Daily Archives: February 1, 2018
Thu, February 1 – 10 Stories of The Day!
1 Feb, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
1 – Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation with Heart Failure – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Catheter ablation better than pharmacological atrial fibrillation therapies – University of Utah Health, via EurekAlert (free)
“In patients w/heart failure & atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation lowers rate of death and hospitalization for worsening HF vs. medical therapy”. (via @NEJM see Tweet)
2 – Guideline: Diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal complications in adult cancer patients – German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (free)
Commentary: Omega-3 Supplements Don’t Protect Against Heart Disease – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Omega-3 fatty acids did not prevent fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease or any major vascular events.
4 – New Series on malaria in pregnancy – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (via @Onisillos)
Comment: Putting malaria in pregnancy back in the spotlight (free registration required)
Article 1: Burden, pathology, and costs of malaria in pregnancy: new developments for an old problem (free registration required)
Article 2: Prevention of malaria in pregnancy (free registration required)
Article 3: Treatment of uncomplicated and severe malaria during pregnancy (free registration required)
5 – Traumatic brain injury and the risk of dementia diagnosis: A nationwide cohort study – PLOS One (free)
Commentaries: TBI is associated with increased dementia risk for decades after injury – PLOS, via ScienceDaily (free) AND More evidence traumatic brain injuries raise later dementia risk – Reuters (free)
“Using longitudinal, case-control, and sibling-matched analyses of nationwide data from Sweden, Peter Nordström & Anna Nordström describe the association between TBI and dementia, its time course, and the influence of familial factors”. (via @PLOSMedicine see Tweet)
6 – Pro/Con Debate – two doctors with opposite views on physician-assisted death:
Pro: I’m a doctor with end-stage cancer. I support medical aid in dying – STAT (free)
Con: Physician-assisted suicide won’t atone for medicine’s ‘original sin’ – STAT (free)
Commentary: CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy Named Advance of the Year in ASCO’s Clinical Cancer Advances 2018 – The ASCO Post (free)
8 – CAR T-Cell Therapy – What do you need to know for the ED? – emDocs (free)
Related reviews: Toxicities of chimeric antigen receptor T cells: recognition and management – Blood (free) AND Toxicity and management in CAR T-cell therapy – Molecular Therapy Oncolytics (free) AND New drugs, new toxicities: severe side effects of modern targeted and immunotherapy of cancer and their management – Critical Care (free)
Commentaries: ASCO Guideline Offers Recommendations for Management of Mesothelioma – Cancer Network (free) AND ASCO Releases First Mesothelioma Guideline – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Related Guideline: SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment – Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, American Academy of Pediatrics (free)