Issue 17, April 29, 2013

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The report consists of four components:

This week’s Science Clips featured articles begin with a focus on chronic disease prevention and control. An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine by MK Aliexternal icon and colleagues documents some improvements in U.S. diabetes care over the past decade, but also notes areas such as tobacco use where more progress is needed. Analyzing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Y Ostchegaexternal icon et al provide the first estimates of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM), noting the prevalence to be about 15% monthly. Turning to cancer prevention, a systematic review of intentional tanning among adolescents (a documented risk factor for skin cancer) conducted by DM Holman and M Watsonexternal icon finds that individual, social, and contextual factors are all involved in influencing tanning behavior.

Health policy related issues are of increasing importance to the public health community, and are represented in several features this week. An examination of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform legislation led by SS Dhingraexternal icon finds resulting increased health insurance coverage, particularly among those with greater health care needs. An evaluation of a more narrowly focused public health policy initiative, the Legacy for Childrenexternal icon, finds controlled trial effectiveness on behavioral and emotional outcomes in pre-school age low-income children. An analysis of serum concentrations of brominated flame retardants by MK Hortonexternal icon and colleagues concludes that legislation and policy may have played important roles in reducing exposure to these compounds during pregnancy.

Sexually transmitted diseases occupy two slots in the top ten this week. A modeled estimate led by PG Farnhamexternal icon finds that while early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection improves length and quality of life and reduces the number of new infections by nearly half, lending support to the concept of “treatment as prevention”. M Steinauexternal icon et al find in a population-based analysis that nearly 80% of anal cancers were associated with “high risk” human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, suggesting that most anal cancers could be preventable by HPV vaccines.

The ongoing importance and diverse uses of surveillance data are highlighted by our final features this week. S Cauchemezexternal icon, writing with CDC and non-CDC colleagues, describes the development of an approach to estimate the possibility that an emerging zoonotic infection will develop into an epidemic, using swine origin influenza H3N2v virus as an example. In the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, JL Munoz-Jordan and contributors from the CDC Dengue Branch and the Florida Department of Health show through sequencing of Dengue viruses that endemic transmission of Dengue has been occurring within the continental US for at least the past two years.

John Iskander
Editor, Science Clips

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