PSA and Biomarker Testing Plus MRI Appears to Improve Prostate Cancer Screening
A single round of prostate cancer screening that included a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, a kallikrein panel, and an MRI detected one additional high-grade cancer per 196 men and one low-grade cancer per 909 men, according to preliminary results from the Finnish ProScreen randomized trial. The risk difference for the group randomized to the screening […]
Primary Care Intervention Improved Follow-Up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Results
A multilevel primary care intervention that included automated electronic health record (EHR) reminders and patient outreach/navigation improved timely follow-up of overdue abnormal cancer screening test results, a cluster randomized trial showed. Among nearly 12,000 patients with an abnormal screening test result for colorectal, cervical, breast, or lung cancer, completion of follow-up testing within 120 days […]
CDC Details Multidrug-Resistant TB Outbreak in an Unlikely Spot
An outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) developed in Kansas in November 2021, and included multiple children who were born in the U.S. and became infected in the state, CDC researchers reported. The outbreak involved 13 people across four households in Kansas City and spanned 1 year. While a majority of the seven adults identified were […]
Global diet study challenges advice to limit high-fat dairy foods
Unprocessed red meat and whole grains can be included or left out of a healthy diet, according to a study conducted in 80 countries across all inhabited continents and published today in European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 Diets emphasising fruit, vegetables, dairy (mainly whole-fat), nuts, legumes and fish […]