Wed, May 24 – 10 Medical Stories of The Day!
24 May, 2017 | 00:43h | UTC
Commentaries: World Health Organization gets first leader from Africa – Nature News (free) AND WHO elects first ever African director-general after tense vote – The Guardian (free) AND World Health Organization Elects a New Director General from Ethiopia – TIME (free)
2 – Electronic WHO Postpartum Family Planning Compendium – World Health Organization (free)
How to use it: Introducing the World Health Organization Postpartum Family Planning Compendium – International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (free)
This interactive website integrates essential guidance on postpartum family planning for clinicians, program managers, and policy makers.
3 – Review: Perioperative management of patients on direct oral anticoagulants – Thrombosis Journal (free)
Related: Multiple myeloma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up – Annals of Oncology (free)
See also: News release (free) AND Top Ten Things to Know (free PDF)
6 – Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Breast Cancer – American Institute for Cancer Research (free PDF)
News release: Just one alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, exercise lowers risk – American Institute for Cancer Research, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentaries: Today’s alcohol and breast cancer headlines are wrong: Here’s how news reports could have done better – HealthNewsReview (free) AND ‘Half a glass of wine every day’ increases breast cancer risk – BBC Health News (free) AND Just One Drink a Day Raises Breast Cancer Risk – Medscape (free registration required)
7 – #ATS2017 – COPD National Action Plan – National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (link to summary) PDF report available for download (free)
Source: ATS 2017: New COPD Action Plan Outlines Strategies for Improved Care – University of Michigan, via NewsWise (free)
8 – The Worst Fat in the Food Supply – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
See also a recent study and commentaries on the effects of trans-fat bans in our April 23rd issue (see #1)
Trans-fat bans seem to be reducing cardiovascular deaths.
9 – Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals, 22 May 2017 – The BMJ Blogs (free)
Editorial: Lack of Evidence for Benefit From Long-term Use of Opioid Analgesics for Patients With Neuropathy (free)
Commentaries: Long-Term Opioid Treatment Seems Only to Add Complications to Polyneuropathy – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Long-Term Opioids May Not Help in Polyneuropathy – MedPage Today (free registration required)
“Patients had worse functional outcomes than controls; some became dependent” (from MedPage Today)