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The World Cancer Research Fund released a new report on stomach cancer. For the first time, drinking alcohol, eating processed meat and being overweight have been linked to an increased risk of developing stomach cancers. In particular:
A year after the World Health Assembly resolved to eliminate malaria from at least 35 countries by 2030, WHO is releasing a World Malaria Day report that shows this goal, although ambitious, is achievable. Since the year 2000, malaria mortality rates have declined by 60% globally. In the WHO African Region, malaria mortality rates fell by 66% among all age groups and by 71% among children under 5 years. But reaching the next level—elimination—will not be easy. Nearly half of the world’s population, 3.2 billion people, remain at risk of malaria. Last year alone, 214 million new cases of the disease were reported in 95 countries and more than 400 000 people died of malaria.
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Medical education is in an era of transformation, and medical schools are beginning to innovate to prepare new physicians for the emerging new model of care. Findings from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions’ surveys of physicians, health care consumers, and health system CEOs show that physicians’ expectations are changing. The analysis found that hospital CEOs report needing more innovative leaders and clinicians, as well as employees with technology and data analytics skills; consumers expect to partner with doctors; physicians report anticipating that they expect to need new business, health information technology, and communication skills to practice effective value-based care. Together, these findings suggest that an evolving market environment is demanding new competencies: business acumen, data analytic skills, and broadened interpersonal relationship skills, including enhanced communication and leadership skills.
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The last week, a great breadth of noteworthy scientific news was shared on Among Doctors. Let’s have a look at the most important ones:
On the basis of the available evidence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms that the Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and possibly other serious brain anomalies. In a special report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors checked the existing evidence against the seven Shepard’s Criteria for proof of teratogenicity in humans, concluding that a causal relationship does exist and calling for an intensification of the efforts toward the prevention of adverse outcomes caused by congenital Zika virus infection.
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Regular coffee consumption may be inversely associated with risk of colorectal cancer in a dose–response manner. In this study published in the April issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, coffee consumption was associated with 26% lower odds of developing colorectal cancer. The inverse association was also observed for decaffeinated coffee consumption alone and for boiled coffee
Thirty-three researchers and clinicians point out the potential link of infection to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in a recently published editorial. They refer to the “many studies, mainly on humans, implicating specific microbes in the elderly brain, notably herpes simplex virus type 1, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and several types of spirochaete, in the etiology of AD.” Despite the wide breadth of supportive evidence, the authors say that topic is often dismissed as controversial, and urge further research on the link of infectious agents to AD including trials of antimicrobial therapy.
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On the occasion of World Health Day 2016, WHO issued a call for action on diabetes, drawing attention to the need to step up prevention and treatment of the disease. The first WHO Global report on diabetes demonstrates that the number of adults living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million adults. Factors driving this dramatic rise include overweight and obesity. In 2012 alone diabetes caused 1.5 million deaths. Its complications can lead to heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and lower limb amputation.
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The prevailing emphasis on long-acting contraception is somewhat misplaced. Women’s decisions about which methods to use are less impactful than their decisions about whether to use contraception at all. Policymakers and practitioners will have the largest effects on fertility outcomes if they can change the behavior of sexually active women who neglect to use birth control when they are not seeking pregnancy.