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These activities have allowed the characterization of a great variety of compounds and investigational drugs that show low central nervous system (CNS) penetration (and therefore a reduced side effect profile) yet maintaining the desired opioid-related peripheral antinociceptive activity. These include highly hydrophilic/amphiphilic and massive molecules unable to easily cross lipid membranes, substrates of glycoprotein P (a extrusion pump that avoids CNS penetration), nanocarriers that release the analgesic agent at the site of inflammation and pain, and pH-sensitive opioid agonists that selectively activate at those sites (and represent a new pharmacodynamic paradigm). Hopefully, patients with pain will benefit soon from the incorporation of these new entities.A significant number of patients (30%) do not adequately respond to commonly prescribed antidepressants (e.g. SSRIs, SNRIs, and TCAs). Opioid receptors and their endogenous peptides have demonstrated a clear role in the regulation of mood in animal models and may offer an alternative approach to augment existing therapies. Nevertheless, there is an urgent need to find better ways to predict a patient's response to drug treatment, to improve overall drug responding, and to reduce the time to symptom remission using novel diagnostic and efficacy biomarkers. Cognitive processes, such as perception, attention, memory, and learning, are impaired in patients with mood disorders. These processes can be altered by emotions, a phenomenon called cognitive affective bias. Negative affective biases are a key feature of major depressive disorder (MDD) and may present concurrently with other cognitive deficits. Importantly, a significant percentage of patients report residual cognitive impairments even after effective drug treatment. This approach offers a new opportunity to predict patient treatment responses, potentially improving residual cognitive symptoms and patient outcomes. This review will (1) describe the underlying neurocircuitry of affective cognition and propose how negative biases may occur, (2) outline the role of opioid receptors in affective cognition, executive function, and MDD, and (3) present evidence from the published literature supporting a modulatory role for opioid drugs on negative affective bias, with a focus on kappa-opioid receptor antagonists, currently in development for clinical use for treatment-resistant MDD.Appropriately matching preventive health services and screenings with patient risk is an important quality indicator. Adherence by both providers and patients to cervical cancer screening guidelines has been inconsistent, resulting in overscreening and increased costs. This study examined the prevalence of cervical cancer overscreening following changes in screening guidelines in a wellness registry database. Cervical cancer overscreening after guideline implementation decreased for 18- to 20-year-old patients from 26.8% to 24.8% (P less then .001) and increased for those aged 65 years and older from 11.1% to 12.5% (P = .0005). Black race, Hispanic ethnicity, Medicaid insurance, and the presence of a personal health record were associated with overscreening. Reliability and accuracy of data are a concern when data intended for one purpose, such as clinical care, are used for research. Correctly identifying screening tests in the electronic health record is important so that appropriate screening can be reliably assessed. In this study on the prevalence of cervical cancer overscreening, we used a focused chart review to identify whether screening Pap tests were accurately identified in the electronic medical record. Pap tests were correctly identified as screening in 85% of those aged 18 to 20, and in 74% of those aged 65 and older.BACKGROUND Although occupational exposure to animals has been associated with lymphohematopoietic malignancies, to our knowledge no studies have evaluated adult cancer risks associated with living near intensive animal agriculture. METHODS We linked participants in the prospective Agricultural Health Study to permitted animal feeding operations in Iowa. We created metrics reflecting the intensity of animal exposures within 2 and 5km of participants' residences, enumerating both total and inverse distance-weighted animal units (AUs), standardized by animal size and manure production. We estimated risk of lymphohematopoietic malignancies and subtypes (hazard ratio, HR; 95% confidence interval, 95%CI), adjusting for demographic and farming-related factors, including occupational pesticide exposure. We stratified associations by animal type and animal-related work activities. RESULTS We observed 519 cases (1993-2015) among 32,635 pesticide applicators and 211 cases among 19,743 spouses. Among applicators, no associations were evident within 2km, but risk of any lymphohematopoietic cancer was elevated across quintiles of weighted AUs within 5km. Selleckchem Semaglutide Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was elevated for the second (HR=1.5; 95%CI=1.1-2.1), third (HR=1.6; 95%CI=1.1-2.2) and fourth (HR=1.7; 95%CI=1.3-2.4) highest quintiles of weighted AUs within 5km (ptrend=0.52) and increased with dairy cattle AUs (ptrend=0.04). We found positive trends for leukemia and some NHL subtypes with increasing numbers of both beef and dairy cattle. Risks did not vary by animal-related work (pinteraction=0.61). Associations were similar using the total exposure metric and inconsistent among spouses. CONCLUSION Residential proximity to intensive animal agriculture was positively associated with risk of NHL and leukemia, even after consideration of occupational animal and pesticide exposures.BACKGROUND Linked birth certificate-hospital discharge records are a valuable resource for examining pregnancy outcomes among women with disability conditions. Few studies relying on these data have been able to assess the accuracy of identification of pre-existing disability conditions. We assessed the accuracy of International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD9) codes for identifying selected physical, sensory, and intellectual conditions that may result in disability. As ICD9 codes were utilized until recently in most states, this information is useful to inform analyses with these records. METHODS We reviewed 280 of 311 (90%) medical records of pregnant women with disabilities based on ICD9 codes and 390 of 8,337 (5%) records of pregnant women without disabilities who had deliveries at a large university medical center. We estimated sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values (PPV) using the medical record as gold standard. We adjusted for verification bias using inverse probability weighting and imputation.