Global & Public Health (all articles)
Study: Trends in Life Expectancy Across High Income Countries
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:29h | UTCEditorial: Reversals in life expectancy in high income countries? (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Life Expectancy Declining Across High Income Countries – Eurasia Review (free) AND Australians living longer but life expectancy dips in US and UK – The Guardian (free) AND UK life expectancy drops while other western countries improve – NHS Choices (free)
Cohort Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism in Offspring
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:27h | UTCAssociation of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism in Offspring From a National Birth Cohort – The American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Autism and DDT: What one million pregnancies can — and can’t — reveal – Nature News (free) AND Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses – Science 2.0 (free – skeptical point of view on study results)
Editorial: Making Diagnostic Tests as Essential as Medicines
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:22h | UTCMaking diagnostic tests as essential as medicines – BMJ Global Health (free)
Related: Report: First-ever WHO List of Essential Diagnostic Tests (free report and news release) AND The WHO Essential Diagnostic List: A Tool for the Future (free commentaries)
Disease Outbreak News: Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:16h | UTCRelated: WHO chief calls for end to fighting in Congo to halt Ebola spread – The Guardian (free) AND Ebola cases mounting in DRC as region prepares for more – CIDRAP (free) AND Ebola outbreak shaping up as most dangerous test of world’s ability to respond since global crisis – STAT (free)
Ebola Outbreak News: DRC Ebola Cases Surpass Earlier Outbreak Total, Virus Infects 4 More Health Workers
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:02h | UTCDRC Ebola cases surpass earlier outbreak total, virus infects 4 more health workers – CIDRAP (free)
Related: DRC may provide model for containing future Ebola outbreaks – The Conversation (free)
Meta-Analysis: Substandard and Falsified Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:47h | UTCCommentaries: Prevalence of Substandard and Falsified Essential Medicines: Still an Incomplete Picture – JAMA Network Open (free) AND New Study Finds Fake, Low-Quality Medicines Prevalent in the Developing World – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, via R&D (free)
Outbreaks: Behind the Headlines
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:42h | UTCOutbreaks: Behind the headlines – World Health Organization (free)
Perspective: Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Increasing Dramatically
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:15h | UTCTick- and Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Increasing Dramatically – Scientific American (free)
Related: CDC Report: U.S Trends in Vector-borne Diseases (link to report and commentaries)
Infographic: High Burden, Low Budget: Non-communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:14h | UTCHigh burden, low budget: non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) (via @equitylist)
Analysis: Global Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:11h | UTCNews release and visual abstract: KI article shows the doubling incidence, prevalence and mortality of CKD – International Society of Nephrology (free)
Commentary: Global Burden of Kidney Disease on the Rise, Unequally Distributed – Medscape (free registration required)
Perspective: How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:25h | UTCHow Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Cohort Study: Temporal Associations of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption With Cancer Mortality
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:23h | UTCTemporal Associations of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption With Cancer Mortality – JAMA Network Open (free)
Commentary: Policies That Lower Drinking and Smoking Reduce Cancer Deaths – Medscape (free registration required)
Study: Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Strategies at the Global Level
11 Aug, 2018 | 03:20h | UTCCommentary: Higher alcohol taxes are cost-effective in reducing alcohol harms – ScienceDaily (free)
Related: To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times (free policies, articles and commentaries) AND Policy lessons from health taxes (free research and commentaries)
Study: Modified Mosquitoes to Reduce Dengue Rates
11 Aug, 2018 | 03:18h | UTCCommentary: Dengue rates plummet in Australian city after release of modified mosquitoes – Nature News (free)
WHO: Update on Ebola Outbreak
11 Aug, 2018 | 03:16h | UTCDisease Outbreak News: Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo – World Health Organization (free)
Related: DRC probes more suspected Ebola cases, rules out 3 – CIDRAP (free) AND War zone complicates roll-out of Ebola vaccine in latest outbreak – Nature News (free)
WHO: MERS Global Summary and Assessment of Risk
11 Aug, 2018 | 03:03h | UTCWHO MERS Global Summary and Assessment of Risk – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Commentary: WHO highlights ongoing hospital MERS outbreak threat – CIDRAP (free)
CDC: Guidance for Preconception Counseling and Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus for Men with Possible Zika Virus Exposure
11 Aug, 2018 | 02:37h | UTCCommentaries: 1 in 7 kids exposed to Zika in utero suffers defects, delays – CIDRAP (free) AND 1 in 7 babies exposed to Zika in the womb have health problems, CDC reports – STAT (free) AND One in 7 babies prenatally exposed to Zika has health problems, CDC says – CNN (free)
WHO: Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
11 Aug, 2018 | 02:03h | UTCDisease Outbreak News: Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo – World Health Organization (free)
Related: Conflict in new Ebola zone of DR Congo exacerbates complexity of response: WHO emergency response chief – UN News (free) AND WHO: Ebola DRC outbreak taking place in ‘war zone’ – CIDRAP (free) AND Ebola In A Conflict Zone – NPR (free) AND WHO sees complex vaccine and security questions in Ebola response – Reuters (free)
Study: Quantifying Excess Deaths Related to Heatwaves Under Climate Change Scenarios
11 Aug, 2018 | 02:04h | UTCCommentaries: Heatwave deaths will rise steadily by 2080 as globe warms up – Monash University, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Heatwave deaths likely to rise steadily by 2080 without appropriate climate and health policies – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (free)
Related Lancet Editorial: Heatwaves and health (free)
Related Report: Lancet Countdown: Traking Progress on Health and Climate Change (free report, commentaries, infographics, video and other resources)
Study: Obesity Increases the Duration of Influenza A Virus Shedding in Adults
3 Aug, 2018 | 11:46h | UTCCommentaries: Study suggests obesity may increase flu spread – CIDRAP (free) AND Beyond Disease Severity: The Impact of Obesity on Influenza A Virus Shedding – The Journal of Infectious Diseases (free) AND Study suggests obesity may also impact flu transmission, not just severity of illness – Infectious Diseases Society of America, via EurekAlert (free) AND Obesity extends duration of influenza A virus shedding – NIH News (free)
Study: Increasing Tolerance of Hospital Enterococcus Faecium to Handwash Alcohols
3 Aug, 2018 | 11:45h | UTCIncreasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols – Science Translational Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Study finds increased alcohol tolerance in common hospital pathogen – CIDRAP (free) AND Superbugs now also becoming resistant to alcohol disinfectants – Reuters (free) AND Some Bacteria Are Becoming ‘More Tolerant’ Of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds – NPR (free)
“Researchers found that E faecium isolates collected in 2 Australian hospitals after 2009 were 10x more tolerant to alcohol than those collected before 2004, and that the date of isolation was a much better predictor of survival than the genotype” (via @CIDRAP_ASP see Tweet)
Randomized Trials: Rifampin vs. Isoniazid for Latent TB
3 Aug, 2018 | 11:44h | UTCRelated Article: Safety and Side Effects of Rifampin versus Isoniazid in Children – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Quick Take Video Summary: Rifampin or Isoniazid for Latent Tuberculosis (free)
Commentaries: New tuberculosis treatment could help tackle global epidemic – The Guardian (free) AND Rifampin Promising for Latent TB in Phase 3 Trials – Medscape (free registration required)
WHO: New Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo
3 Aug, 2018 | 11:41h | UTCCommentaries: New Ebola outbreak declared in DRC a week after earlier one declared over – STAT (free) AND DRC confirms new Ebola cluster days after outbreak declared over – CIDRAP (free) AND Congo declares new Ebola outbreak in eastern province – Reuters (free) AND Deadly Ebola Strikes Anew, a Week After Previous Outbreak Was Extinguished – The New York Times (free)
WHO Report on Early Initiation of Breastfeeding
3 Aug, 2018 | 11:37h | UTCReport: Capture the moment – Early initiation of breastfeeding: the best start for every newborn – World Health Organization (free)
News Release: 3 in 5 babies not breastfed in the first hour of life (free)
Commentaries: When it comes to breastfeeding, ‘timing is everything’ in saving newborn lives – UNICEF chief – UN News (free) AND 60% of babies ‘at risk due to breastfeeding delay after birth’ – The Guardian (free)
BMJ Health Collection: Strategic Review of Child Health
3 Aug, 2018 | 04:08h | UTCStrategic review of child health – The BMJ (free articles)
“About 5.6m children died before their 5th birthday in 2016. The new global child health collection launching today explores how we can work together to safeguard the health and wellbeing of children across the world.”