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 | With pregnant women facing higher chances of acquiring HIV and greater dangers of life-threatening complications as a result of HIV,in addition to risks of passing the virus to their children,some of the most ambitious and promising developments in HIV prevention will be those that allow women to protect themselves both from the [...] Evidence-based,well-implemented,and enforced gun policies can reduce gun violence,and this vision can be realized with the help of physicians. As the details of policy proposals unfold and the public and policymakers weigh the options,this commentary presents 5 strategies for physician engagement in these discussions. Annals of Internal Medicine Current Issue [...] Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) NEW YORK Positive signs from the nearly completed first stage of a prospective prevention trial for cardiac neonatal lupus are giving investigators hope that hydroxychloroquine can reduce the risk… Rheumatology News Understanding Evidence is a new,interactive web resource that supports public health practitioners in making evidence-informed decisions around violence prevention. This free,online resource offers practitioners and others working to prevent violence important knowledge and resources for using evidence in their decision making processes. Women’s Health RSS According to the National Cancer Institute,1 in 8 women will receive a diagnosis of breast cancer during their lifetime,making it the most common nonskin cancer in females. It is a disease… Internal Medicine News A chart of clinical research trials seeking ways to control HIV transmission makes for an impressive display of tenacity,with interrupted trials,ongoing trials,trials that led to other trials,and new trials in their earliest stages. It includes trials of microbicides,vaccines,antiretroviral-drug-based approaches and all of that in different combinations. It includes [...] Observational studies on dietary or circulating magnesium and risk of hypertension have reported weak-to-modest inverse associations,but have lacked measures of actual dietary uptake. Urinary magnesium excretion,an indicator of intestinal magnesium absorption,may provide a better insight in this association. We examined 5511 participants aged 28 to 75 years free of hypertension in the [...] |
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