Daily Archives: February 16, 2017

Thu, Feb 16 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

16 Feb, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Drugs don’t cure everything – doctors can be helped to prescribe other options – The Conversation

 

2 – Handbook of Non-Drug interventions – The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) 

Very Interesting and Useful Resource

 

3 – Management of Patients on Non–Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants in the Acute Care and Periprocedural Setting: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association (PDF)

 

4 – Guidance released on acute care, periprocedural management of patients on NOACs – ACP Hospitalist

 

5 – Taxes and Subsidies for Improving Diet and Population Health in Australia: A Cost-Effectiveness Modelling Study – PLOS Medicine

 

6 – Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones – The Conversation

 

7 – Epinephrine for First-aid Management of Anaphylaxis – American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report

Source: Medscape – AAP Updates Guidance on Epinephrine Use for Anaphylaxis (free registration required)

Epinephrine is the medication of choice for the initial treatment of anaphylaxis. All other medications, including H1-antihistamines and bronchodilators such as albuterol, provide adjunctive treatment but do not replace epinephrine

 

8 – Mixed pathologies including chronic traumatic encephalopathy account for dementia in retired association football (soccer) players – Acta Neuropathologica

 

9 – CTE found in former soccer players, study shows – CNN

“Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) found in former soccer players, like US football players” (RT@CMichaelGibson)

 

10 – Soccer Players Could Be at Risk for CTE – Physician’s First Watch

 

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