Tue February 11 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Noncommunicable Diseases Progress Monitor 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

Related Publications: Tackling NCDs: “Best buys” and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization (free PDF) AND Bridging the Gap on NCDs: From global promises to local progress – Policy brief – NCD Alliance (free PDF)

Commentary: Countries Falling Behind In Meeting Noncommunicable Disease Control Targets – Health Policy Watch (free)

2 – Critical care management of adults with community-acquired severe respiratory viral infection – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

3 – Prophylactic biological mesh reinforcement versus standard closure of stoma site (ROCSS): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free)

4 – Plaster cast versus functional brace for non-surgical treatment of Achilles tendon rupture (UKSTAR): a multicentre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation – The Lancet (free)

Commentary: Researchers recommend early walking in a brace for Achilles tendon rupture – University of Warwick (free)

5 – Editor’s Note: A Successful but Underused Strategy for Reducing Low-Value Care: Stop Paying for It – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Original Study: Comparison of Payment Changes and Choosing Wisely Recommendations for Use of Low-Value Laboratory Tests in the United States and Canada – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

6 – Propensity score matched mortality comparisons of peritoneal and in-centre haemodialysis: systematic review and meta-analysis – Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (free)

Commentaries: Dialysis Modalities Found to Offer Similar Survival – Renal & Urology News (free) AND UL study reveals ‘identical’ survival for kidney dialysis patients using different treatments – University of Limerick (free)

7 – Alex Nowbar’s weekly journal review, 7 February 2020 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

8 – #194 Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment with Dr. Marlene Martin – The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free)

See also: Episode List

9 – Intermittent fasting – NEJM Journal Watch (free audio)

“Intermittent fasting has salutary effects. Listen how Dr. Mark P. Mattson, co-author of a recent NEJM review on the topic, assesses the practice — and how he’s managed to skip breakfast for the past 30 years or so.”

For those interested in the subject, we suggest the reading of the recent review by Dr. Mark P. Mattson: Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease – New England Journal of Medicine ($)

10 – Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives / 11 February 2020 Edition

See also: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 10 February 2020 (free PDF)

Top Articles / Articles in High Impact Journals:

• Report 4: Severity of 2019-novel coronavirus (nCoV) – Imperial College London (free PDF) AND Summary: Severity of 2019-novel coronavirus (nCoV) (free) Commentary: Expert reaction to report on the severity of the novel coronavirus, as posted on the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis website – Science Media Centre (free)
• Critical care management of adults with community-acquired severe respiratory viral infection – Intensive Care Medicine (free)
• Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and its inactivation with biocidal agents – The Journal of Hospital Infection (free) AND Commentaries: How long coronaviruses persist on surfaces and how to inactivate them – Ruhr-Universität Bochum (free) AND Scientists Predict Coronavirus May Live For Up To Nine Days On Surfaces – Forbes (free)
• Therapeutic options for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (free)
• The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers Data on Evacuation Flights – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free PDF)
• Hand‐Hygiene Mitigation Strategies Against Global Disease Spreading through the Air Transportation Network – Risk Analysis (free) AND Commentary: To slow an epidemic, focus on handwashing – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (free)

Other Articles:

• Mission impossible? WHO director fights to prevent a pandemic without offending China – Science (free)
• What next for the coronavirus response? – The Lancet (free)
• What to do next to control the 2019-nCoV epidemic? – The Lancet (free)
• 2019-nCoV transmission through the ocular surface must not be ignored – The Lancet (free)
• 2019-nCoV epidemic: what about pregnancies? – The Lancet (free)
• Coronavirus epidemic: preparing for extracorporeal organ support in intensive care – The Lancet Respiratory medicine (free)
• Coronavirus: global stocks of protective gear are depleted, with demand at “100 times” normal level, WHO warns – The BMJ (free)
• In Beijing, coronavirus 2019-nCoV has created a siege mentality – The BMJ (free)
• The mental health of medical workers in Wuhan, China dealing with the 2019 novel coronavirus – The Lancet Psychiatry (free)
• Imaging changes in patients with 2019-nCov – European Radiology (free)

Preprints:

• Forecasting the Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemics using a simple (simplistic) model – update (Feb. 8, 2020) – medRxiv (free PDF)
• Transmission and epidemiological characteristics of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-Infected Pneumonia(NCIP):preliminary evidence obtained in comparison with 2003-SARS – medRxiv (free)

Selected News & Perspectives:

• China nCoV cases top 40,000, with more tied to French cluster – CIDRAP (free)
• “Containment” Is Objective Says WHO Head As New Coronavirus Clusters Emerge in France & UK; WHO Team Lands In China – Health Policy Watch (free)
• Over 30 Antiviral Drugs Being Tested Against Against Novel Coronavirus – As WHO Convenes Global Innovation Forum – Health Policy Watch (free)
• Coronavirus Is Bad. Comparing It to the Flu Is Worse – Wired (a few articles per month are free)
• Opinion: Africa is not fully ready for coronavirus – Devex (free)
• Global Solidarity, Collaboration and Urgent Action Needed to Defeat the New Coronavirus Outbreak – TIME (free)
• Coronavirus cases outside China ‘could be spark’ for bigger fire, says WHO – Reuters (free)
• Here is what WHO experts are watching on the coronavirus’ spread – Reuters (free)
• Countries rush to build diagnostic capacity as coronavirus spreads – Reuters (free)
• Fluctuating funding and flagging interest hurt coronavirus research, leaving crucial knowledge gaps – STAT (free)
• Wilson and Halabi: How global health rules are being challenged by coronavirus – Ottawa Citizen (free)
• Misinformation on the coronavirus might be the most contagious thing about it – The Guardian (free)