Daily Archives: October 25, 2016

Tue, Oct 25 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

25 Oct, 2016 | 00:23h | UTC

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1 – Effect of Short-Term vs. Long-Term Blood Storage on Mortality after Transfusion – New England Journal of Medicine

(no difference in mortality among those who underwent transfusion with the freshest available blood and those who underwent transfusion according to the standard practice of transfusing the oldest available blood)

 

2 – Related Editorial: Red Cells – Aging Gracefully in the Blood Bank – New England Journal of Medicine

 

3 – Just started! Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health – Free Online Course from Coursera and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

4 – Richard Lehman’s journal review-24 October 2016 – The BMJ Blog Archive

 

5 – Chronic Cough (key points of the review article on Chronic Cough) – Now@NEJM (Blog for Physicians About the NEJM)

 

6 – Doctors name treatments that bring little or no benefit – BBC News

 

7 – Pediatrics Group Updates Recommendations for Creating a Safe Sleeping Environment for Infants – Physician’s First Watch

 

8 – SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment – American Academy of Pediatrics

 

9 – There Are No Current Indications to Use a Bare-Metal Stent: CON – American College of Cardiology commentary

 

10 – There Are No Current Indications to Use a Bare-Metal Stent: PRO – American College of Cardiology commentary

 

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