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Roughly 49 million people aged 12 years or older in the US lived with a substance use disorder in 2022, and about 59 million people lived with a mental illness, according to numbers from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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An estimated 54 million people in the US experienced chronic pain in 2020. Recent data suggest that roughly 1 in 4 of those people use solely pharmacologic interventions and might be missing out on nondrug approaches to manage their pain, researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Although the proportion of people vaccinated against measles grew to 86% worldwide between 2000 and 2019, that number fell to 81% during the COVID-19 pandemic and still has not returned to prepandemic levels. The decline has left millions vulnerable to the virus, which can cause complications including encephalitis and death, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization wrote in a joint report.
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This Medical News article discusses a new study that identified how business have pivoted marketing of unapproved stem cell and exosome products from COVID-19 to long COVID.
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This Medical News article discusses why physicians don’t stop prescribing drugs that may no longer be needed.
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This Insights in the Women’s Health series describes perinatal depression (occurring prepregnancy through postpartum periods) and new recommendations and treatment guidelines for this condition.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a retired family physician recalls sitting with her mother in the final minutes of her life after the ventilator has been removed.
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This Viewpoint discusses ways in which clinical research directly and indirectly contributes to anthropogenic climate change, highlights the need for increased scientific soundness and value in research, and calls for the development of tools for calculating the environmental impact of studies and a strategy for ensuring that research does not compromise the rights and welfare of nonparticipants and future generations.
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Using tools such as crowdsourcing, machine learning, and molecule simulations, an open-science campaign known as COVID Moonshot Consortium drove the formulation of novel potential antiviral treatments for COVID-19, according to results published in Science.
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Primary care clinicians often prescribe second-line antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones as their first choice for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs) in Germany, despite recommendations to first try nonantibiotic treatment for people with mild to moderate UTIs as a way of preventing antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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