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Environmental exposure to pyrethroid insecticides is associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality

Exposure to Pyrethroid Insecticides Linked to Mortality

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Risk increased for all-cause, CVD mortality for highest tertile of urinary 3-phenoxybenzoic acid
Young

Public Insurance Tied to Lower Cancer Survival in Young Patients

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Findings seen among patients <40 years with bone or soft tissue sarcomas, regardless of disease stage
Risk-tailored screening could potentially reduce overdiagnosis and improve the cost-effectiveness of a prostate cancer screening program

Risk-Based Approach Could Help Target Prostate Cancer Screening

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Risk-based screening yields less overdiagnosis, more cost-effective than age-based screening
Baseline high body mass index is associated with improved survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with atezolizumab

BMI, Survival Linked in NSCLC Treated With Atezolizumab

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Overall, progression-free survival improved for patients with high BMI; link strongest with high PD-L1 expression
Requiring hospitals to sell a package of facility and physician services would protect patients from out-of-network bills at in-network hospitals

Changes Needed to Address Out-of-Network Billing at Hospitals

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Anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists, assistant surgeons out of network in about 10 percent of cases
U.S. women who have received one dose of human papillomavirus vaccine have similar protection as women who have received two or three doses

Protection Similar With Single, Multiple HPV Vaccine Doses

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Infection with HPV 6, 11, 16, 18 less prevalent among women receiving one, two, three doses of HPV vaccine
Many hospital patient portals fail to educate patients fully and set expectations for secure messaging

Many Hospitals Fail to Provide Instructions for Patient Portals

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Authors say hospitals need to provide patients with more information and clarify expectations for use
Use of antioxidants and other dietary supplements before and during chemotherapy is associated with worse survival outcomes for patients with breast cancer

Antioxidant, Supplement Use May Worsen Breast Cancer Outcomes

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Disease-free, overall survival poorer with vitamin B12 use before and during chemotherapy
A polygenic risk score

Polygenic Risk Score More Strongly Linked to Early-Onset CRC

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Strongest association seen for participants without a first-degree family history of colorectal cancer
For patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in routine care

Survival Up for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia 1995 to 2017

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Improvement in median overall survival from 5.8 years in 1995 to 2011 to not reached in 2009 to 2017