Today’s Health News
Neurocognitive Battery Feasible in 3-Year-Olds During Leukemia Treatment
3-year-old patients did not differ from 4-year-olds in terms of ability to perform or complete testing
AI Performs Well in Identifying Infantile Epileptic Spasms
Findings based on smartphone home videos from children younger than 2 years
Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effective for Insomnia
taVNS significantly reduces insomnia severity and is associated with sustained benefits over 20 weeks
Global Burden of Esophageal Cancer Remains Considerable
In men, nearly 50 percent of esophageal cancer deaths and DALYs attributable to tobacco use in 2019
Social Factors Influence Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Decreasing trends in performance of bystander CPR, AED use, ROSC seen with minority status, poverty levels
Today’s Health News
USPSTF Recommends Against Vitamin D Supplementation for Fracture, Fall Prevention
Vitamin D supplementation, with or without calcium, offers no benefit for preventing falls or fractures in community-dwelling seniors
Training Inexperienced Clinicians Increases Infant Intubation Success
First-attempt success significantly higher in intervention group receiving expert intubation coaching on a manikin
Electronic Sepsis Screening Reduces 90-Day In-Hospital Mortality
Patients with an alert more likely to have serum lactate tested and intravenous fluid ordered
Empagliflozin Not Tied to Risk for New Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
Empagliflozin may lower risk for diabetic retinopathy progression
β-Blocker Use Delays Motor Onset With Huntington Disease
β-blocker use also tied to reduced rate of worsening of symptoms in early motor-manifest disease
Many Lack Knowledge of Link Between HPV and Oropharyngeal Cancer
No change seen in knowledge of the association from 2018 to 2020 among adults, focusing on those aged 27 to 45 years
Certain Risk Factors for MS Linked to Pediatric Brain Volume
MS-polygenic risk score and household parental smoking negatively linked to total brain volume, thalamic volume
Certain Foods May Cut Risk for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Review shows lower risk with moderate alcohol consumption and eating fruits and cereals, with moderate certainty of evidence
Distant Wildfires Tied to Increased Cardiopulmonary Disease
Analysis of Maryland case load during June 2023 Western Canadian fires reveals increases in clinical encounters for cardiopulmonary disease
Poststroke Epilepsy Risk Varies With Antihypertensive Treatment
Risk for PSE was lower for patients treated with ARBs and higher for those receiving calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers