Daily Archives: March 7, 2017

Tue, Mar 7 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

7 Mar, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – The cost of a polluted environment: 1.7 million child deaths a year, says WHO – World Health Organization

See also: 10 facts on children’s environmental health AND WHO’s work on environmental health

 

2 – Review: Duration of dual antiplatelet therapy in acute coronary syndrome – Heart

 

3 – 2017 Taiwan lipid guidelines for high risk patients – Formosan Medical Association

 

4 – Early versus late initiation of renal replacement therapy in patients with acute kidney injury-a systematic review & meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials – BMC Nephrology

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

Early initiation of renal replacement therapy was not associated with better outcomes

 

5 – Study: half of the studies you read about in the news are wrong – VOX

“And yes, this could be one of them”

 

6 – The unintended consequences of bundled payments – By Peter Ubel, MD in KevinMD.com (RT @brhospitalist)

 

7 – Paying Doctors For Outcomes Makes Sense in Theory. So Why Doesn’t it Work in the Real World? – By Stephen Soumerai and Ross Koppel in The Health Care Blog (RT @RasoiniR)

 

8 – Feeling Lonely? Too Much Time On Social Media May Be Why – NPR

Original Article: Social Media Use and Perceived Social Isolation Among Young Adults in the U.S. – American Journal of Preventive Medicine

See also: Association Between Social Media Use and Depression Among U.S. Young Adults – Depression and Anxiety

“This study can’t nail down causation. It could be that when people feel socially isolated, they go online a lot in an attempt to feel less lonely”

 

9 – Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals (6 March 2017) – The BMJ Blogs

 

10 – Unscrambling The Nutrition Science On Eggs – NPR

 

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