Daily Archives: October 13, 2017

Fri, October 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

13 Oct, 2017 | 02:29h | UTC

 

1 – Phase 2 Placebo-Controlled Trial of Two Vaccines to Prevent Ebola in Liberia – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Editorial: Handle Survivors with Care (free)

Commentaries: Experimental Ebola vaccines elicit year-long immune response – NIH New Releases (free) AND Ebola Vaccines Elicit Immune Responses in Liberian Adults – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Liberia trial finds Ebola vaccines yield year-long immune response – CIDRAP (free)

 

2 – Roadmap for zoonotic tuberculosis – Worl Health Organization (free)

WHO News release: TB partners launch first roadmap to jointly stop the transmission of bovine and zoonotic tuberculosis (free)

 

3 – Increasing prevalence of vascular risk factors in patients with stroke – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Health Conditions That Increase Stroke Risk Rise Across All Ages, Races – NPR (free)

“An estimated 80% of all 1st strokes are due to risk factors that can be changed,” says new study (RT @ACCmediacenter see Tweet)

 

4 – Review: Management of cardiovascular diseases in patients with obesity – Nature Reviews Cardiology (free)

 

5 – Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Rectal Prolapse – Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (free)

 

6 – Management of a Diabetic Foot – JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis (free) (RT @adamcifu)

Original guideline: The management of diabetic foot: A clinical practice guideline by the Society for Vascular Surgery in collaboration with the American Podiatric Medical Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine (free)

 

7 – We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones – TIME (free)

Related: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic (free)

“Just how dangerous are smartphones for kids? Here’s why health experts are worried”

 

8 – Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: September 2017 – eCancer News (free)

 

9 – Diagnostic and therapeutic treatment modalities for acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: a systematic review – Endoscopy International Open (free)

 

10 – Iron absorption from oral iron supplements given on consecutive versus alternate days and as single morning doses versus twice-daily split dosing in iron-depleted women: two open-label, randomised controlled trials – The Lancet Haematology (free)

Commentaries: Treatment of iron deficiency is getting trendy – The Lancet Haematology (free) AND Taking Iron Every Other Day Linked to Better Absorption in Iron-Deficient Women – Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

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