Fri August 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Menopausal hormones: definitive evidence for breast cancer – The Lancet (free) AND Menopausal hormone therapy and 20-year breast cancer mortality – The Lancet (free) AND Hormone therapy during menopause raises breast cancer risk for years, study finds – STAT (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at HRT use and risk of breast cancer – Science Media Centre (free)

2 – WHO joins coalition for free digital access to health research – World Health Organization (free)

See also: World Health Organization and TDR Join cOAlition S to Support Free and Immediate Access to Health Research – Plan S (free)

Related: Plan S: Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality (free) AND Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand (free)

3 – Is IJ or Subclavian Safer Under Ultrasound Guidance? – Journal Feed (free)

Original Article: Complications in internal jugular vs subclavian ultrasound-guided central venous catheterization: a comparative randomized trial – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

4 – News Release: FDA recommends health care facilities and manufacturers begin transitioning to duodenoscopes with disposable components to reduce risk of patient infection – U.S. Food & Drug Administration (free)

Commentaries: FDA: Hospitals Should Start Switching to Duodenoscopes with Disposable Endcaps – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Hospitals Should Replace Infection-Prone Scopes With Safer Models, F.D.A. Says – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND FDA Urges Transition to Disposable Duodenoscopes – Medscape (free registration required)

Related: Duodenoscopes: These Medical Devices Are Inserted Into 500,000 Patients Each Year — but Are Tough to Sterilize (free commentary, reviews and guidelines)

5 – Medical education needs to stop burning out students — now – STAT (free)

Related: Meta-analysis: The Global Prevalence of Anxiety Among Medical Students (free studies)

6 – RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials – The BMJ (free)

7 – Screening for Social Determinants of Health: The Known and Unknown – JAMA (free)

Commentary: JAMA paper: Doctors encouraged to consider social determinants screening, referrals – Northwell Health (free)

8 – Initiation of sodium polystyrene sulphonate and the risk of gastrointestinal adverse events in advanced chronic kidney disease: a nationwide study – Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (free)

Commentary: Hyperkalemia Drug Again Linked to Adverse GI Events – Renal & Urology News (free)

Related Study: Risk of Hospitalization for Serious Adverse Gastrointestinal Events Associated with Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate (link to abstract and commentary)

9 – Use of sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and risk of major cardiovascular events and heart failure: Scandinavian register based cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: SGLT2 inhibitors cut heart failure risk for T2D patients – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Newer diabetes drug drops heart failure risk by 34 percent, study says – UPI (free)

Related observational studies: SGLT2 agents may reduce cardiovascular risk in diabetics (link to abstract and commentaries)

10 – Intake of Dietary Fiber, Fruits, and Vegetables and Risk of Diverticulitis – American Journal of Gastroenterology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: More fruit and cereal fiber tied to less risk of common bowel disease – Reuters (free)