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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

People who are overweight or obese represent a high-risk population in prediabetes management. Did doctors deliver advice on lifestyle change to the overweight and obese population adequately in prediabetes management? People could get knowledge of prediabetes and lifestyle management from various sources to develop self-awareness.

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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

A struggle for enough staffing When the federal government launched the readmission penalty program in 2013, staff with OSF HealthCare knew their readmission rates fueled by bouncebacks from SNFs were running between 18% and 25%. It also has a 30-day readmission rate that’s dramatically below what it used to be.

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Long-Term Cancer Risk After Active Surveillance

Physician's Weekly

Analyses were stratified by age at diagnosis (<30 years, ≥30 years), calendar period (1998–2012, 2013–2020), and index cytology (non-high-grade, high-grade). The primary outcome was vulvar, vaginal, anal cancer, or precancer. Secondary outcomes included low-grade lesions of the vulva, vagina, and anus.

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Seeking Nature Healing

Doctor Rachel

I need to be alone and in nature—with less of the civilized world I manage on the regular (e-mail, texts, social media, phone calls, and traffic) and more birdsong, trees, flowing water and sky. And healing the earth requires that we heal our human frailty. Keniger, L. Gaston, K. Irvine, K. N., & Fuller, R.

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Probiotics don’t improve outcomes in children with acute gastroenteritis

PEMBlog

Pediatrics, 2013. 2013 Sep;38(5):467-76. Epub 2013 Jul 10. References Schnadower D, Tarr PI, Casper TC, Gorelick MH, Dean JM, O’Connell KJ, Mahajan P, Levine AC, Bhatt SR, Roskind CG, Powell EC, Rogers AJ, Vance C, Sapien RE, Olsen CS, Metheney M, Dickey VP, Hall-Moore C, Freedman SB. Szajewska et al. doi: 10.1111/apt.12403.

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The Great RIF(T): One FDA Division’s Destruction and What it Could Mean for Generic Drugs

FDA Law

Managing the process of issuing Covered Product Authorizations (CPAs) under the CREATES Act. OGDP is one of several offices in OGD, and it was composed of three divisions: the Division of Legal and Regulatory Support, the Division of Orange Book Publication and Regulatory Assessment, and the Division of Policy Development (DPD).

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Quiet on the Set? Forbidding FDA To Take Photographs During An Inspection Can Be Regrettable

FDA Law

Management, according to the Warning Letter, “stated that the investigators were not allowed to take photographs of the equipment as part of the inspection.” To be clear, as we discussed in a blogpost back in 2013 , the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act does not explicitly require companies to permit photographs to be taken.