Daily Archives: August 7, 2018
Tue, August 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!
7 Aug, 2018 | 02:42h | UTC
News release: New tools, old rules: limit screen-based recreational media at home – AHA/ASA Newsroom (free)
5 – Patient–physician gender concordance and increased mortality among female heart attack patients – PNAS (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks If Treated by Female Doctors – The Atlantic (free) AND Women survive a heart attack more often when their doctor is female, study finds – STAT (free) AND Women survive heart attacks better with women doctors – Washington University in St. Louis, via ScienceDaily (free)
6 – Review: Oxygen Treatment in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine – Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (free)
7 – Review: Liver enzymes: No trivial elevations, even if asymptomatic – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)
8 – Opinion: Anti-Vaccine Activists Have Taken Vaccine Science Hostage – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“Should researchers not publish findings when there’s a chance they might be misinterpreted and scare the public?” (via @NYTHealth see Tweet)
9 – Red blood cell transfusion to treat or prevent complications in sickle cell disease: an overview of Cochrane reviews – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Summary: An overview of Cochrane Reviews on red blood cell transfusions to treat or prevent sickle cell disease-related complications – Cochrane Library (free)
10 – Microvascular Outcomes in Patients With Diabetes After Bariatric Surgery Versus Usual Care: A Matched Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Bariatric Surgery for Diabetes May Halve the Risk for Microvascular Disease – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Bariatric surgery linked to significant reduction in microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes – MedicalXpress (free)