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6%) versus usual care 41/141 (29.1%); Odds Ratio 0.48; 95% CI 0.26-0.92; p=0.03). BGB-8035 There was no PHQ-9 difference at 12 months or for health related quality of life at any point (4 or 12 months).

Self-help using BA for older people at risk of depression is a feasible and scalable intervention with potential short-term benefits in preventing depression.
Self-help using BA for older people at risk of depression is a feasible and scalable intervention with potential short-term benefits in preventing depression.Phthalates, widely used as plasticizers, are contained in many everyday products. Human biomonitoring studies detect their presence in biological fluids of a large part of the population worldwide. Maternal exposure during pregnancy has been related with aberrations in the reproductive growth of male infants. Rodent studies show that gestational exposure to single phthalates elicits reproductive toxicity in both sexes. Early aberrations include inhibition of gonadal sex determining gene expression and steroidogenesis, histopathology, and disturbed gametogenesis, leading later in life to dysfunctions in sperm production and oocyte reserves. Animal studies of in utero exposure to mixtures of phthalates, better mimicking human exposures, revealed analogous reproductive dysfunctions with the single compounds, but also indicated the combined actions and cumulative effects exerted by these chemicals. Further understanding the underlying mechanisms and the species differences in phthalate-induced reproductive toxicity will help to improve the risk assessment for human exposure to these toxicants.
Children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) are at risk for adrenal crises in the perioperative period and require higher doses of glucocorticoids. However, there are no specific protocols detailing the appropriate stress dosing required for children with CAH undergoing surgery with anesthesia.

To evaluate CAH patients using our current hydrocortisone stress dose surgical protocol. We hypothesized that current clinical protocols may overestimate the endogenous response to perioperative stress.

14 children with CAH scheduled to have genital surgery and a control group of 10 unaffected children scheduled to have cardiac or urologic surgery (of a similar duration) were evaluated in a prospective observational study. Urinary free cortisol (UFC) and urinary 17-hydroxycorticosteroids (17-OHCS) per body surface area were measured in the postoperative period.

UFC levels were significantly higher in CAH patients (115.8±24.6nmol/m
) than in controls (26.5±12.2nmol/m
), P<0.05.17-OHCS levels were alsn pediatric CAH patients in order to develop optimal stress dose regimens.
Weight loss is an advantageous quality for diabetic medications because it can improve insulin sensitivity and glucose control and reduce cardiovascular risk factors and comorbidities. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors are both preferred agents for use after metformin therapy, and both cause modest weight loss.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the difference in weight loss between GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

This was a retrospective study that was conducted at a level 3 patient-centered medical home in Buffalo, NY. The participants were adults with T2D treated with either a GLP-1 receptor agonist or an SGLT-2 inhibitor, in addition to background diabetes medications, between January 1, 2012, and September 20, 2017. The outcome measures included the median weight loss after 6 months of consecutive therapy compared between the 2 antidiabetic classes and the median differences in blood pressure, glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) levels, and renal function markers compared between the 2 classes.

A total of 73 patients were included in the final analysis, with 31 receiving SGLT-2 inhibitors and 42 receiving therapy with GLP-1 receptor agonists. The SGLT-2 inhibitor cohort presented a median weight loss of -2.80 kg (interquartile range [IQR] -5.40 to -1.50), and the GLP-1 receptor agonist cohort presented a median weight loss of -1.15 kg (IQR -3.38 to 0.975) (P= 0.014). There were no statistically significant differences in A1C levels, blood pressure, or renal function markers.

SGLT-2 inhibitors, when used in combination with background diabetes regimens, can lead to more statistically significant weight loss than GLP-1 receptor agonists without compromising renal function.
SGLT-2 inhibitors, when used in combination with background diabetes regimens, can lead to more statistically significant weight loss than GLP-1 receptor agonists without compromising renal function.Pharmacists are caught in the throes of a relentless overdose crisis that has already claimed half a million lives and threatens to claim thousands more. The addiction treatment system is fragmented and inadequate to meet demand. Few physicians provide medications for opioid use disorder (MOUDs), the most effective form of evidence-based treatment, and insufficient treatment options leave patients vulnerable to overdose. Pharmacists routinely interact with patients who have OUD but lack ways to treat them. The primary tools that pharmacists have received to curb the crisis are prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), big data surveillance technologies that they can use to track patients' medication acquisition patterns. Pharmacists like PDMPs because they help them make decisions efficiently. However, PDMPs are enforcement technologies, not health care tools; therefore, pharmacists typically use PDMPs to police patients instead of treating them. Policing patients not only fails to help combat overdose, but can also exacerbate harm. Informed by a decade's worth of interviews with pharmacists before and after PDMP implementation, I argue that pharmacists should be better equipped to help patients with OUD. Specifically, clinical and community pharmacists should mobilize to provide MOUDs through collaborative practice agreements with physicians. Studies show that collaborative practice models are effective at reducing the risk of overdose and saving money and physicians' time. And pharmacists have the clinical competencies necessary to provide MOUDs for patients. Pharmacists must overcome legal, economic, and interprofessional barriers to do so, but giving pharmacists the tools to treat patients will affirm their professional commitment to caring for patients and saving lives.
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