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Relationship Between Health System Quality and Racial and Ethnic Equity in Diabetes Care (Health Affairs Scholar)
Researchers found racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes care quality in top-performing Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers among American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, and Hispanic VA users versus White VA users. Read more
NHS Cancer Services and Systems: 10 Pressure Points a UK Cancer Control Plan Needs to Address (The Lancet Oncology)
This policy review discusses 10 key pressure points in the National Health Service in the delivery of cancer care services that experts say need to be urgently addressed by a comprehensive national cancer control plan, including increasing workforce capacity and its productivity, delivering effective cancer survivorship services, adressing variation in quality, fixing the reimbursement system for cancer care, and balancing of the cancer research agenda. Read more
Robust and Interpretable AI-Guided Marker for Early Dementia Prediction in Real-World Clinical Settings (eClinicalMedicine)
Building a robust and interpretable predictive prognostic model and validating its clinical utility using real-world, routinely collected, noninvasive, and low-cost patient data, researchers say they produced results that provide evidence for a robust and explainable clinical artificial intelligence-guided marker for early dementia prediction—one that is validated against longitudinal, multicenter patient data across countries, and has strong potential for adoption in clinical practice. Read more
Drug Development and Evidence for Lung Cancer Targeted Therapy in Eastern Asia (The Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific)
Researchers examine the development of genetic testing technology, targeted drugs approval, ongoing promising clinical trials in the field of lung cancer, and the important progress made by governments in the Eastern Asian region. Authors proposed key factors that will contribute to the promising future prospects in the region. Read more
Proportion and Number of Cancer Cases and Deaths Attributable to Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors in the United States, 2019 (American Cancer Society)
About 40% of all cancer cases and nearly one half of all cancer deaths in the United States in 2019 were attributable to the evaluated potentially modifiable risk factors, researchers say. The study notes that these findings reinforce that the morbidity and premature mortality from cancer in the United States can be substantially reduced through broad and equitable implementation of known preventive initiatives, such as excise taxes on cigarettes to reduce smoking, screening for and treating hepatitis C infection, and vaccination against human papillomavirus infection. Read more
MeDevIS Platform Announced to Boost Access to Medical Technologies and Devices (World Health Organization)
The online platform, Medical Devices Information System (MeDevIS), is the first global open access clearing house for information on medical devices. The platform is designed to support governments, regulators, and users in their decision making on the selection, procurement, and use of medical devices for diagnostics, testing, and treatment of diseases and health conditions. Read more
US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence “a Public Health Crisis” (KFF News)
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared firearm violence a public health crisis and called on policy makers to consider gun safety measures such as bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and universal background checks for all firearm purchases. Read more
Next Leap in Modi 3.0: From UPI to a Unified Health Initiative (The Hindustan Times)
According to Ashwin Gopinath, cofounder and CTO of Biostate.ai, the recent election reaffirmed the country’s faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a digitally empowered India. And it’s time to envision the next frontier—a Unified Health Initiative that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and digital tools to revolutionize India’s healthcare landscape. Read more
CAR-T Cell Therapy’s Complications, as Well as Its Benefits, Become Clearer in “Flurry” of Cancer Studies (STAT)
These papers give scientists a better idea of how often CAR-T patients go on to develop any subsequent malignancy and provide a blueprint for how clinicians might be able to detect the development of a potential CAR-T–induced cancer. Read more
1 in 10 People Infected During Pregnancy Develop Long COVID, Study Finds (Washington Post)
Nearly 1 in 10 people infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy developed long COVID, according to a study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, suggesting that long COVID is more prevalent among people infected while pregnant than in the population overall. Read more
