Daily Archives: May 27, 2019

Mon May 27 – 10 Stories of The Day!

27 May, 2019 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Deprescribing in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free for a limited period)

Related: Position Statement: Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (several articles and commentaries on the subject)

 

2 – Change in renal function associated with drug treatment in heart failure: national guidance – Heart (free)

 

3 – Solutions for non-communicable disease prevention and control – The BMJ / World Health Organization (free articles)

Editorial: Mobilising society to implement solutions for non-communicable diseases

– National action plans to tackle NCDs: role of stakeholder network analysis

– Asking the right question: implementation research to accelerate national non-communicable disease responses

– Using economic evidence to support policy decisions to fund interventions for non-communicable diseases

– Medical education must change if we are to tackle the causes of non-communicable diseases

– Tackling NCDs in humanitarian settings is a growing challenge

– Better health and wellbeing for billion more people: integrating non-communicable diseases in primary care

– Social determinants and non-communicable diseases: time for integrated action

– Integrating mental health with other non-communicable diseases

– Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases

– A life-course approach to the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases

– Transforming the food system to fight non-communicable diseases

 

4 – Daily Self‐Weighing to Prevent Holiday‐Associated Weight Gain in Adults – Obesity (free)

Commentaries: Daily self-weighing can prevent holiday weight gain – University of Georgia (free) AND Researchers reveal new strategy for preventing holiday weight gain – The Obesity Society (free) AND Weighing yourself every day could prevent weight gain – Medical News Today (free)

 

5 – Long term tapering versus standard prednisolone treatment for first episode of childhood nephrotic syndrome: phase III randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation – The BMJ (free)

 

6 – Evolving Issues in the Treatment of Depression – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Author Interview: New Approaches to Management of Depression (free audio)

 

7 – Trends in Incidence and Stage at Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer in Adults Aged 40 Through 49 Years, 1975-2015 – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: CRC rates appear to be rising among younger adults in U.S., Europe – ACP Gastroenterology (free) AND More Younger People Getting Later Stage Colon Cancer – MedicalResearch.com (free)

Related: Two Studies Point to Increase in Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Young Adults (link to abstracts and commentaries)

 

8 – At $2.1 Million, New Gene Therapy Is The Most Expensive Drug Ever – NPR (free)

See also: No Miracle Drug Should Cost $2.1 Million – Bloomberg Opinion (free) AND This New Treatment Could Save the Lives of Babies. But It Costs $2.1 Million. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

“The price set by the Swiss drugmaker Novartis may be the world’s highest for a single treatment — prompting renewed debate about how society will pay for gene-therapy breakthroughs.” (from the New York Times)

 

9 – Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Pediatric Airway – Current Anesthesiology Reports (free)

Related Guideline: Unanticipated difficult airway management in children – the consensus statement of the Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Section and the Airway Management Section of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy and the Polish Society of Neonatology. Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy (free PDF)

 

10 – Risks and clinical predictors of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma diagnoses in adults with diagnosed NAFLD: real-world study of 18 million patients in four European cohorts – BMC Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Diabetes patients at higher risk of deadly liver disease, finds study of 18 million people – Queen Mary University of London (free) AND Diabetes patients at high risk of serious NAFLD outcomes – Medwire News (free) AND Cirrhosis and liver cancer risk higher in people with type 2 diabetes – Medical News Today (free)

 

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