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SAN ANTONIO — A 5% weight loss reduced risk for breast cancer among a large cohort of postmenopausal women, according to study results presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Members of the Next Gen Innovators share their thoughts on the future of intervention.

Medical decision-making remains challenging despite the unprecedented advances in technology over the past several decades. This is most apparent when it comes to empirical and targeted treatment with antibiotics. Years of antibiotic misuse and overuse have led to global resistance and the rise of new bacterial resistance threats that defy treatment with conventional therapies.

More than 75% of women with breast cancer said radiation therapy, including short- and long-term side effects, was “less scary” than anticipated, according to a study presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

Healthy nonsmokers who used electronic cigarettes with nicotine had abnormal heart rate variability indicative of increased adrenaline levels in their hearts, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The number of tweets that came out of the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting between 2013 and 2016 increased by 600%, according to results published in the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

According to the CDC, from 1997 to 2011, the prevalence of food allergy in children increased by 50%, while the prevalence of peanut or tree nut allergies has more than tripled — an increase commensurate with the rise in childhood hospitalizations for anaphylaxis.

Updated strategies for the treatment of severe pertussis in young infants, including serial white blood cell counts and treating all presumptive cases with azithromycin, have been suggested by researchers in a study published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

From 1980 to 1987, the death rate from asthma in the United States rose from 1.3 per 100,000 population to 1.7, according to the CDC. Although asthma mortality rates had been steadily declining in the U.S. and Canada from 1965 through 1978, a relatively abrupt 31% increase provided cause for alarm.

Bacteria within breast milk, as well as on a mother’s areolar skin, contributed significantly to infant gut bacterial communities, the benefits of which continued after infants began eating solid foods, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.