Public Health
WHO’s new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) comes into effect.
13 Feb, 2022 | 22:56h | UTCNews Release: WHO’s new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) comes into effect – World Health Organization
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Commentary on Twitter
🆕 The latest update for the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is now online!#ICD11 is a 'common language' for health professionals to share standardized health information around the world.
Learn more https://t.co/M2yu9md9fm pic.twitter.com/jv2IbEkD5u— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) February 11, 2022
Special Issue: Evidence-based strategies for better antibiotic prescribing in primary care.
13 Feb, 2022 | 22:40h | UTCEditorial: Antibiotic stewardship – Australian Journal of General Practice
Evidence-based strategies for better antibiotic prescribing – Australian Journal of General Practice
WHO Guideline: Hypertension pharmacological treatment in adults.
13 Feb, 2022 | 22:23h | UTC
Review: Global accessibility of therapeutics for diabetes mellitus.
13 Feb, 2022 | 21:51h | UTCGlobal accessibility of therapeutics for diabetes mellitus – Nature Reviews Endocrinology (if the link is paywalled, try this one)
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Editorial | Insulin for all: a hope yet to be realized.
One hundred years of insulin therapy.
M-A: The prevalence of loneliness across 113 countries.
10 Feb, 2022 | 10:08h | UTCThe 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
https://twitter.com/robert_eres/status/1491663838013702144
Systematic Review: Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare.
10 Feb, 2022 | 08:47h | UTCOveruse 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 | UTCMulticomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary on Twitter
A cluster-randomized trial in 20 Ugandan health centers compared a multicomponent TB strategy with routine care. The intervention led to greater numbers of patients being tested for, receiving a diagnosis of, and being treated for confirmed TB. https://t.co/PcJDC1I0CY pic.twitter.com/AT99QVOn2S
— NEJM (@NEJM) December 28, 2021
A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:42h | UTCA 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 | UTCThe origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death – The BMJ
Perspective: Trade-offs and policy options — using insights from economics to inform public health policy.
3 Feb, 2022 | 08:39h | UTC
WHO Recommendations: Reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia.
1 Feb, 2022 | 09:50h | UTCReducing the Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia: WHO Recommendations – Frontiers in Neurology
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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 | UTCHomepage: 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
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Increasing overmedicalisation at the end of life is denying people & their families a good death.
Towards a compassionate community model: The Lancet #ValueofDeath Commission calls for a radical rethink of care for the dying & attitudes to death. https://t.co/DpJiu1tOcV pic.twitter.com/FU9MgCO1J6
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) January 31, 2022
RCT: A comprehensive geriatric assessment hospital at home may be a cost-effective alternative to hospital admission.
1 Feb, 2022 | 08:32h | UTC
During the COVID-19 pandemic, female, primary care, and behavioral health physicians were most likely to be early adopters of virtual health care. Physicians born between 1928 and 1945 and in surgical specialties were less likely to be early adopters.
28 Jan, 2022 | 08:20h | UTC
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on pediatric oncology providers globally: A mixed‐methods study.
27 Jan, 2022 | 09:46h | UTCNews Release: How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted clinicians who care for children with cancer? – Wiley
RCT: Electronic directly observed therapy is noninferior to in-person observed therapy for ensuring adherence to tuberculosis treatment.
26 Jan, 2022 | 01:58h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
In this 2-year study, data showed that electronic directly observed therapy (eDOT) was as effective as traditional in-person DOT for ensuring high adherence to treatment of tuberculosis disease. @CDC_TB @nycHealthy @ColumbiaMed https://t.co/yTrU1JRuwn pic.twitter.com/QXthE4d266
— JAMA Network Open (@JAMANetworkOpen) January 20, 2022
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”.
25 Jan, 2022 | 09:30h | UTCRelated Guideline: Media and Young Minds – American Academy of Pediatrics
Global, regional, and national time trends in mortality for congenital heart disease, 1990–2019: An age-period-cohort analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study.
25 Jan, 2022 | 09:13h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
A new study using data from the #GBD 2019 study estimated trends in congenital #heartdisease (CHD) mortality in 204 countries and territories over the past 30 years.
Read more here: https://t.co/6NtW0TYMAG pic.twitter.com/VLCU9OuOwx
— eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science (@eClinicalMed) January 14, 2022
No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation.
24 Jan, 2022 | 08:23h | UTCNews Release: No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation
Commentary: No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, new report says, but critics disagree on science – CNN
Review: Health literacy interventions for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease.
24 Jan, 2022 | 08:12h | UTC
Is precision public health the future — or a contradiction?
21 Jan, 2022 | 09:31h | UTCIs precision public health the future — or a contradiction? – Nature
Cluster Randomized Trial: A multifactorial falls prevention program in UK care homes reduced fall rates among older people and was cost effective.
21 Jan, 2022 | 09:21h | UTCNews Release: Falls in care homes can be significantly reduced with intervention, says new study – University of Nottingham
Commentary on Twitter
NEW RESEARCH: A falls prevention programme for older people in care homes, co-designed with care home staff & residents, that involved awareness raising, education, screening, decision & implementation support was associated with a reduction in falls rate https://t.co/wupI0LeAxj
— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) December 11, 2021
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis.
20 Jan, 2022 | 09:17h | UTCGlobal burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis – The Lancet
Editorial: Antimicrobial resistance: time to repurpose the Global Fund – The Lancet
Commentary: Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds – The Guardian
Commentary on Twitter
NEW—An estimated 1.2 million people died in 2019 from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, more deaths than HIV/AIDS or malaria.#GRAMPaper reveals the scale of antimicrobial resistance (#AMR), now a leading cause of death worldwide: https://t.co/2h5UEKemEq #AMRSOS pic.twitter.com/aWLhmdirJ8
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) January 20, 2022
1.8 million excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019, modelling study suggests.
20 Jan, 2022 | 09:13h | UTCNews Release: The Lancet Planetary Health: 1.8 million excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019, modelling study suggests
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Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
NEW—Approx. 86% of people living in urban areas exposed to unhealthy particulate matter levels, leading to 1.8 million excess deaths in 2019: modelling study in @TheLancetPlanet. #AirPollutionhttps://t.co/kw34ANZ4ph
Thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/QiRXU4QVHP
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) January 6, 2022
Global, regional, and national burdens of hip osteoarthritis from 1990 to 2019: estimates from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Study.
18 Jan, 2022 | 09:27h | UTC