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Suicide rate higher than average for female clinicians
Male health care practitioners are less likely than all working-age men to die by suicide.
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The age of maximum misery, and why Marcus Welby was gray
And grab your buzzers, contestants: It’s time to play “Good news IS bad news!”
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Sleep apnea’s got your tongue, and singin’ in the kerosene rain
Plus, unlike Dunaway and Beatty, we have the correct winners of this year’s invention Oscars.
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Oral lichen planus prevalence estimates go global
New meta-analysis comes with a large caveat about “high heterogeneity of the included studies.”
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Invasion of the body-snatcher DNA, and pediatric ‘La Niña’s revenge’
Plus, find out what America’s been putting into the reporting orifice of our national injury database.
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Flu records most active December since 2003
The CDC estimates that 6.4 million flu illnesses and 55,000 hospitalizations have occurred so far this season.
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Vermont tops America’s Health Rankings for 2019
Mississippi wins/loses its annual battle for the bottom with Louisiana.
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Early increase in flu activity shows no signs of slowing
Outpatients visits are already higher than at any time last season, and the peak occurs most often in February.
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HealthCare.gov enrollment ends with unexpected extension
Trump administration brings stability to “what remains a failed experiment,” the CMS administrator said.
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EVALI readmissions and deaths prompt guideline change
Approximately one in seven deaths from vaping-related lung injuries have occurred after discharge.
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Influenza activity continues to be unusually high
Outpatient visits for flu are at their highest mid-December rate since 2003.
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Human hair’s super strength and boiled diabetes
Plus, why getting humans to deliver their level best may demand an off-kilter toilet seat.
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Flu activity dropped in early December
Unusual early spike related to increased influenza B activity, CDC says.