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
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
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
Today’s Health News
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
AI Can Accurately Diagnose and Stage COPD With Inspiratory-Only Chest CT
Inclusion of clinical data can improve accuracy of convolutional neural network-based model predictions
Decision Pathway Developed for Diagnosing, Managing Myocarditis
Four-stage classification of myocarditis proposed, from exposure to risk factors to advanced myocarditis
Accelerated Aging Linked to Increased Odds of Preneoplastic Polyps in the Colon
16 percent higher odds of harboring a PNP seen with one year of accelerated aging
Serious Complications Seen With Acetaminophen Use in Seniors
Risks increased for peptic ulcer bleeding, uncomplicated peptic ulcer, lower GI bleeding, heart failure, HTN, CKD
U.S. Woman Living Healthy With Kidney Sourced From Pig
SABCS: Chest Wall Irradiation Does Not Impact Survival in Breast Cancer
CWI has no impact on overall survival at 10 years among patients with intermediate-risk breast cancer
SABCS: Risk-Reducing Surgery Improves Outcomes in Young Breast Cancer Patients With BRCA Mutations
Findings show survival benefits for both risk-reducing mastectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy
American Society of Hematology, Dec. 7 to 10
