Global & Public Health (all articles)
Yellow Fever Circles Brazil’s Huge Cities
8 Mar, 2018 | 20:27h | UTCYellow Fever Circles Brazil’s Huge Cities – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Clinical bacteriology in low-resource settings: today’s solutions
8 Mar, 2018 | 20:28h | UTCClinical bacteriology in low-resource settings: today’s solutions – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free registration required)
Report: Tackling Multiple Unhealthy Risk Factors
2 Mar, 2018 | 02:02h | UTCPublic Health: Tackling multiple unhealthy risk factors: Emerging lessons from practice – The King’s Fund (free PDF)
Commentary: Multiple unhealthy risk factors: why they matter and how practice is changing (free)
See also: Summary (free PDF) AND Overview (free)
WHO Guideline: Latent TB Infection
2 Mar, 2018 | 01:59h | UTCNews release: WHO issues new recommendations calling for accelerated uptake of testing and treatment for TB prevention (free)
Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care
2 Mar, 2018 | 01:56h | UTCGuidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care – American Academy of Pediatrics
Part I. Practice Preparation, Identification, Assessment, and Initial Management (free)
Part II. Treatment and Ongoing Management (free)
Commentary: Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens – NPR (free)
Systematic Review: Nutritional labelling for healthier food or non-alcoholic drink purchasing and consumption
2 Mar, 2018 | 01:53h | UTCNews release: New Cochrane Review evidence suggests that nutritional labelling on menus in restaurants and cafes may reduce our calorie intake (free)
Video: Nutritional labelling for healthier food or non alcoholic purchasing and consumption (free)
Commentary: Expert reaction to Cochrane review on nutrition labelling and calorie intake – Science Media Centre (free)
“For a typical lunch with an intake of 600 calories, such as a slice of pizza and a soft drink, labelling may reduce the energy content of food purchased by about 8% (48 calories)”
Research: Infant Hospitalizations and Mortality After Maternal Vaccination
2 Mar, 2018 | 01:45h | UTCInfant Hospitalizations and Mortality After Maternal Vaccination – Pediatrics (free)
Commentaries: Maternal vaccination during pregnancy not associated with infant hospitalization, mortality – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Getting Recommended Vaccines During Pregnancy Doesn’t Lead to Harm in Infants – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Systematic Review: Antifibrinolytic drugs for treating primary postpartum haemorrhage
2 Mar, 2018 | 01:46h | UTCAntifibrinolytic drugs for treating primary postpartum haemorrhage – Cochrane Library (free)
Related: Updated WHO Recommendation on Tranexamic Acid for the Treatment of Postpartum Haemorrhage (free PDF) AND Early use of tranexamic acid reduces bleeding more effectively – NIHR Signal (free) AND Effect of treatment delay on the effectiveness and safety of antifibrinolytics in acute severe haemorrhage: a meta-analysis of individual patient-level data from 40 138 bleeding patients – The Lancet (free)
The global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids has begun
2 Mar, 2018 | 00:55h | UTCThe global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids has begun – VOX (free)
“Countries like Italy and Australia are tired of measles outbreaks — so they’re moving to fine anti-vaccine parents”.
Alcohol and older people: A systematic review of barriers, facilitators and context of drinking
1 Mar, 2018 | 22:10h | UTC
Free entry for leisure centres may increase physical activity across all social groups
1 Mar, 2018 | 22:07h | UTCFree entry for leisure centres may increase physical activity across all social groups – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Impact of free access to leisure facilities and community outreach on inequalities in physical activity: a quasi-experimental study – Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (free)
Precision Maps for Public Health
1 Mar, 2018 | 22:04h | UTCPrecision maps for public health – Nature News (free)
Meta-Analysis: The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health
1 Mar, 2018 | 21:54h | UTCInvited commentary: Inequality and intergenerational transmission of complex adversity (free)
WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:23h | UTC
Guidelines for Recognition of Occupational Cancers
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:19h | UTC
Plastic Additive BPA Not Much Of A Threat, Government Study Finds
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:15h | UTCPlastic Additive BPA Not Much Of A Threat, Government Study Finds – NPR (free)
See original FDA statement on National Toxicology Program draft report on Bisphenol A (free) AND Endocrine Society Experts Express Concern with FDA Statement on BPA Safety – Endocrine Society, via NewsWise (free)
Research: Reducing GHG Emissions While Improving Diet Quality
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:26h | UTCCommentary: Cool the planet: drink tap water and eat less meat at dinner time – BMC Series Blog (free)
Canada: Global Leadership on Health
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:29h | UTCSeries from the Lancet journals: Canada: global leadership on health (free registration required to access all articles)
Research: Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors
27 Feb, 2018 | 15:47h | UTCPrevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in The NHS in England. Rapid evidence synthesis and economic analysis of the prevalence and burden of medication error in the UK – Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health & Care Interventions (EEPRU) (free PDF)
Commentaries: More than 200 million medication errors occur in NHS per year, say researchers – The University of Sheffield News (free) AND Drug errors cause appalling harm and deaths, says Hunt – BBC (free)
Decreasing the Cost of Care by Avoiding Illness
27 Feb, 2018 | 15:51h | UTCDecreasing the Cost of Care by Avoiding Illness – NEJM Catalyst (free)
Oman will raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, soft drinks and energy drinks by 100%
27 Feb, 2018 | 15:45h | UTC100% excise tax on tobacco, energy drinks from June – MuscatDaily (free) (via @DrFrieden see Tweet)
Oman will raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, soft drinks and energy drinks by 100%.
Research: The Effects of Fluoride in the Drinking Water
27 Feb, 2018 | 15:41h | UTCCommentary: Fluoride does not have negative effect on intelligence – News Medical (free)
Review: Haemodynamic assessment and support in sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings
23 Feb, 2018 | 01:13h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Opinion: It’s poverty, not individual choice, that is driving extraordinary obesity level
23 Feb, 2018 | 00:58h | UTCIt’s poverty, not individual choice, that is driving extraordinary obesity level – The Conversation (free)
“Statistics point remorselessly towards obesity being a symptom with an underlying social cause”.
Research: Contribution of alcohol use disorders to the burden of dementia
23 Feb, 2018 | 01:00h | UTCCommentaries: Alcohol and dementia: a complex relationship with potential for dementia prevention – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at alcohol use disorders and dementia risk – Science Media Centre (free) AND Heavy Drinking Tied to Early-Onset Dementia in French Study – MedPage Today (free registration required)
“Of 57,000 people diagnosed before age 65 with early-onset dementia, 39% had alcohol-related dementia by definition, and 18% had an additional diagnosis of alcohol use disorders” (via @medpagetoday see Tweet)