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AHA Scientific Statement: Strategies to reduce low-value cardiovascular care.

23 Feb, 2022 | 10:43h | UTC

Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Cardiovascular Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – American Heart Association

News Release: Do you really need that test? New statement highlights need to reduce “low-value” heart care – American Heart Association

 

WHO: Here are the 16 ‘best buys’ to tackle non-communicable diseases.

23 Feb, 2022 | 10:19h | UTC

WHO: Here Are The 16 ‘Best Buys’ To Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases – Forbes

Original Report: WHO Report | Saving lives, spending less: the case for investing in noncommunicable diseases.

 

Study suggests banning the promotion of soft drinks could be more effective than a sugar tax.

22 Feb, 2022 | 08:25h | UTC

Banning the promotion of soft drinks could be more effective than a sugar tax – The Conversation

Original Study: Industry levy versus banning promotion on soft drinks in Scotland: A distributional analysis – Food Policy

Related:

Association of a sweetened beverage tax with reduction in soda consumption in high school students.

Changes in food purchases after the Chilean policies on food labelling, marketing, and sales in schools: a before and after study.

UK National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says.

Perspective – Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons to date and the future of taxation

Cohort Study: Association Between Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages and Soft Drink Consumption

Meta-Analysis: Impact of Sugar‐sweetened Beverage Taxes on Purchases and Dietary Intake

Cochrane Review: Environmental Interventions to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar‐sweetened Beverages and Their Effects on Health

Study: Snack Tax May be More Effective than a Sugary Drink Tax to Tackle Obesity

Sugar Tax: Why Health Experts Want it But Politicians and Industry are Resisting

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

Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Associated with Reduced Consumption

Soda Tax Linked to a 50 Percent Reduction in Sugary Drink Consumption

AAP/AHA Policy Statement: Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents

Fiscal policies for diet and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization

The Lancet taskforce on NCDs and economics

To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times

Reducing cardiovascular disease burden through targeted dietary policies

Fiscal policies for the prevention of diseases

The potential impact of food taxes and subsidies on cardiovascular disease and diabetes burden and disparities

 

Review | Acute traumatic brain injury in frail patients: the next pandemic.

21 Feb, 2022 | 08:31h | UTC

Acute traumatic brain injury in frail patients: the next pandemic – Current Opinion in Critical Care

 

New U.S. childhood and adolescent immunization schedule released by ACIP.

18 Feb, 2022 | 10:05h | UTC

Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule: United States, 2022 – Pediatrics

See also:

Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule: Recommendations for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2022 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years or Younger — United States, 2022 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

 

New U.S. adult immunization schedule released by ACIP.

18 Feb, 2022 | 10:07h | UTC

Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2022 – Annals of Internal Medicine

News release: New adult immunization schedule recommends changes to zoster, pneumococcal, and hep B vaccines – American College of Physicians

See also: Adult Immunization Schedule: Recommendations for Ages 19 Years or Older, United States, 2022 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates of physical or sexual, or both, intimate partner violence against women.

18 Feb, 2022 | 08:44h | UTC

Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates of physical or sexual, or both, intimate partner violence against women in 2018 – The Lancet

News release: More than a quarter of women have experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetimes, finds new study – The Lancet

Commentary: Intimate partner violence against women: a persistent and urgent challenge – The Lancet

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission.

16 Feb, 2022 | 10:18h | UTC

Homepage: Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission – The Lancet

Editorial: Ensuring care for people with depression (free registration required)

Commission: Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission (free registration required)

News Release: Overlooked and underfunded—experts call for united action to reduce the global burden of depression – The Lancet

Related: New Global Burden of Disease analyses show depression and anxiety among the top causes of health burden worldwide, and a significant increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Development of a metric to detect and decrease low-value prescribing in older adults.

16 Feb, 2022 | 09:58h | UTC

Development of a Metric to Detect and Decrease Low-Value Prescribing in Older Adults – JAMA Network Open

Invited Commentary: Considering Value in Prescribing and Deprescribing for Older Adults – JAMA

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Seminar: Measles.

16 Feb, 2022 | 10:15h | UTC

Measles – The Lancet (free registration required)

See also: Measles Infographics

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

M-A: Global prevalence of meeting screen time guidelines among children 5 years and younger.

16 Feb, 2022 | 08:40h | UTC

Global Prevalence of Meeting Screen Time Guidelines Among Children 5 Years and Younger: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Pediatrics

Commentary: Kids using screens more than recommended, new study finds – ABC News

Related Guidelines:

Media and Young Minds – American Academy of Pediatrics

Guidelines on Screen Time and Digital Wellness in Infants, Children and Adolescents – “children below 2 years age should not be exposed to any type of screen, whereas exposure should be limited to a maximum of one hour of supervised screen time per day for children 24-59 months age, and less than two hours per day for children 5-10 years age”.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Data Review: How many people die from air pollution?

15 Feb, 2022 | 08:37h | UTC

Data Review: How many people die from air pollution? – Our World in Data

Related:

New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution.

Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction mortality

1.8 million excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019, modelling study suggests.

Internalising health-economic impacts of air pollution into climate policy: a global modelling study – The Lancet Planetary Health

Air Pollution Associated with New Causes of Hospital Admissions

Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

Air Pollution and Estimated Life Expectancy Loss

 

Ending the evidence gap for pregnancy, HIV and co-infections: ethics guidance from the PHASES project.

15 Feb, 2022 | 08:35h | UTC

Ending the evidence gap for pregnancy, HIV and co-infections: ethics guidance from the PHASES project – Journal of the International AIDS Society

 

WHO’s new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) comes into effect.

13 Feb, 2022 | 22:56h | UTC

News Release: WHO’s new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) comes into effect – World Health Organization

See also:

ICD-11 Browser

ICD-11 website

ICD-11 coding tool

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Special Issue: Evidence-based strategies for better antibiotic prescribing in primary care.

13 Feb, 2022 | 22:40h | UTC

Editorial: Antibiotic stewardship – Australian Journal of General Practice

Antibiotic stewardship: A review of successful, evidence-based primary care strategies – Australian Journal of General Practice

Evidence-based strategies for better antibiotic prescribing – Australian Journal of General Practice

How can general practitioners reduce antibiotic prescribing in collaboration with their patients? – Australian Journal of General Practice

 

WHO Guideline: Hypertension pharmacological treatment in adults.

13 Feb, 2022 | 22:23h | UTC

Hypertension Pharmacological Treatment in Adults: A World Health Organization Guideline Executive Summary – Hypertension

 

Review: Global accessibility of therapeutics for diabetes mellitus.

13 Feb, 2022 | 21:51h | UTC

Global accessibility of therapeutics for diabetes mellitus – Nature Reviews Endocrinology (if the link is paywalled, try this one)

Related:

New WHO report maps barriers to insulin availability and suggests actions to promote universal access – “100 years after its discovery, insulin still out of reach for many living with diabetes”.

Editorial | Insulin for all: a hope yet to be realized.

One hundred years of insulin therapy.

The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries – fewer than one in ten people with diabetes in LMICs receive comprehensive care such as low-cost medicines to reduce blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, in addition to counseling on diet, exercise and weight.

 

M-A: The prevalence of loneliness across 113 countries.

10 Feb, 2022 | 10:08h | UTC

The prevalence of loneliness across 113 countries: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ

Editorial: We need a public health approach to loneliness

News Release: Problematic levels of loneliness widespread in many countries – BMJ

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Systematic Review: Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare.

10 Feb, 2022 | 08:47h | UTC

Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare: a systematic review – BMJ Quality & Safety

 

Cluster-Randomized Trial: A multicomponent diagnostic strategy (on-site molecular testing for tuberculosis, guided restructuring of clinic workflows, and monthly feedback of quality metrics) significantly improved the rates of a confirmed diagnosis of tuberculosis within 14 days after presentation.

8 Feb, 2022 | 08:43h | UTC

Multicomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands.

7 Feb, 2022 | 08:42h | UTC

A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands – Science

Commentaries:

New highly virulent and damaging HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands – University of Oxford

Highly virulent HIV variant found circulating in Europe – Nature

 

Perspective: The origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death – “Death has turned from being a family, social, and cultural event to primarily a medical event”.

3 Feb, 2022 | 08:51h | UTC

The origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death – The BMJ

Related: The Lancet Commission: Experts warn of the increasing overmedicalization of death, call for radical rethink of how society cares for dying people.

 

Perspective: Trade-offs and policy options — using insights from economics to inform public health policy.

3 Feb, 2022 | 08:39h | UTC

Trade-offs and Policy Options — Using Insights from Economics to Inform Public Health Policy – New England Journal of Medicine

 

WHO Recommendations: Reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

1 Feb, 2022 | 09:50h | UTC

Reducing the Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia: WHO Recommendations – Frontiers in Neurology

Related:

Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

New WHO toolkit promotes inclusion of people with dementia in society.

Dementia: number of people affected to triple in next 30 years – World Health Organization

 

The Lancet Commission: Experts warn of the increasing overmedicalization of death, call for radical rethink of how society cares for dying people.

1 Feb, 2022 | 09:55h | UTC

News Release: THE LANCET: Experts warn of the increasing overmedicalization of death, call for radical rethink of how society cares for dying people

Homepage: Lancet Commission on the Value of Death (free registration required for all articles)

Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life

The precariousness of balancing life and death

Ros Taylor: seeing palliative care as relational

Related: What would it take to die well? A systematic review of systematic reviews on the conditions for a good death – The Lancet Health Longevity

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

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