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Mashup Score: 0Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in an adult - 1 hour(s) ago
This chest radiograph (fig 1, left panel) and reconstructed cardiac computed tomography angiography scan (fig 1, right panel) show a rare example of unobstructed supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC).1 The patient, a woman in her 30s, presented with worsening dyspnoea, cyanosis, …
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Mashup Score: 6Medscape caves in on courses funded by tobacco giant Philip Morris, while medics fear global push into medical education - 11 hour(s) ago
Clinic demonstrations, podcasts, and TV shows: Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure and agreed to permanently remove a series of accredited medical education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (PMI), The BMJ and The Examination have found. Medscape has acknowledged its “misjudgment” in a letter to complainants and says that it will not accept funding from any organisation affiliated with the tobacco industry in the future. The move comes after a BMJ investigation revealed the PMI deal and widespread protests among doctors and academics in reaction to the partnership. Critics had said that the content tended to portray non-cigarette nicotine products as relatively harmless, therefore aligning with the commercial interests of PMI, which also sells e-cigarettes, nicotine
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Mashup Score: 4US Supreme Court hears arguments on whether states can regulate emergency abortions - 13 hour(s) ago
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on 24 April that emergency abortions should be allowed in states with strict abortion bans. An emergency abortion is a rare procedure carried out to save a woman’s life or to protect her health. Questions by conservative justices suggested the court might rule against permitting such abortions when it gives its ruling in June or early July.1 In 2022 the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion and returned regulation to the 50 states, about half of which ban or severely restrict abortions.2 Idaho’s strict abortion ban shows the continuing conflict between federal law and state law. The US Constitution says that federal law overrides state law. The …
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Mashup Score: 2Doctors can’t fix the alcohol problem by themselves - 14 hour(s) ago
A decade ago the jurisdiction of England and Wales was on the brink of introducing a policy that would have led to substantial reductions in the harms done by alcohol (doi:10.1136/bmj.f7646).1 Instead, politicians U turned, ignoring strong health advice in favour of protecting industry interests. Other, braver territories, including Ireland and Australian states, brought in minimum unit pricing, and today the policy saves lives and reduces consumption and hospital admissions (doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-077550).2 After Scotland introduced a minimum unit price, the biggest reduction in alcohol related deaths was seen among the most deprived groups. As evidence mounts for the effect of minimum pricing on reducing alcohol consumption, those …
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Mashup Score: 9A new approach to oral health can lead to healthier societies - 15 hour(s) ago
New definitions of oral health provide an opportunity to change mindsets and promote innovation to tackle high levels of unmet needs, but this will only be realised with a radical change in practice, argue Julian Fisher and colleagues More than 3.5 billion people globally suffer from the main oral diseases. These conditions combined have an estimated global prevalence of 45%—higher than any other non-communicable disease.1 A major barrier to improving this situation is our approach to oral health. The prevailing mindset is that oral health is synonymous with dentistry and that poor oral health has little impact on personal and societal health and wellbeing. We need to shift away from the idea that the prevention and control of certain oral diseases equates to overall oral health and instead move to a broader and more inclusive understanding. Expanded …
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Mashup Score: 6Medscape caves in on courses funded by tobacco giant Philip Morris, while medics fear global push into medical education - 17 hour(s) ago
Clinic demonstrations, podcasts, and TV shows: Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure and agreed to permanently remove a series of accredited medical education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (PMI), The BMJ and The Examination have found. Medscape has acknowledged its “misjudgment” in a letter to complainants and says that it will not accept funding from any organisation affiliated with the tobacco industry in the future. The move comes after a BMJ investigation revealed the PMI deal and widespread protests among doctors and academics in reaction to the partnership. Critics had said that the content tended to portray non-cigarette nicotine products as relatively harmless, therefore aligning with the commercial interests of PMI, which also sells e-cigarettes, nicotine
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Mashup Score: 9Experts call for school focused support to overhaul children’s mental health services - 18 hour(s) ago
Badly needed support for children’s mental health in England should be focused on schools with the creation of “one stop shop” information hubs, according to experts. A new report1 calls for a radical overhaul of the system that provides mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people and warns that currently around a fifth of this population may have a mental health condition. The report published on 26 April by the Centre for Young Lives think tank and the Child of the North initiative—a partnership between Health Equity North and N8 Research Partnership—calls on the government to boost children’s mental health through the education system. Its authors argue that schools have a vital role to play in supporting and promoting children’s mental health and …
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Mashup Score: 21Stop tobacco industry sponsorship of continuing medical education - 20 hour(s) ago
This malign industry must not be allowed to influence clinicians’ learning In a troubling development for tobacco control, Medscape, a continuing education website for health professionals, was recently discovered to be promoting a series on smoking cessation sponsored by tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI).1 Observers will note the bizarre incongruity of education programmes for doctors being funded by a tobacco giant whose products are estimated to kill over a million people a year,2 yet such initiatives are all part of tobacco companies’ most recent attempts to rebrand themselves to ensure their continued financial health. PMI, with the second largest market share of the global cigarette market,3 claims to be transitioning to the “health and wellness” sector, building on its acquisition of inhaler company Vectura in 2021.24 After The BMJ ’s Medscape investigation was published, evidence emerged that other courses sponsored by PMI—all focused on its version of “harm red
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Mashup Score: 26
Objective To determine whether the combined use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors is associated with a decreased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events and serious renal events compared with either drug class alone among patients with type 2 diabetes, and to assess the effect of the combination on the individual components of major adverse cardiovascular events, heart failure, and all cause mortality. Design Population based cohort study using a prevalent new-user design, emulating a trial. Setting UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink linked to Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care and Office for National Statistics databases. Participants Two prevalent new-user cohorts were assembled between January 2013 and December 2020, with follow-up until the end of March 2021. The first cohort included 6696 patients who started GLP-1 receptor agonists and added on SGLT-2 inhibitors, and the second includ
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Mashup Score: 38
Hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” have been recovered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the UN has reported.1 “Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands . . . tied and stripped of their clothes,” said Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. A total of 283 bodies have been found at Nasser Hospital alone, of which 42 have been identified, the UN said on 23 April. The discovery came after doctors and humanitarian workers described reports of hundreds of bodies in the grounds of al-Shifa hospital. Both hospitals were raided by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) earlier this year.2 Melanie Ward, chief executive officer of the UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, was among a group of doctors recently returned from Gaza who took part in a briefing co-hosted by the International Rescue Committee on 22 April. She
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