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Healio Minute Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 Edition: Acupuncture helps with depression, diabetes takes on ethnic differences, biennial mammograms hold false-positive risk

What just happened in medicine and why do you care?

Acupuncture plus counseling successfully treats depression

Healio.com/Psychiatry: In comparison with usual primary care, combination approach proves more effective. Read more.

Type 1 diabetes shows different characteristics by ethnic group

 

Healio.com/Endocrinology: Analysis points to differences in duration, systolic blood pressure, HDL levels and more. Read more.

Risk of false-positives goes up with biennial mammograms

Healio.com/Hematology-Oncology: Retrospective review estimates false-positive risk over 20 years at one in five. Read more.

Health Insurance Marketplace premiums reported lower than expected

Healio.com: HHS report finds majority of consumers will have choice of at least two different offerings. Read more.

Black children diagnosed more often with invasive MRSA infections

Healio.com/Pediatrics: Five years of data reveals black children represent nearly 60 percent of cases. Read more.