Daily Archives: April 9, 2018

Mon, April 9 – 10 Stories of The Day!

9 Apr, 2018 | 01:25h | UTC

 

1 – World Health Day (7 April 2018) – World Health Organization (free resources)

See also: Campaign Essentials / Key Messages / and WHO’s Universal Health Coverage Website

WHO’s theme for this year world health day is Universal Health Coverage. “Health is a human right. It’s time for Universal Health Coverage for everyone, everywhere”. (via @WHO  see Tweet)

 

2 – New Series from The Lancet Journals: The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs and economics (free registration required for all articles and commentaries)

Commentaries: Tax sugar, alcohol and tobacco to help the poor, say experts – The Guardian (free) AND Taxes on soft drinks, alcohol and tobacco are of most benefit to the poor – Imperial College London (free)

See also: To Improve Global Health, Tax the Things that are Killing Us (free policies, articles and commentaries)

 

3 – Preventing type 2 diabetes in people with ‘prediabetes’: do diet and exercise work? – Evidently Cochrane (free)

 

4 – Physiotherapy education before major abdominal surgery reduces lung complications – NIHR Signal (free)

See original article: Preoperative physiotherapy for the prevention of respiratory complications after upper abdominal surgery: pragmatic, double blinded, multicentre randomised controlled trial – The BMJ (free)

 

5 – Guideline summaries: 2018 ESC Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Syncope – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Practical Instructions for the 2018 ESC Syncope Guidelines – American College of Cardiology (free)

Original Documents: 2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope (free) AND Practical Instructions for the 2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope (free)

 

6 – “A Guide to Gutsy Living”: Patient-Driven Development of a Pediatric Ostomy Toolkit – Pediatrics (free)

Commentary: New guide helps kids, adolescents living with ostomies – Reuters (free)

 

7 – Percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Summary: Featured Review: Vertebroplasty for treating spinal fractures due to osteoporosis – Cochrane Library (free)

“High quality evidence shows that vertebroplasty does not provide more clinically important benefits than placebo but may cause people harm”.

 

8 – EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on hepatitis E virus infection – Journal of Hepatology (free)

 

9 – Guideline on management of the acute asthma attack in children by Italian Society of Pediatrics – Italian Journal of Pediatrics (free)

 

10 – Outpatient Talc Administration by Indwelling Pleural Catheter for Malignant Effusion – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) (see Visual Abstract)

Commentary: Outpatient talc administration improves malignant effusion outcomes – Chest Physician (free)

 

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