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Eye tracking may help quantify the severity of disconjugate eye movements associated with concussion and brain injury

Eye Tracking Could Quantify Symptoms of Brain Injury

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Could serve as measure of severity of concussion-related ocular motility disruption
Boys who start playing tackle football before the age of 12 may face a higher risk for neurological deficits as adults

Starting Football Young May Lead to Higher Cognitive Risks

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Former pros who played before age of 11 show greater deficits in memory and thinking skills
Nearly one in 10 American adults don't take their medications as prescribed because they can't afford to

CDC: ~8 Percent of U.S. Adults Nonadherent Due to Rx Costs

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Patients skipping doses, taking less medication or delaying filling prescriptions
For postmenopausal women with pre- and stage 1-hypertension

Daily Blueberry Consumption May Reduce Blood Pressure

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Decrease in blood pressure, arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women with pre-, stage 1-HTN
The Bexsero vaccine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent serogroup B meningococcal disease among people aged 10 through 25.

FDA Approves New Meningococcal Disease Vaccine

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Bexsero is the second vaccine approved in the past three months to prevent this disease
Therapy involving "video feedback" -- where parents watch videos of their interactions with their baby -- might help prevent infants at risk for autism from developing the disorder

Video-Based Tx May Benefit Babies at Risk for Autism

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Research suggests an effect for at-risk infants, but more study is needed
Physicians have ranked electronic health record systems based on five key performance areas

Physicians Rank the Best EHR Systems of 2014

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EHRs ranked in five performance areas, including quality of care, patient portal, technical support
Benefit from routine anticoagulation therapy to reduce risk of ischemic stroke may be unlikely in patients with atrial fibrillation and a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 1

Routine Oral Anticoagulants May Not Benefit All With A-Fib

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Ischemic stroke risk lower than thought in those with atrial fibrillation and CHA2DS2-VASc score of 1
A therapy that uses patients' own stem cells may be able to reverse some of the effects of multiple sclerosis

Stem Cells May Help Reverse Multiple Sclerosis Disability

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Small initial trial shows improvement for people with relapsing-remitting MS
Prone sleeping may boost risk of sudden death in epilepsy

Prone Sleep Position Tied to Higher Mortality in Epilepsy

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Higher risk found in those younger than 40