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2 months ago | 
onlyinyourstate.com | late September |Beth Price-Williams |Melissa Mahoney |Lisa Sammons
Despite the beauty of winter – fresh blankets of snow glistening in the afternoon sunlight, icicles dangling from rooftops, and snowmen decorating yards – cabin fever often strikes many of us, especially as we inch closer to the warmer days of spring. Even though the chilly temperatures might intimidate us a bit, winter is an idyllic time for an adventure. Fewer people tend to be outdoors, making this enchanting winter destination in Connecticut a must-visit this season.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
winchestersun.com | Matt Cizek |late September
Published 10:30 am Monday, October 14, 2024 With the election season in full swing, Clark Countians will want to know how, when, and where they can vote regarding the elections on Tuesday, November 5. Luckily, that information is now readily available. Absentee voting is now open through Tuesday, October 22nd. “They can call in here, and then we can [mail out] the ballot for them, or they can go online and do it,” said Clark County Clerk Michelle Turner.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
andnowuknow.com | Chandler James |late September
MILWAUKIE, OR - With talk of the current Pacific Northwest pear crop circling, we were pleased to receive an update from Pear Bureau Northwest (PBNW) yesterday. The organization stated that for the 2024–25 season for Washington and Oregon, the industry’s fresh pear estimate is 10.6 million standard box equivalents—down 31 percent from the five-year average.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September
The following is a summary of “Bietti’s crystalline dystrophy: genotyping and deep qualitative and quantitative phenotyping in preparation for clinical trials,” published in the July 2024 issue of Ophthalmology by Li et al. Researchers conducted a retrospective study analyzing the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of Bietti’s crystalline (BCD) dystrophy in a patient cohort. They enrolled patients with clinically confirmed BCD for genotyping and phenotyping.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September
The following is a summary of “Systemic and ocular outcomes in TB-immunoreactive patients receiving immunomodulatory therapy for non-infectious uveitis: a case-control study,” published in the July 2024 issue of Ophthalmology by Balla et al. Tuberculosis (TB) immunoreactivity, detected with tuberculin skin test (TST) or interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), can be present in latent, active, or cleared TB infections.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September
The following is a summary of “Magnetic resonance imaging to monitor disease activity in giant cell arteritis treated with ultra-short glucocorticoids and tocilizumab,” published in the July 2024 issue of Rheumatology by Christ et al. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is well-established for diagnosing giant cell arteritis (GCA), but its effectiveness in monitoring disease activity remains to be determined.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September
The following is a summary of “Brain structural and functional abnormalities in affective network are associated with anxious depression,” published in the July 2024 issue of Psychiatry by Juan et al. Anxious depression (AD), a common subtype of major depressive disorder (MDD), shows inconsistent and varied brain alterations in neuroimaging studies using single-model methods.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September |Stephanie Armour
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a rare point of agreement in their otherwise bitter and divisive contest: It’s up to the government to cut high U.S. drug prices. Harris cast the tie-breaking Senate vote in 2022 for legislation that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices for its more than 60 million beneficiaries. Before that, she was an aggressive regulator of the drug industry as California attorney general.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September |Elisabeth Rosenthal
A hard-won provision of the Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their family’s health insurance until age 26. But after that, those without employer-sponsored insurance face an array of complicated choices, including whether to shop on the insurance plan exchange, apply for Medicaid, or roll the dice and go uninsured. Are you a young adult confused about navigating the exchanges used to pick plans? Have you bought a plan on an ACA exchange and found that it didn’t cover care?
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
physiciansweekly.com | late September |Paary Balakumar
1. Using either procalcitonin or c-reactive protein as a biomarker to guide antibiotic treatment in patients with community-acquired pneumonia reduces the length of treatment course with no effect to time to reach stability or new antibiotic prescriptionsEvidence Rating Level: 1 (Excellent) 20-50% of the 3.3 million people who develop community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) need to be hospitalized every year.
