Enhanced recovery programmes can also reduce postoperative mortality

Can UV exposure reduce mortality?

A Swedish cohort analysis in this issue (1) demonstrates a significant reduction in all cause mortality and in cardiovascular mortality associated with several measures of sun exposure. In addition, ultraviolet exposure from tanning beds is associated with a significant increase in all cause mortality and cancer mortality. A potential explanation for the protective association is that UV exposu...

Newborn Resuscitation Training Programmes Reduce Early Neonatal Mortality.

BACKGROUND Substantial health care resources are expended on standardised formal neonatal resuscitation training (SFNRT) programmes, but their effectiveness has not been proven. OBJECTIVES To determine whether SFNRT programmes reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity, improve acquisition and retention of knowledge and skills, or change teamwork and resuscitation behaviour. METHODS We searche...

Making waves: can radio reduce child mortality?

Can mass media interventions reduce child mortality?

Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to measure rigorously, using a cluster-randomised design, how many lives mass media can save in a low-i...

Can vitamin D reduce total mortality?

T HE ANTIRACHITIC PROPERTIES OF VITAMIN D, the " sunshine vitamin, " are generally well recognized, and the role of vitamin D in calcium and phosphorus homeostasis is well established. 1 In the last several decades, many studies have documented nontraditional roles of vitamin D, as well as adverse consequences of vitamin D deficiency for a range of conditions, including bone health, cancer, car...