Cannabis, or marijuana, has potential therapeutic and medicinal properties related to multiple compounds, particularly Δ-9- tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol. Over the past 25 years, attitudes toward cannabis have evolved rapidly, with expanding legalization of medical and recreational use at...
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Provision of a Drug Deactivation System for Unused Opioid Disposal at Surgical Dismissal: Opportunity to Reduce Community Opioid Supply
Objective
To determine the impact of a drug deactivation system to post-surgical patients on the rate of opioid prescription disposal.
Patients and Methods
Two hundred post-operative patients discharged after inpatient surgery at a large academic medical center. This study...
Routine Childhood Vaccines Given From 1 through 18 Years of Age
In addition to the vaccines due in the first year of life, the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that children continue to receive vaccines regularly against a variety of infectious diseases. Starting at 12 to 15 months of life, these include the two-dose measles-mumps-...
Oral lichen planus
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) serology: implications for clinical practice, laboratory medicine and public health
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Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline
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Recognizing Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Guide for Primary Care
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is an important cause of chronic low back pain and affects approximately 1% of the US population. The back pain associated with axSpA has a characteristic pattern referred to as inflammatory back pain (IBP). Features of IBP include insidious onset before age 45...
Association of Menopausal Hormone Therapy With Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality During Long-term Follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials
Abstract
Importance: The influence of menopausal hormone therapy on breast cancer remains unsettled with discordant findings from observational studies and randomized clinical trials.
Objective: To assess the association of prior randomized use of...
Acute and chronic neuropathies
Peripheral nerve disorders are common and often treatable. The ‘default’ presentation of a polyneuropathy is a chronic, length- dependent, sensorimotor axonopathy. Recognizing deviations from this default, informed by the clinical features and investigations, can help identify the cause of a...
Symptom Duration and Risk Factors for Delayed Return to Usual Health Among Outpatients with COVID-19 in a Multistate Health Care Systems Network — United States, March–June 2020
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Relatively little is known about the clinical course of COVID-19 and return to baseline health for persons with milder, outpatient illness.
What is added by this report?
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