Fri May 10 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Prostate cancer: diagnosis and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

See also: NICE Quality Standard: Prostate Cancer (free)

2 – Association between Apgar scores of 7 to 9 and neonatal mortality and morbidity: population based cohort study of term infants in Sweden – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: The Apgar score and association with neonatal mortality and morbidity – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Lower ‘normal’ Apgar scores linked to poorer outcomes – OnMedica (free)

3 – Vasopressin in septic shock: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

“Vasopressin therapy in septic shock had no effect on 28-day mortality”

4 – A Deep Learning Mammography-based Model for Improved Breast Cancer Risk Prediction – Radiology (free)

Commentaries: Using AI to predict breast cancer and personalize care – MIT News (free) AND Novel artificial intelligence method predicts future risk of breast cancer – Radiological Society of North America (free)

5 – Type 1 diabetes defined by severe insulin deficiency occurs after 30 years of age and is commonly treated as type 2 diabetes – Diabetologia (free)

Commentary: Patients with late-onset type 1 diabetes commonly treated as having type 2 diabetes – ACP Diabetes (free)

6 – Management of perinatal depression with non-drug interventions – The BMJ (free)

7 – Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults – Nature (free)

Commentaries: Rural Areas Drive Increases in Global Obesity – Scientific American (free) AND Obesity rising faster in rural areas than cities – Imperial College London (free)

8 – Global alcohol exposure between 1990 and 2017 and forecasts until 2030: a modelling study – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Targets to reduce harmful alcohol use are likely to be missed as global alcohol intake increases – The Lancet (free) AND Increases in Drinking Worldwide (1990-2017) – Psychology Today (free) AND Alcohol use soaring worldwide: The average adult now consumes about 1.7 gallons of pure alcohol per year – USA Today (free)

Related: Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories (free) AND The Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Alcohol and Drug Use (free)

9 – Snakebite: WHO targets 50% reduction in deaths and disabilities – World Health Organization (free)

Executive Summary: A strategy for prevention and control – World Health Organization (free PDF)

WHO Fact Sheet: Snakebite envenoming (free)

See also: New WHO Strategy Aims to Halve the Global Impact of Snakebite (report and resources) AND Study: Global Mapping of Vulnerability to Snakebite Envenoming (free) AND Snakebites Make The List Of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’ – NPR Goats and Soda (free)

10 – Access Barriers to Antibiotics – Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (free PDF)

News Release: Lack of Access to Antibiotics is a Major Global Health Challenge (free PDF)

Commentary: Report highlights lack of access to antibiotics – CIDRAP (free)