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'Surprise' Question Effective at Predicting End of LifeA simple tool may be able to help predict which patients with cancer may be in their final year of life.
Medscape Medical News, October 08, 2015

FDA OKs Multipathogen Nucleic Acid Test for CNS InfectionsThe FilmArray Meningitis/Encephalitis Panel tests for 14 bacterial, viral, and yeast pathogens, and provides results in 60 minutes.
FDA Approvals, October 08, 2015

Infant Stool Exposes Maternal Drug Use During PregnancyThe first feces from a newborn can reveal maternal illicit drug use as far back as the twelfth week of gestation. A 'significant' number of women tested positive in a recent pilot study.
Medscape Medical News, October 08, 2015

Suicide Rate Almost Double in Patients With MSPatients with multiple sclerosis are at increased risk for attempted suicide and for completed suicide vs the general population, and higher education may not always be protective, new data show.
Medscape Medical News, October 08, 2015

HRT Guidelines Favor Individualized Approach to MenopauseThe US Endocrine Society's new guidelines on the treatment of menopausal symptoms favors HRT in carefully selected women who are both bothered by their symptoms and who want to take it.
Medscape Medical News, October 08, 2015

New Findings May Revolutionize Approach to Autism EducationRepetitive training, used widely in autism education, may hinder the learning process by promoting inflexibility, a new study with potentially 'earthshaking' implications shows.
Medscape Medical News, October 08, 2015

Physician Ebola Survivor Describes Lasting EffectsThe virus was found teeming in a chamber of Dr Crozier's eye months after his hospital discharge, which raises questions about the ability of the virus to hide in 'sanctuary' spaces.
Medscape Medical News, October 08, 2015

Healthcare providers should encourage most adult women and teens to consider long-acting reversible contraception, ACOG says.

Value-Based Payments: But Is There Any Value for Doctors? This new care-management strategy pays physicians for raising the bar on quality while reducing costs. But the price to fully embrace it figures to be quite high. Here's what you need to know.
Medscape Business of Medicine, October 8, 2015
Former Head of CMS Berwick Says, 'Things Will Never Go Back' Don Berwick, MD, former head of CMS, talks about the ACA's future; healthcare changes for physicians; burdensome reporting requirements
Medscape Business of Medicine, October 7, 2015

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California

ESC 2015: Positive-in-the-Wrong-Direction Trials, and OthersA discussion of the lessons from some of the negative trials from ESC, and what registries and clinical trials can teach.
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