Mixed Topics
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Telemedicine payment expansion?
SGLT-2 inhibitor vs. DPP-4 inhibitor: SGLT-2 linked to lower mortality and lower cardiovascular risks.
Conference Coverage
Most transgender teens not willing to delay hormone therapy to preserve fertility
TORONTO – Parents were more willing than were youth to delay hormones for fertility preservation but cared less than youth did about having...
Letters from Maine
Behavioral sleep interventions can work – if done
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Managing HIV with diabetes
Intranasal naloxone is promising for hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure.
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Too many antibiotics prescribed in urgent care
Gardasil 9 vaccination persists for three years when administered between 9 and 14.
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Less documentation highlights new Medicare fee proposal
The diabetes diagnosis that patients love to receive.
Guidelines
AHRQ National Guideline Clearinghouse shutting down
Although some stakeholders are interested in keeping it going, it’s unclear what that would look like and what role, if any, AHRQ would have.
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New guidelines could mean millions more with hypertension
SLE flares, including joint and neurologic flares, are linked to temperature and pollution in the Baltimore area.
From the Journals
Technology use by parents may worsen children’s behavior
Technoference was associated with lower coparenting quality in fathers only, and greater parent depressive symptoms in mothers only.
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the ACA
USPSTF says that nontraditional CVD risk factors are not ready for primetime.
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Sjögren’s syndrome recommendations are close
The CMS holds ACA risk adjustment payments following legal ruling.