Annals of internal medicine
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Comparative Study
Life-Gained-Based Versus Risk-Based Selection of Smokers for Lung Cancer Screening.
Although risk-based selection of ever-smokers for screening could prevent more lung cancer deaths than screening according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines, it preferentially selects older ever-smokers with shorter life expectancies due to comorbidities. ⋯ Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
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Cash prices for prescription drugs vary widely in the United States. ⋯ Arnold Ventures.
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Letter Randomized Controlled Trial
The Effects of Electric Fan Use Under Differing Resting Heat Index Conditions: A Clinical Trial.
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Urgent, individualized interventions to reduce firearm access, such as extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs, colloquially known as "red flag" orders), provide a rapid, focused response when risk for imminent firearm violence is high. Studies to date suggest such interventions are most commonly used to prevent suicide and are effective. Authorizing legislation has often been enacted after public mass shootings but, to our knowledge, there have been only 2 reported cases of ERPO use in efforts to prevent mass shootings. ⋯ It is impossible to know whether violence would have occurred had ERPOs not been issued, and the authors make no claim of a causal relationship. Nonetheless, the cases suggest that this urgent, individualized intervention can play a role in efforts to prevent mass shootings, in health care settings and elsewhere. Further evaluation would be helpful.