Latest - Public Health & Prevention

• Pain Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents Using group-based trajectory modeling, this paper presents four distinct pain trajectories among nursing home residents. How do they differ in terms of demographics, clinical variables, and mortality?
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, May 19, 2023
• Chest CT Typical of COVID-19 Pneumonia in Germany on 12/30/19 While the first cases of COVID-19 were officially confirmed in Germany and Europe in late January 2020, this case suggests that it was already spreading in Germany as early as December 2019.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 19, 2023
• Cumulative Environmental Risk and Schizotypy in Childhood This study investigated the association between 19 environmental risk exposures and three distinct profiles of schizotypy in middle childhood.
  Schizophrenia Bulletin, May 19, 2023
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Subjective Cognitive Decline This study assessed racial, ethnic, demographic, and geographical differences in prevalence of subjective cognitive decline, and prevalence of health care conversations among those reporting SCD.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 19, 2023
• Fla. Docs Can Soon Deny Patient Care Over Personal Beliefs A new Florida law allows clinicians to opt out of providing services that go against their religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. Civil rights groups say the legislation contradicts the duty to care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• EU, United States Launch Joint Health Task Force The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2023
• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2023 Check out our 2023 choices for the best and worst communities, based on such factors as income, malpractice climate, lifestyle, and health indicators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 18, 2023
• ACC HFpEF Guidance: What to Know   Ileana Piña, MD, MPH, discusses the Expert Consensus Decision Pathway from ACC focused on the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 18, 2023
• Overdose Deaths Mark Another Record Year, but Experts Hopeful "But these numbers are still extraordinarily high. We shouldn't suggest the crisis is in any way over."
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2023
• 7 Things to Know About Bats and Pandemic Risk For millennia, bat viruses lurked in forests across West Africa, India, South America and other parts of the world. But, undisturbed, they posed little threat to humanity.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2023
• Can't Stop the Hyperbole About Diet Interventions The news proclaiming the success of the UK's diet-based protocol in weight mitigation in people with type 2 diabetes overexaggerates the findings. Yoni Freedhoff, MD, expounds on why it's misleading.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 18, 2023
• Risk for Mpox Resurgence Rises With the return of summer festivals, public health experts are renewing calls for mpox vaccination and prevention efforts.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 18, 2023
• DeSantis Signs Ban on Transgender Treatment for Minors Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed into law a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care such as puberty blockers or hormone therapy for transgender youth.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2023
• Teach Basic Lifesaving Skills Starting Age 4, AHA Advises Teaching young children basic life support training has the potential to educate whole generations to respond to cardiac arrest and increase survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• SGIM 2023 Pop This Question to Improve Medication Adherence If you're not talking with your patients about how they can save money on their healthcare, you're missing an opportunity to improve outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• ECO 2023 Obesity Drug With Swallowable Balloon Boosts Weight Loss A combination of a swallowable Allurion gastric balloon and liraglutide delivers higher weight loss (around 19% after mean 4 months) than use of separate treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Episode 5: First 72 Hours: Inpatient Care for Patients With UC   Drs Sunanda Kane and Peter D. Higgins discuss the first 72 hours of inpatient UC care. What are best practices for diet and painkillers? When should your patient see a surgeon? Tune in to find out.
  Medscape, May 18, 2023
• HSS, Arthritis Foundation Spotlight Neglected Hip OA Research Convenors of a recent hip osteoarthritis (OA) conference discuss current state-of-the-art practices in hip OA and identify clinical research gaps to advance clinical understanding and treatment.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, May 18, 2023
• Burkholderia thailandensis Isolated From the Environment Burkholderia thailandensis found in soil and water samples could pose a public health risk.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 18, 2023
• Effects of Dexmedetomidine on Postoperative Sleep Quality Does the perioperative administration of dexmedetomidine improve postoperative sleep quality?
  BMC Anesthesiology, May 18, 2023