Healio Minute Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 Edition: Children who took statins had lower CHD risk, eating ‘green’ spurs weight loss, health care providers told to get vaccinated

What just happened in medicine and why do you care?

Statin therapy in children improved CHD risk in familial hypercholesterolemia

Healio.com/Cardiology: By age 30, coronary heart disease survival rates were 100% in a group of young adult patients who received statins as children, say researchers. Read more.

Greater weight loss results from plant-based nutrition plans

Healio.com/Endocrinology: Results show that weight loss can be achieved by following vegan and vegetarian dietary patterns that do not focus primarily on calorie restriction, say researchers. Read more.

Physicians urged to stand behind their own immunization recommendations

Healio.com/Infectious Disease: Mandatory programs are necessary where voluntary programs fail to significantly increase health care provider vaccination rates, says speaker at IDC New York. Read more.

Virtual reality platform may assist stroke survivors

Healio.com/Cardiology: Brain-computer interface helps patients successfully learn to modulate specific neural activity previously linked to recovery of movement, say researchers. Read more.

Princeton University continues to deal with outbreak of serogroup B meningitis

Healio.com/Infectious Disease: CDC allows a serotype B vaccine licensed in Europe and Australia to be used in the outbreak, if approved by Princeton University authorities. Read more.