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U.S. Cancer Statistics for Adults Aged 85 Years and Older

18 Aug, 2019 | 21:26h | UTC

Cancer statistics for adults aged 85 years and older, 2019 – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)

Commentary: Cancer in Adults Aged 85 and Older: Rates, Screening, and Survival – The ASCO Post (free)

 

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CDC Updates Recommendations for Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for Adults

16 Aug, 2019 | 07:53h | UTC

Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for Adults: Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)

Commentaries: CDC Recommends HPV Catch-Up Vaccine in Those 26 and Younger – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Confused About Who Should Get the HPV Vaccine, and When? The CDC Has New Recommendations – Time (free)

 

Experimental Ebola Drugs Show 90% Survival Rate

14 Aug, 2019 | 10:44h | UTC

Two Ebola drugs show promise amid ongoing outbreak – Nature (free)

See also: Ebola drugs show ‘90% survival rate’ in breakthrough trial – BBC (free) AND 2 Experimental Ebola Drugs Saved Lives In Congo Outbreak – NPR (free) AND A Cure for Ebola? Two New Treatments Prove Highly Effective in Congo – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 

Study: Ambient Air Pollution and Change in Emphysema and Lung Function

14 Aug, 2019 | 08:41h | UTC

Association Between Long-term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Change in Quantitatively Assessed Emphysema and Lung Function – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Video Abstract: Ambient Air Pollution and Change in Emphysema and Lung Function (free)

Commentaries: Air Pollution May Be As Harmful To Your Lungs As Smoking Cigarettes, Study Finds – NPR (free) AND Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema – NIH News Releases (free)

 

USPSTF Draft Recommendation Statement: Screen for Illicit Drug Use in Adults Age 18 Years or Older

14 Aug, 2019 | 08:24h | UTC

Draft Recommendation Statement: Screening for Illicit Drug Use, Including Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs: Screening – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)

Commentaries: For the first time, U.S. panel recommends screening adults for illicit drug use – STAT (free) AND Screen All Adult Patients for Drug Abuse, National Panel Urges – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND

 

Public Health Policies and Alcohol-related Liver Disease

13 Aug, 2019 | 01:27h | UTC

Public Health Policies and Alcohol-related Liver Disease – JHEP Reports (free)

Related: Treating alcohol-related liver disease from a public health perspective – Journal of Hepatology (free) AND WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2018 (free report and commentaries) AND Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories – The Lancet (free study and commentaries)

 

Meta-Analysis: Alcohol Use in Pregnancy and Miscarriage

11 Aug, 2019 | 22:23h | UTC

Alcohol Use in Pregnancy and Miscarriage: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis – Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (free PDF)

Commentary: Alcohol exposure during pregnancy linked with dose-dependent increase in miscarriage risk – News Medical (free)

 

The Effect of Food Price Changes on Consumer Purchases: A Randomized Experiment

11 Aug, 2019 | 21:32h | UTC

The effect of food price changes on consumer purchases: a randomised experiment – The Lancet Public Health (free)

Commentaries: Taxes on saturated fat, salt, and sugar improve the healthiness of grocery purchases, but changes are frustratingly small – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Virtual supermarket shows how food taxes could work – The University of Auckland (free)

Related: Soda Tax Linked to a 50 Percent Reduction in Sugary Drink Consumption (several policies, guidelines, studies and commentaries on the subject) AND AAP/AHA Policy Statement: Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents (free statement and commentaries)

 

Randomized Trial: Longer-term Efficiency and Safety of Increasing the Frequency of Whole Blood Donation

9 Aug, 2019 | 07:00h | UTC

Longer-term efficiency and safety of increasing the frequency of whole blood donation (INTERVAL): extension study of a randomised trial of 20 757 blood donors – The Lancet Haematology (free)

Invited Commentary: Ironing out frequent blood donation (free)

Original Study: Efficiency and safety of varying the frequency of whole blood donation (free)

 

The Global Burden of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer

6 Aug, 2019 | 07:57h | UTC

The global burden of childhood and adolescent cancer in 2017: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 – The Lancet Oncology (free)

Commentaries: Global burden of childhood cancer: growing, but controllable – The Lancet Oncology (free) AND Globally, more than 11 million years of healthy life lost due to childhood cancer in 2017 – The Lancet (free)

 

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Breastfeeding: A Round Up of Cochrane Evidence

5 Aug, 2019 | 02:12h | UTC

Breastfeeding: A round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)

 

Viewpoint: Reducing Pollution From the Health Care Industry

5 Aug, 2019 | 01:57h | UTC

Reducing Pollution From the Health Care Industry – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 

[Abstract Only] Study: Patient Satisfaction and Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Infections by Telemedicine

5 Aug, 2019 | 01:34h | UTC

Patient Satisfaction and Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Infections by Telemedicine – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Telemedicine study raises stewardship concerns – CIDRAP (free)

 

Immunogenicity of Fractional-Dose Vaccine During a Yellow Fever Outbreak — Final Report

2 Aug, 2019 | 02:52h | UTC

Immunogenicity of Fractional-Dose Vaccine during a Yellow Fever Outbreak — Final Report – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

“These findings support the use of fractional-dose vaccination for outbreak control.”

 

Air Pollution and Estimated Life Expectancy Loss

2 Aug, 2019 | 00:10h | UTC

Particulate matter air pollution and national and county life expectancy loss in the USA: A spatiotemporal analysis – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentaries: 30,000-plus U.S. lives could be saved by reducing air pollution levels below current standard – Carnegie Mellon University (free) AND Air pollution in US is associated with mortality and lower life expectancy – PLOS (free)

 

Just Released. 2020 Edition of CDC Traveler’s Health Yellow Book

1 Aug, 2019 | 08:54h | UTC

Yellow Book 2020 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free chapters)

See also: CDC Travelers’ Health Website (free resources) AND Table of Contents (free Chapters)

 

Guideline Synopsis: 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 1, Lifestyle and Behavioral Factors

1 Aug, 2019 | 08:51h | UTC

2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 1, Lifestyle and Behavioral Factors – JAMA Cardiology (free for a limited period)

Original Guideline: 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (free guideline and related resources)

Related Summaries: The ABCs of Primary Cardiovascular Prevention: 2019 Update – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Key Points From the 2019 ACC/AHA Guidelines on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease – American College of Cardiology (free)

 

New Protocol for HIV Prevention Drug Reduces The Number Of Pills Required

31 Jul, 2019 | 02:08h | UTC

New Protocol For HIV Prevention Drug Reduces The Number Of Pills Required – Kaiser Health News (free)

Related: British Guidelines on the Use of HIV Pre–exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) (several guidelines on the subject) AND USPSTF Statement: Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection (free guideline and commentaries)

“both organizations now endorse a strategy that requires taking just four pills timed to a specific sexual encounter — two within two to 24 hours before sex and one on each of the two following days… The new strategy, called “2-1-1” or “on-demand” PrEP, is becoming popular overseas but has gotten little traction in the United States thus far.”

 

Meta-Analysis: Association of Early Interventions With Birth Outcomes and Child Linear Growth in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries

31 Jul, 2019 | 01:56h | UTC

Association of Early Interventions With Birth Outcomes and Child Linear Growth in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: Bayesian Network Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Network Open (free)

 

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Randomized Trial: 7-day Primaquine As Good as 14-day Primaquine for the Radical Cure of Plasmodium Vivax Malaria

30 Jul, 2019 | 01:35h | UTC

Short-course primaquine for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled non-inferiority trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentary: A shorter course for anti-relapse therapy against vivax malaria – The Lancet (free)

 

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Opinion: Mandate Vaccination with Care

29 Jul, 2019 | 20:01h | UTC

Mandate vaccination with care – Nature News (free)

Related: The global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids has begun – VOX (free) AND Mandatory vaccination to fight against preventable disease (free) AND Italy has introduced mandatory vaccinations – other countries should follow its lead – The Conversation (free) AND Countries like German and Italy are adopting mandatory vaccination policies (free) AND Italy passes law obliging parents to vaccinate children (free)

“Governments that are considering compulsory immunizations must avoid stoking anti-vaccine sentiment”

 

New WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2019

28 Jul, 2019 | 23:13h | UTC

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2019 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

News Release: WHO launches new report on the global tobacco epidemic (free)

Commentaries: UN sees progress in fight against tobacco, warns more action needed to help people quit deadly product – United Nations (free) AND Battle against tobacco epidemic is far from won, WHO report finds – The Guardian (free) AND Expanding tobacco control measures to reach 5 billion people – Bloomberg Philanthropies (free) AND WHO Says e-Cigarettes,’ Smoke-Free’ Products Do Not Help Reduce Cancer – Reuters (free)

 

[Abstract Only] Study: Two-thirds of Hypertensive Patients Going Without Treatment in Low-income and Middle-income Countries

28 Jul, 2019 | 23:06h | UTC

The state of hypertension care in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level data from 1·1 million adults – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Hypertension poorly managed in low- and middle-income countries – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free) AND In the Global South less than one-third of high blood pressure patients treated – University of Göttingen (free) AND Two-Thirds Of People In Low & Middle-Income Countries With Hypertension Don’t Get Treatment – Health Policy Watch (free)

 

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Updated CDC Recommendations for Measles in Healthcare Settings

28 Jul, 2019 | 23:04h | UTC

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Measles in Healthcare Settings – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)

Commentary: CDC Updates Measles Prevention Guidelines for Healthcare Workers – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

 

Large Observational Study Suggests One Dose of HPV Vaccine May Be as Effective as Three

25 Jul, 2019 | 01:53h | UTC

Is one dose of human papillomavirus vaccine as effective as three?: A national cohort analysis – Papillomavirus Research (free)

Commentary: One dose of HPV vaccine may be enough, Australian research finds – University of Melbourne (free)

 

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