Removing largest serving sizes of wine decreases alcohol consumption, study finds
Across 21 licensed premises in England, removing the largest individual serving size of wine from the menu reduced the volume of wine sold, according to a new study publishing January 18 in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Theresa Marteau of the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues. Alcohol consumption is the fifth largest […]
Journal Shows Its Commitment to Exploring AI in Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine is charging ahead with its coverage of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, publishing a special report, a review, and an editorial in this week’s issue, and announcing the creation of a journal dedicated to AI. The special report, written by researchers from Microsoft, outlined potential medical […]
Opinion | ‘Is This an Underestimate of the Harm?’: What We Heard This Week
“Is this an underestimate of the harm?” — Martin J. Landray, PhD, of the University of Oxford in England, on preprint data from the RECOVERY trial showing higher corticosteroid doses raised the risk of death in non-ventilated COVID-19 patients with hypoxia. “I was talking to some other doctors about it online, and there was a […]
Teen Dies After Doctors Misdiagnose Tampon Infection
A 13-year-old girl from England died from Toxic Shock Syndrome earlier this year when doctors misdiagnosed her condition.
Promising rectal cancer study
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Hanna K. Sanoff, MD, MPH, is the author of a viewpoint in the New England Journal of Medicine that provides a perspective on the evolving treatment of rectal cancer. She offers prospects for future treatment of the disease in light of encouraging findings from a study published in the journal […]
A Reminder That Mental Health Disorder Is Not Synonymous With Being Violent
Like many people, Bethany Purves, a 23-year-old writer living in England, had been idly watching Johnny Depp’s defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. At least, she was up to a point. Eventually, she had to turn it off: It was upsetting to hear the intimate accounts of the couple’s four-year relationship. Depp and Heard […]
GI Infections Dipped Sharply During Pandemic Restrictions
Reported gastrointestinal (GI) outbreaks in England were halved during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with a similar period over the 5 years’ prior, a retrospective ecological study found. From February to July 2020, there was a 52% decrease in GI outbreaks — including reports of food poisoning, hemolytic uremic syndrome, infectious […]
HPV Immunization Program Slashed New Cervical Cancer Cases
The introduction of a human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization program in England substantially reduced cases of cervical cancer and incidence of grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN3) in young women, particularly those who received the vaccine at the age of 12 or 13, researchers found. In their register-based population study, estimated relative reductions in cervical cancer […]