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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1575 | DOI Listing |
Prev Med Rep
October 2025
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death in the US and the world. In some parts of the US, American Indian adults experience extreme disparities in lung cancer incidence and mortality that mirror commercial tobacco use disparities. Lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose chest computed tomography has been underutilized in all groups, including in American Indian communities, although they have the greatest proportion of people who smoke older than 50 years of age eligible for LCS.
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September 2025
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
This study investigated how geography helps explain the striking increase in opioid-related overdose deaths among Black Americans since the proliferation of fentanyl. Using mortality data from the period 1999-2020, we modeled annual overdose rates as a function of race and ethnicity and county of residence to identify the share of racial differences in overdose rate growth that could be attributed to location. Geographic incidence contributed little to racial and ethnic overdose disparities before 2013 but became an important factor during the fentanyl crisis.
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September 2025
Ege University, Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Izmir, Turkey.
Background: Incomplete and inaccurate information transfer during the patient handover process has many risks, such as disruption of postoperative care and complications. Therefore, effective patient handover is essential.
Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the handover of patients from the cardiac surgery operating room to the critical care unit by examining the type of information transferred, healthcare workers' roles during handover, handover time and frequency of interruptions.
AACE Endocrinol Diabetes
May 2025
St Luke's Hospital, Internal Medicine Residency Department, Chesterfield, Missouri.
Introduction: Severe hypoglycemia prompts emergent intervention, yet not all low glucose readings reflect true hypoglycemia. We present a striking case of extreme artifactual hypoglycemia due to high-dose vitamin C therapy, highlighting the diagnostic challenges and management implications.
Case Report: A 76-year-old man with metastatic prostate cancer, receiving high-dose vitamin C as part of alternative therapy, presented with worsening malaise, oliguria, and edema.
Ecology
August 2025
Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.
A recurrent theme in marine ecology is that the community dynamics of sessile, suspension-feeding animals is primarily limited by the availability of space, but in some habitats, filtration by these organisms may locally deplete water column resources, setting the stage for exploitative competition for food. We examined filtration by sponge assemblages in the shallow waters (~2 m depth) of Florida Bay (Florida, USA), where water residence times are often high and filtration by dense communities of sponges was hypothesized to deplete the water column of food, primarily picoplankton and dissolved organic matter (DOM). We transplanted three sponge species into replicate locations that differed by an order of magnitude in natural sponge community biomass.
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