Daily Archives: September 11, 2017
Review: Alcohol Intoxication Mimics
11 Sep, 2017 | 15:20h | UTCAlcohol Intoxication Mimics: ED DDx + Approach to Management – emDocs (free)
A fatal outbreak of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in China
11 Sep, 2017 | 14:28h | UTCA fatal outbreak of ST11 carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Chinese hospital: a molecular epidemiological study – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Hypervirulent, highly resistant Klebsiella identified in China – CIDRAP (free) AND Triple Threat: New Pneumonia Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly And Contagious – NPR Goats and Soda (free)
Free Online Course: Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:07h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease – University of Sidney and Coursera
Meta-analysis: Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in trauma
11 Sep, 2017 | 13:52h | UTCRelated meta-analysis: A meta-analysis of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) or open aortic cross-clamping by resuscitative thoracotomy in non-compressible torso hemorrhage patients – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)
Free Online Course: Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:06h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety – The George Washington University and Coursera
FDA approves new drug for complicated UTI
11 Sep, 2017 | 14:32h | UTCFDA News Release: FDA approves new antibacterial drug (free)
FDA approves new drug for complicated urinary tract infection – CIDRAP (free) AND FDA OKs Vabomere, New Antibacterial for Complicated UTI – Medscape (free registration Required)
Free Online Course: Understanding Clinical Research – Behind the Statistics
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:05h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics – University of Cape Town and Coursera
Free Online Course: Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:05h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Introduction to the Biology of Cancer – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
Free Online Course: Health Care IT: Challenges and Opportunities
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:00h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Health Care IT: Challenges and Opportunities – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Coursera
Free Online Course: Health Across the Gender Spectrum
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:04h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Health Across the Gender Spectrum – Stanford University and Coursera
Free Online Course: Public Health in Humanitarian Crises
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:04h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Public Health in Humanitarian Crises – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
Free Online Course: Major Depression in the Population – A Public Health Approach
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:03h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
Free Online Course: Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:02h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Coursera
Free Online Course: Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Caregivers, Communities and Societies
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:01h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Caregivers, Communities and Societies – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
Free Online Course: The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:59h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
Mon, September 11 – 10 Stories of The Day!
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:37h | UTC
1 – Coursera – Free Online Health & Medicine Courses Starting Today!
– Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease – University of Sidney
– Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety – The George Washington University
– Introduction to the Biology of Cancer – Johns Hopkins University
– Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics – University of Cape Town
– Health Across the Gender Spectrum – Stanford University
– Public Health in Humanitarian Crises – Johns Hopkins University
– Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach – Johns Hopkins University
– Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
– Health Care IT: Challenges and Opportunities – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
– The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health – Johns Hopkins University
– The Science of Health Care Delivery – Arizona State University
– PrEParing: PrEP for Providers and Patients – Johns Hopkins University
News release: Experts aim to improve treatment for heart complications in people with neuromuscular disorders (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases (free PDF)
Commentary: Statement on the Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases – Practice Update (free registration required)
3 – Comprehensive primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women – Clinical Cardiology (free)
4 – Opinion: Cardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health – Cardiobrief (free)
5 – 11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing – Medscape Slideshow (free registration required)
Related: Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN) (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free) AND Deprescribing guidelines for the elderly – Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (free) AND Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND Patient often prescribed potentially futile drugs in their final months of life – Science Daily AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
6 – Educating Girls, Ending Child Marriage – World Bank (free)
Related infographic and report: Putting a Price Tag on Child Marriage
“By keeping girls in school, girls would have a better chance for safety and security, to health and education, and to make their own life choices and decisions”.
“Being born to a mother younger than 18 increases the risk dying by the age of 5” (RT @WBG_Health see Tweet)
7 – Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment – Pediatrics (free)
News Release: Balancing act: Weighing the decision to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment (free)
8 – Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Palliative Care Intervention Improves Quality of Life in Advanced Heart Failure Patients – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Palliative Care & CHF: PAL-HF trial – Pallimed (free)
9 – Development and risk factors of type 2 diabetes in a nationwide population of women with polycystic ovary syndrome – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Type 2 diabetes risk four times higher in women with PCOS – Medical News Today (free) AND Researchers reveal link between PCOS, type 2 diabetes – The Endocrine Society, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentaries: Hypertension Medication Adherence May Be Improved by Collaborate Communication – Cardiology Advisor (free) AND Better Provider Communication Might Improve Medication Adherence – Medscape (free registration required) AND Talk Why, Not What for Better Antihypertensive Adherence – MedPage Today (free)
“Odds of poor med adherence 6x greater when patient-provider interactions don’t address patients’ unmet social needs” (RT @CircOutcomes see Tweet)
Free Online Course: The Science of Health Care Delivery
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:59h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: The Science of Health Care Delivery – Arizona State University and Coursera
Guideline: Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:30h | UTCNews release: Experts aim to improve treatment for heart complications in people with neuromuscular disorders (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases (free PDF)
Commentary: Statement on the Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases – Practice Update (free registration required)
Free Online Course: PrEP for Providers and Patients
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:58h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: PrEParing: PrEP for Providers and Patients – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:24h | UTC11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing – Medscape Slideshow (free registration required)
Related: Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN) (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free) AND Deprescribing guidelines for the elderly – Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (free) AND Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND Patient often prescribed potentially futile drugs in their final months of life – Science Daily AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
Review: Comprehensive primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:29h | UTCComprehensive primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women – Clinical Cardiology (free)
Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment in Children
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:22h | UTC7 – Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment – Pediatrics (free)
News Release: Balancing act: Weighing the decision to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment (free)
Opinion: Cardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:25h | UTCCardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health – Cardiobrief (free)
Medication Adherence in Hypertension: The Role of Patient–Provider Communication
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:21h | UTCEditorial: Talking With Patients Is Better Than Talking to Patients (free)
Commentaries: Hypertension Medication Adherence May Be Improved by Collaborate Communication – Cardiology Advisor (free) AND Better Provider Communication Might Improve Medication Adherence – Medscape (free registration required) AND Talk Why, Not What for Better Antihypertensive Adherence – MedPage Today (free)
“Odds of poor med adherence 6x greater when patient-provider interactions don’t address patients’ unmet social needs” (RT @CircOutcomes see Tweet)