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Vaccination recently was hailed as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century; now, the World Health Organization lists vaccine hesitancy among the top 10 threats to global health.

Failure to thrive documented as an admitting diagnosis presents an opportunity to identify, articulate, and begin to ameliorate the true underlying causes of the patient’s health deficits.

Negative sentiment about benzodiazepines has intensified in recent years, and there is increasing emphasis on deprescribing even for people who have had no ill effects from them.