Global & Public Health (all articles)
USPSTF Statement: Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection
12 Jun, 2019 | 08:25h | UTCEditorials: HIV Screening and Preexposure Prophylaxis Guidelines: Following the Evidence (free) AND New USPSTF Guidelines for HIV Screening and Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Straight A’s (free)
Evidence Report and Systematic Review: Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection (free)
Author Interviews: Screening for HIV infection and Use of Preexposure Prophylaxis for Prevention of HIV Infection: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statements (free audio) AND HIV Screening and Preexposure Prophylaxis Guidelines (free audio)
Commentaries: Expert Panel Recommends Wider Use Of Daily Pill To Prevent HIV Infections – NPR (free) AND HIV prevention pill recommended for healthy people at risk – Reuters (free)
Related: British Guidelines on the Use of HIV Pre–exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) (several guidelines on the subject)
Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Statistics, 2019
12 Jun, 2019 | 05:38h | UTCCancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2019 – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)
Commentaries: Cancer survivors to reach 22 million by 2030 – UPI (free) AND Cancer survivors predicted to number over 22 million by 2030 – American Cancer Society (free)
The Current and Future Global Distribution and Population at Risk of Dengue
12 Jun, 2019 | 05:39h | UTCThe current and future global distribution and population at risk of dengue – Nature Microbiology (free)
Commentaries: More than six billion people at risk of dengue fever by 2080 – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (free) AND A new picture of dengue’s growing threat – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) AND How Dengue, a Deadly Mosquito-Borne
Disease, Could Spread in a Warming World – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
New #NTDs research:
current & future global distribution and population at risk of #denguehttps://t.co/Y6J6FmM2X1Projections for 2020, 2050 2080 show expansion due to climatic change & urbanisation @OliverBrady1 @lshtm @NatureMicrobiol @MOUGK @simonihay @RCReinerJr @IHME_UW pic.twitter.com/DnJCaLK6gY
— LondonNTDResearch (@NTDResearch) June 11, 2019
Study: Three Public Health Interventions Could Save 94 Million Lives in 25 Years
11 Jun, 2019 | 03:40h | UTCCommentaries: Three public health interventions could prevent 94 million premature deaths – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free) AND 3 simple steps could save 94 million lives – American Heart Association News (free) AND Lowering blood pressure, sodium intake may prevent 94 million early deaths – UPI (free)
Editorial: ICD 11
11 Jun, 2019 | 03:13h | UTCICD 11 – The Lancet (free)
Related: WHO: ICD-11 is Here! (free resources)
WHO: More Than 1 Million New Curable Sexually Transmitted Infections Every Day
7 Jun, 2019 | 07:27h | UTCRead the Study: Estimates of four sexually transmitted infections, 2016 – World Health Organization (free)
Related Report: Progress report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections 2019: Accountability for the global health sector strategies, 2016–2021 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Commentary: One million new STIs every day, says WHO – BBC (free)
Viewpoint: Durable Control of HIV Infection in the Absence of Antiretroviral Therapy
7 Jun, 2019 | 06:51h | UTCDurable Control of HIV Infection in the Absence of Antiretroviral Therapy: Opportunities and Obstacles – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Author Interview: Durable Control of HIV Infection in the Absence of Antiretroviral Therapy (free audio)
Longer-Term Assessment of Azithromycin for Reducing Childhood Mortality in Africa
6 Jun, 2019 | 06:19h | UTCRelated: Macrolide Resistance in MORDOR I — A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Niger – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
In this open-label extension study, MORDOR II, the effect on mortality persisted through a third year and was seen in the MORDOR I placebo group that was now treated with azithromycin. Read the abstract: https://t.co/hRIjQSyYhQ
— NEJM (@NEJM) June 5, 2019
Trends in Mortality from Ischemic Heart Disease
6 Jun, 2019 | 06:14h | UTCRelated: Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases (free study and commentaries)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Ischemic heart disease remains by far the leading cause of death in countries of all income groups, indicates new work by @AlexNowbar, @rallamee and colleagues @ImperialNHLI @ImperialMed #AHAJournals #BCS2019 | https://t.co/HDYeeLosbB pic.twitter.com/lFo4BbLRbn
— Circ: CQO (@CircOutcomes) June 5, 2019
Review: The Cardiovascular Effects of Noise
5 Jun, 2019 | 04:08h | UTCThe Cardiovascular Effects of Noise – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)
Related: Perspective: Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis? (resources on the subject)
Does the News Reflect What We Die From?
4 Jun, 2019 | 06:19h | UTCDoes the news reflect what we die from? – Our World in Data (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
This week @HannahRitchie02 @UniofOxford published an enlightening graph on the discordance of causes of death vs media coveragehttps://t.co/SCeBUKM7DB @OurWorldInData @MaxCRoser 1/n pic.twitter.com/733QkvslkW
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 2, 2019
Cohort Study: Association Between Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods and All Cause Mortality
31 May, 2019 | 05:22h | UTCRelated Study: Ultra-processed food intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: prospective cohort study (NutriNet-Santé) – The BMJ (free)
Editorial: Ultra-processed food and adverse health outcomes (free)
Commentaries: Does ‘ultra-processed’ food cause earlier death? – NHS Behind the Headlines (free) AND Warning on link between processed foods and health risks – OnMedica (free) AND New evidence links ultra-processed foods with a range of health risks – The BMJ (free)
Special Report: The Ongoing Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018–2019
30 May, 2019 | 08:24h | UTC
Related Commentary on Twitter
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC is fraught not only with the challenges of caring for patients with EVD and containing its spread but also with the dangers associated with responding to the outbreak in a region caught in civil and political strife. https://t.co/QN1TQO8dad
— NEJM (@NEJM) May 29, 2019
Cohort Study: Association of Step Volume and Intensity with All-Cause Mortality in Older Women
30 May, 2019 | 08:16h | UTCAssociation of Step Volume and Intensity With All-Cause Mortality in Older Women – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: 10,000 Steps A Day? How Many You Really Need To Boost Longevity – NPR (free) AND Among older women, 10,000 steps per day not needed for lower mortality – Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Free)
Opinion: Precision Medicine Should be Accessible to All
29 May, 2019 | 10:49h | UTCPrecision medicine should be accessible to all – World Economic Forum (free)
Perspective: Diagnostics are Essential for Universal Health Coverage to Succeed
28 May, 2019 | 10:35h | UTCDiagnostics are essential for universal health coverage to succeed – STAT (free)
Related: The WHO Essential Diagnostic List: A Tool for the Future (free) AND Report: First-ever WHO List of Essential Diagnostic Tests (free)
Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Is It Time to Consider Screening?
29 May, 2019 | 01:43h | UTC“the placement of priority on early detection cannot be assumed to be effective in LMICs, where limited downstream resources may be overwhelmed by the inevitable increases in number of diagnoses.”
Study: Preventable Cancer Burden Associated with Poor Diet
28 May, 2019 | 00:47h | UTCPreventable Cancer Burden Associated with Poor Diet in the United States – JNCI Cancer Spectrum (free PDF)
Commentaries: New study estimates preventable cancer burden linked to poor diet in the US – Tufts University (free) AND Poor diet may increase risk for preventable cancers – UPI (free)
WHO / BMJ Collection – Solutions for Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Control
26 May, 2019 | 20:13h | UTCHomepage: Solutions for non-communicable disease prevention and control – The BMJ / World Health Organization (free articles)
Editorial: Mobilising society to implement solutions for non-communicable diseases
– National action plans to tackle NCDs: role of stakeholder network analysis
– Medical education must change if we are to tackle the causes of non-communicable diseases
– Tackling NCDs in humanitarian settings is a growing challenge
– Social determinants and non-communicable diseases: time for integrated action
– Integrating mental health with other non-communicable diseases
– Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases
– A life-course approach to the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
– Transforming the food system to fight non-communicable diseases
WHO’s Snakebite Envenoming Strategy for Prevention and Control
26 May, 2019 | 12:31h | UTCWHO’s Snakebite Envenoming Strategy for prevention and control – The Lancet Global Health (free)
Related: Snakebite: WHO Targets 50% Reduction in Deaths and Disabilities (free) AND New WHO Strategy Aims to Halve the Global Impact of Snakebite (free) AND Snakebites are on the rise as snakes migrate with climate change – STAT (free)
May Measurement Month 2018: A Pragmatic Global Screening Campaign to Raise Awareness of Hypertension
24 May, 2019 | 05:24h | UTCCommentary: Only a third of people have hypertension under control – OnMedica (free)
The Escalating Global Burden of Serious Health-related Suffering: Projections to 2060 by World Regions, Age Groups, and Health Conditions
24 May, 2019 | 05:17h | UTCInvited Commentary: Global palliative care: from need to action – The Lancet Global Health (free)
“Immediate global action to integrate palliative care into health systems is an ethical and economic imperative.”
Geospatial, Racial, and Educational Variation in Firearm Mortality in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, 1990–2015
23 May, 2019 | 08:01h | UTCCommentaries: Making the case for a world without guns – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Firearm mortality highest in young men, and is associated with race and education – The Lancet (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Between 1990 & 2015, almost 2.5 million firearm deaths in 4 high-burden countries (USA, Mexico, Brazil & Colombia); firearms remain a leading cause of death in men aged 15-34 years – 1.4 million deaths: finding from vital statistics data @TheLancetPH https://t.co/HLz6CdDK8w pic.twitter.com/zErjISkXoq
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) May 21, 2019
Cohort Study: Association of Changes in Air Quality with Incident Asthma in Children
23 May, 2019 | 07:59h | UTCAssociation of Changes in Air Quality With Incident Asthma in Children in California, 1993-2014 – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Air Pollution Exposure and Asthma Incidence in Children: Demonstrating the Value of Air Quality Standards (free)
Commentary: When LA’s Air Got Better, Kids’ Asthma Cases Dropped – NPR (free)
Study: Suicide Rates Increasing Among Early Adolescent Girls
22 May, 2019 | 05:49h | UTCCommentaries: Increasing Suicide Rates in Early Adolescent Girls in the United States and the Equalization of Sex Disparity in Suicide: The Need to Investigate the Role of Social Media – JAMA Network Open (free) AND Suicide Rate For Girls Has Been Rising Faster Than For Boys, Study Finds – NPR (free) AND Suicide rates in girls are rising, study finds, especially in those age 10 to 14 – CNN (free)