Daily Archives: January 24, 2018
Wed, January 24 – 10 Stories of The Day!
24 Jan, 2018 | 01:18h | UTC
1 – Report: Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free PDF)
Press release: New Report One of the Most Comprehensive Studies on Health Effects of E-Cigarettes; Finds That Using E-Cigarettes May Lead Youth to Start Smoking, Adults to Stop Smoking (free)
Commentaries: E-Cigarettes Likely Encourage Kids To Try Tobacco But May Help Adults Quit – NPR (free) AND 4 big takeaways from the most comprehensive report on e-cigarettes yet – VOX (free) AND Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
See prognostic calculator: Prediction models for 3 month outcome after aSAH
3 – Antithyroid Drugs and Congenital Malformations: A Nationwide Korean Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: First trimester exposure to antithyroid drugs associated with increased risk of birth defects – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Use of Antithyroid Drugs Early in Pregnancy Tied to Birth Defect Risk – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND First trimester exposure to antithyroid drugs linked with birth defects – OnMedica (free)
Commentary: AAP Issues Recommendations for Improving Early-Childhood Nutrition – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND These Are the Best Foods for a Baby’s Brain – TIME (free)
5 – Robust research needs many lines of evidence – Nature (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
8 – Choosing Wisely Campaign: American Society of Breast Surgeons – Benign Breast Disease: Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question (free)
Commentary: Choosing Wisely: 5 Procedures to Avoid in Benign Breast Disease – Physician’s First Watch (free)
See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)
9 – Reduction of PTSD Symptoms With Pre-Reactivation Propranolol Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Propranolol May Help Patients With PTSD – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Propranolol May Fill ‘Dire’ Treatment Need for PTSD – Medscape (free registration required)
10 – Starting antiretroviral therapy immediately after HIV diagnosis reduces transmission of the virus – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Implications for a policy of initiating antiretroviral therapy in people diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus: the CAPRA research programme – Programme Grants for Applied Research (free)