Smoking Cessation
Smoking may increase risk for schizophrenia and depression
Smoking tied to more pulmonary embolism, leading to higher readmission rates
Most youth with nicotine use disorder are not treated
Tobacco smoking endangers orthopaedic operations and trauma surgery
Technical innovations led to excellent results in orthopaedic surgery. Quality management efforts like registers, patient-reported outcome measure, and certifications, like EndoCert, brought us, in many cases, to even higher success rates. Emerging evidence is, however, making it clear that more attention has to be drawn to non-technical factors, such as prevention and perioperative optimization, including lifestyle changes. Perioperative smoking cessation is maybe the most influencing factor for further improvement in orthopaedic operations.
Children exposed to secondhand smoke at home at greater risk for AF
Dermatology pearls: Encourage sun protection, optimize steroids for cutaneous lupus

SAN DIEGO — While encouraging patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus to use adequate sun protection, rheumatologists should be treating disease flares with more potent steroids then tapering off once other therapies are in progress, according to a presentation at the 2019 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.
Making lifestyle changes ‘part of the cancer treatment conversation’
MicroRNA blood test enhances results of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer

BARCELONA — The use of a microRNA blood test in combination with low-dose CT screening reduced unnecessary repeat imaging and demonstrated value as a tool to assess an individuals’ lung cancer risk profile, according to results of the bioMILD trial presented during the presidential symposium of International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer.