Daily Archives: October 24, 2018
Wed, October 24 – 10 Stories of The Day!
24 Oct, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
1 – ACTIVE: A technical package for increasing physical activity – World Health Organization (free PDF)
News Release: WHO launches ACTIVE: a toolkit for countries to increase physical activity and reduce noncommunicable diseases (free)
Editorials: Challenges and Opportunities for Studying Routine Screening for Abuse (free) AND Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults in the Health Care Setting—Beyond Screening (free)
4 – Perspective: Superfoods Are a Marketing Ploy – The Atlantic (free) (via @edyong209 and @onisillos)
5 – Perspective: The Problem With Probiotics – The New York Times (free)
Related: Probiotic Safety—No Guarantees (free perspective)
“There are potential harms as well as benefits, and a lot of wishful thinking and imprecision in the marketing of products containing them.”
6 – Perspective: The Price of Knowledge: Industry-Sponsored Studies in the Era of Evidence-Based Medicine – TCTMD (free)
“How to reduce emergency doctor misinterpretation of wrist X-rays for fracture by nearly 50%? Deep learning AI, of course” (via @EricTopol see Tweet)
8 – Association of Frequency of Organic Food Consumption With Cancer Risk: Findings From the NutriNet-Santé Prospective Cohort Study – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Organic Foods for Cancer Prevention—Worth the Investment? – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Organic food and cancer – Science Media Centre (free) AND Organic foods tied to slightly lower cancer risk – Reuters (free)
9 – Atezolizumab and Nab-Paclitaxel in Advanced Triple-Negative Breast Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Not So Fast With Immune Therapy For Breast Cancer – Forbes (free) AND Immunotherapy drugs show some promise against breast cancer – STAT (free)
“…the benefit for most women was small, raising questions about whether the treatment is worth its high cost and side effects.” (from STAT)
10 – Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism During Pregnancy: A Multicenter Prospective Management Outcome Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Algorithm Rules Out Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Algorithm Validated for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Pregnancy – MedPage Today (free registration required)