could slash colorectal cancer mortality rates in half, but screening rates remain low.
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New criteria for assessing reproductive aging provide researchers and clinicians with a more nuanced, comprehensive tool for assessing the reproductive age of women and the transition to menopause.
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The nation's best hospitals for emergency care have a 40% lower death rate among Medicare patients compared with all other hospitals, a study by HealthGrades has found.
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Although mainstream medical societies have largely refrained from filing briefs in the ACA case before the Supreme Court, smaller societies have entered the fray.
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A new analysis of the NRMI registry also finds that women under 55 have the highest risk of death after MI.
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Critics suggest the wide field-of-view CT imaging protocol, which covers the body from the head to the pubic symphysis, does more harm than good for trauma patients.
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The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is a cost-effective alternative to 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Its effectiveness against nonbacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia is unclear.
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Compared with clinical practices that used traditional risk-assessment models, the systematic collection of a family history identified an additional 5% at high cardiovascular disease risk, according to researchers.
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The risk for febrile seizure increases after administration of the acellular pertussis vaccine, but the absolute risk remains small, and vaccination does not raise the risk of epilepsy.
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A new study is helping to tease out the contributions of different pregnancy complications to future CVD risk in women; the results show that the mechanisms linking each condition to CV risk likely differ.
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The Obama administration on Friday issued 2013 payment and policy guidelines for U.S. health insurers that participate in the Medicare Advantage program.
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Investigators working on the H5N1 influenza virus met under the auspices of the WHO in an effort to decide how to conduct and publish such research without endangering the public.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is warning that the head of the Spinbrush brand of electric toothbrushes can come off and injure the user.
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Congress must craft another solution to the Medicare reimbursement crisis later this year to avert a pay cut on January 1, 2013, that could top 30%.
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Although it averts a 27.4% Medicare pay cut for physicians set for March 1, the latest doc fix seems to leave everyone unhappy, especially physicians.
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US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gave no indication that her department would consider developing a different replacement for ICD-9, as the AMA had requested.
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Medicare reimbursement for advanced imaging tests would be cut significantly during the next decade, according to the proposed 2013 federal budget. Radiologists are vehemently opposing the plan.
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How effective is vinegar in lowering blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes?
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