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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics refines
RSV awareness tracked with vaccination in White and Black women, not Hispanic women
Among 650 pregnant and postpartum US women, RSV awareness was associated with a 26.4 point higher vaccination probability for White women but a non-significant 6.9 points for Hispanic women.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Longer stays tracked higher death and longer waits lower, a triage artefact
A retrospective analysis of 593,673 emergency presentations at a New Zealand hospital between 2016 and 2024 found longer departmental stays associated with worse outcomes and longer waiting times associated with better ones, reflecting triage order rather than any effect of waiting.
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Data, models and systemsRevisions and new sources new
Amish study of 3,978 adults links cognitive diagnoses to pedigrees and whole-genome data
The Collaborative Amish Aging and Memory Project has enrolled 3,978 Amish adults in Ohio and Indiana, 2,928 with an agreed cognitive diagnosis, and reports only the cohort's composition.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine confirms
Machine learning predicted HPV vaccine hesitancy no better than logistic regression
Among 1,156 parents in Buea Health District, Cameroon, logistic regression, random forest and gradient boosting identified hesitant parents equally well, with area under the curve between 0.841 and 0.870.
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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Spleen uptake on cardiac PET stress scans is associated with later cardiac events
Among 16,650 patients having drug-stress cardiac PET at six sites, a high ratio of spleen uptake under stress to uptake at rest was associated with more major cardiovascular events.
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Tomorrow's worldMedicine at a distance confirms
Telehealth-supported hepatitis C care was modelled to cost 69% less than specialist care
A cost model of the Cherokee Nation's hepatitis C programme, in which specialists advised primary care providers by video, put care at $1412 per patient against $4534 under specialist-based care.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine refines
Three Holter ECG measures with age predicted five-year mortality in Israeli adults
A random forest combining atrial fibrillation burden, premature ventricular contraction burden, T-wave alternans and age reached an AUROC of 0.79 for five-year mortality in 54,395 Israeli primary care patients.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine new
Model trained to forecast patient records predicts five-year risk of a first cancer
A model trained to forecast what happens next in the records of millions of patients predicted a first cancer within five years, although no accuracy figures are given.
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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep refines
Adolescent movement behaviours explained 2.0 points of a 6.9-point CVD risk gap
In 6,608 US adolescents followed for over two decades, the 6.9 percentage-point gap in predicted 30-year cardiovascular risk by parental education fell to 4.9 points in a scenario removing all unhealthy physical activity, screen time and sleep, and the relative gap was unchanged.
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Health todayCancer new
A model puts daraxonrasib at $500,637 per quality-adjusted life year in pancreatic cancer
A cost-effectiveness model built from the RASolute 302 trial put daraxonrasib at $500,637 per quality-adjusted life year gained over chemotherapy, at a US price of $39,800 per 30 days.
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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Women and deprived patients had higher one-year mortality in English aortic disease
Among 33,793 new thoracic aortic disease diagnoses in England between 2013 and 2018, one-year mortality was higher among women, older patients and those from deprived areas, and patients from deprived areas were less likely to receive early intervention or genetic referral.
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Data, models and systemsWhat linked data reveals new
Australians in same-sex relationships had about a quarter higher all-cause mortality
Australian census records linked to death registrations show all-cause mortality a quarter higher among adults in same-sex than different-sex relationships, and external-cause mortality two to three times higher.
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