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Long-running ProMED email service for alerting world to disease outbreaks is in trouble
The first news about the COVID-19 pandemic came not from a government or a scientific publication, but in an email from a disease-alert system called ProMED . This fateful missive in December 2019 about a few cases of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, is just one example of how physicians and public health experts around the world have used the 30-year-old, free service to share real-time information about local disease outbreaks with tens of thousands of subscribers. But ProMED is now on life support. Much of its work came to a screeching halt yesterday when 21 of its 38 paid editors and moderators went o...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 4, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

An Update on the Management and Optimization of the Patient with Morbid Obesity Undergoing Hip or Knee Arthroplasty
Orthop Clin North Am. 2023 Jul;54(3):251-257. doi: 10.1016/j.ocl.2023.02.010. Epub 2023 Apr 7.ABSTRACTThe prevalence of obesity in the United States is at a record high of 42%. In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognized the obesity epidemic as a national problem, spurring the first generation of interventions for obesity prevention and control. Despite billions of dollars in funding, legislative changes, and public health initiatives, the trajectory of American obesity has not waivered. Obesity is also strongly associated with the development of osteoarthritis. The growing population of young, obese...
Source: The Orthopedic Clinics of North America - June 4, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Josef E Jolissaint Maria S Kammire Benjamin J Averkamp Bryan D Springer Source Type: research