Every week, KHN compiles a choice of just lately launched well being coverage research and briefs.
ScienceDaily:
Study Links Air Pollution To Nearly 6 Million Preterm Births Around The World
Air air pollution probably contributed to virtually 6 million untimely births and virtually 3 million underweight infants in 2019, in response to a UC San Francisco and College of Washington world burden of illness research and meta-analysis that quantifies the consequences of indoor and out of doors air pollution around the globe. (UC San Francisco, 9/28)
ScienceDaily:
Global Cancer Risk From Burning Organic Matter Comes From Unregulated Chemicals
There are greater than 100 recognized kinds of PAH compounds emitted every day into the ambiance. Regulators, nonetheless, have traditionally relied on measurements of a single compound, benzo(a)pyrene, to gauge a group’s danger of creating most cancers from PAH publicity. Now MIT scientists have discovered that benzo(a)pyrene could also be a poor indicator of this sort of most cancers danger. In a modeling research showing at the moment within the journal GeoHealth, the staff stories that benzo(a)pyrene performs a small half — about 11 % — within the world danger of creating PAH-associated most cancers. As a substitute, 89 % of that most cancers danger comes from different PAH compounds, a lot of which aren’t straight regulated. (Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, 9/22)
In analysis on the flu and meningitis —
CIDRAP:
Global Flu Detections Stay Sporadic, Mainly Flu B And H3N2
Flu ranges in each hemispheres stay beneath anticipated ranges, regardless of elevated testing, however a number of areas have reported sporadic instances and exercise, the WHO stated yesterday in an replace that covers the primary half of September. Within the Americas, some Caribbean and Central American areas reported sporadic influenza B instances. In tropical components of Africa, a couple of influenza A instances had been reported in Western, Center, and Japanese nations. (9/28)
CIDRAP:
WHO Announces New Global Meningitis Strategy
The World Well being Group (WHO) and its companions at the moment referred to as for pressing motion to handle meningitis, whereas launching the primary ever world technique to battle the illness, referred to as the International Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030.By 2030, the objectives are to remove epidemics of bacterial meningitis—the deadliest type of the illness—and to scale back deaths by 70% and halve the variety of instances, the WHO stated in a press launch. (9/28)
In different analysis on antibiotics and diet —
CIDRAP:
Antibiotics After Mastectomy Common, But With Small Benefit, Study Finds
An evaluation of US medical health insurance knowledge discovered that post-discharge prophylactic antibiotics are generally prescribed after mastectomy, however present solely a small discount in surgical-site infections (SSIs), researchers reported at the moment in An infection Management & Hospital Epidemiology. Utilizing a database that features outpatient pharmacy claims for people coated by employer-sponsored and industrial medical health insurance plans, researchers from the Washington College College of Drugs in St. Louis studied a cohort of girls ages 18 to 64 who underwent mastectomy from January 2010 by way of June 2015. Their goal was to analyze the elements related to post-discharge prophylactic antibiotic use and the affect on SSIs. (9/27)
ScienceDaily:
Sticking To Low-Fat Dairy May Not Be The Only Heart Healthy Option, Study Shows
New analysis amongst the world’s greatest customers of dairy meals has proven that these with greater intakes of dairy fats — measured by ranges of fatty acids within the blood — had a decrease danger of heart problems in comparison with these with low intakes. Increased intakes of dairy fats weren’t related to an elevated danger of loss of life. (George Institute for International Well being, 9/21)
ScienceDaily:
Intermittent Fasting Can Help Manage Metabolic Disease
Consuming your every day energy inside a constant window of 8-10 hours is a robust technique to stop and handle power illnesses reminiscent of diabetes and coronary heart illness, in response to a brand new manuscript printed within the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrine Evaluations. (The Endocrine Society, 9/22)
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