Daily Archives: September 8, 2017
Fri, September 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!
8 Sep, 2017 | 04:08h | UTC
See also: Advisory Highlights: Seven steps to keep your brain healthy from childhood to old age (free) AND News release: As brain problems increase, experts offer advice to keep yours healthy (free) AND Commentary: Optimal Cardiovascular Health and a Healthy Brain (free) AND Top Ten Things to Know: Defining Optimal Brain Health in Adults (free PDF)
Commentary: Heart and Stroke Groups Issue Advisory on Optimal Brain Health – Physician’s First Watch (free)
2 – Everybody active, every day: an evidence-based approach to physical activity – Public Health England (free report and other documents)
See also: 10 minutes brisk walking each day in mid-life for health benefits and towards achieving physical activity recommendations: evidence summary (free PDF)
Press release: 6 million adults do not do a monthly brisk 10-minute walk (free)
Commentaries: 10-minute walk a day app to tackle ‘inactivity epidemic’ – NHS Choices (free) AND 6 million middle-aged people take no exercise – The Guardian (free)
3 – Report: Size matters: The impact of upselling on weight gain – Royal Society for Public Health; Slimming World (free PDF)
See also: Press release (free)
Commentaries: Supersize us: upselling is fuelling the obesity epidemic, warns report – The Guardian (free) AND Going Large – Is Upselling Making You Gain Weight? – Medscape (free registration required)
Commentaries: High levels of ‘good’ cholesterol linked to excessive mortality – University of Copenhagen, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Does ‘good cholesterol’ really deserve its name? – The Conversation (free) AND Can Your “Good” Cholesteral Be To High? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
5 – Antipsychotic Use With and Without Comorbid Psychiatric Diagnosis Among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities – The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Antipsychotics common for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (free) AND Antipsychotics Overused in Intellectually Disabled Adults – Medscape (free registration required)
“Antipsychotics are used inappropriately particularly in vulnerable groups: Poor children; Intellectually challenged; Autistic; Nursing homes. (RT @AllenFrancesMD see Tweet)
Editorial: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Preexposure Prophylaxis for Adolescent Men (free)
Commentaries: Safety, Feasibility of PrEP for Adolescent Men Who Have Sex With Men – The JAMA Network (free) AND PrEP safe and effective for young men who have sex with men – OnMedica (free) AND HIV PrEP for adolescent men found to be safe, effective – UPI (free)
Original article: Drug-Eluting or Bare-Metal Stents for Coronary Artery Disease – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
In this large trial, differences in outcomes between bare metal stents (BMS) and drug eluding stents (DES) were small. During 6 years of follow-up there was a 3.3% absolute risk reduction in any repeat revascularization with DES, without differences in cardiovascular mortality or death.
8 – Chronic Health Conditions and Key Health Indicators Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older US Adults, 2013–2014 – American Journal of Public Health (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Older Adults Suffer More Chronic Health Conditions Than Heterosexuals, Study Finds – The University of Washington, via NewsWise (free) AND LGB Older Adults Suffer More Chronic Health Conditions Than Heterosexuals, Study Finds – Science Magazine (free)
9 – IBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a revolution in cancer care. It’s nowhere close – STAT (free)
10 – Intravenous Versus Nonintravenous Benzodiazepines for the Cessation of Seizures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials – Academic Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
“Should you give your preferred benzo by the fastest means possible? Or establish an IV and administer via that route? The short answer provided by this study, is to give your benzo IM or IN. While seizures stopped sooner after IV administration, the additional time needed to establish an IV resulted in overall longer seizure time when administered via that method” (by Jeremy Fried in Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 182).
Study: Impact of early in-hospital medication review by clinical pharmacists on health services utilization
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:16h | UTCSource: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Study: Association of pre-pregnancy body mass index with offspring metabolic profile
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:33h | UTCCommentary: Mothers, Fathers and Obesity in Offspring (10 articles per month are free)
Opinion: Advice to the NEJM on dealing with old influential articles with undisclosed COIs
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:25h | UTC
Viewpoint: Public Reporting of Surgical Outcomes: Surgeons, Hospitals, or Both?
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:29h | UTCPublic Reporting of Surgical Outcomes: Surgeons, Hospitals, or Both? – JAMA Forum (free)
Review: Endovascular or Open Surgical Therapy for Critical Limb Ischemia
8 Sep, 2017 | 01:35h | UTC
The unbearable emptiness of tweeting about journal articles
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:01h | UTCThe unbearable emptiness of tweeting about journal articles – PLOS One (free)
Humidified oxygen linked to increased chest infections
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:10h | UTCHumidified oxygen linked to increased chest infections – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Is humidified better than non-humidified low-flow oxygen therapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis – Journal of Advanced Nursing (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Meta-analysisis: vitamin D supplementation in chronic widespread pain
8 Sep, 2017 | 01:55h | UTCEffect of vitamin D supplementation in chronic widespread pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Clinical Rheumatology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Vitamin D Supplementation Reduces Pain Scores in Chronic Widespread Pain – Practice Update (free registration required)
Systematic Review: The Global Incidence of Appendicitis
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:05h | UTCSource: Medscape
Guideline: Managing menopausal symptoms and associated clinical issues in breast cancer survivors
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:34h | UTCManaging menopausal symptoms and associated clinical issues in breast cancer survivors – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: New recommendations for managing menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors – The Endocrine Society (free) AND Managing Menopause Symptoms After Breast Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)
Study: patients who survive ARDS may suffer from prolonged post-intensive care syndrome
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:42h | UTCUnderstanding patient outcomes after acute respiratory distress syndrome: identifying subtypes of physical, cognitive and mental health outcomes – Thorax (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: ICU patients who survive ARDS may suffer from prolonged post-intensive care syndrome – Intermountain Medical Center, via EurekAlert (free)
Guideline: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
8 Sep, 2017 | 01:13h | UTCCommentaries: AGA releases recommendations on therapeutic drug monitoring in IBD – ACP Gastroenterology (free) AND New Guideline for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Journal Watch (free)
Meta-analysis: Intravenous Versus Nonintravenous Benzodiazepines for the Cessation of Seizures
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:25h | UTCIntravenous Versus Nonintravenous Benzodiazepines for the Cessation of Seizures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials – Academic Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
“Should you give your preferred benzo by the fastest means possible? Or establish an IV and administer via that route? The short answer provided by this study, is to give your benzo IM or IN. While seizures stopped sooner after IV administration, the additional time needed to establish an IV resulted in overall longer seizure time when administered via that method” (by Jeremy Fried in Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 182).
The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:45h | UTCThe concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why – The Conversation (free)
Review: Role of Combination Antimicrobial Therapy for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Infections
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:15h | UTCSource: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Viewpoint: Nonvoluntary Psychiatric Treatment Is Distinct From Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:09h | UTCNonvoluntary Psychiatric Treatment Is Distinct From Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment – JAMA (free)
Commentary: Ethicist proposes new category for psychiatric patients to justify instances of compulsory treatment – Science Daily (free)