Fri October 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Comprehensive comparative effectiveness and safety of first-line antihypertensive drug classes: a systematic, multinational, large-scale analysis – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Most Prescribed Blood Pressure Drugs May Be Less Effective than Others – Columbia University Irving Medical Center (free) AND Diuretics Better Than ACE Inhibitors as Initial Hypertension Treatment, Analysis Suggests – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

Related Cochrane Review: Thiazides best first choice for hypertension (free)

2 – Two out of three wild poliovirus strains eradicated – World Health Organization (free)

Commentaries: World Polio Day: Wild poliovirus type 3 declared eradicated – CIDRAP (free) AND WHO just declared another polio virus strain eradicated. There’s one more to go. – VOX (free) AND Two Strains of Polio Are Gone, but the End of the Disease Is Still Far Off – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Two Strains of Polio Down, One to Go – Scientific American (3 articles per month are free)

3 – Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on Haemodialysis – BMC Nephrology (free)

4 – Preventing opioid prescription after major surgery: a scoping review of opioid-free analgesia – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free)

Related Review: The rising tide of opioid use and abuse: the role of the anesthesiologist – Perioperative Medicine (free)

5 – Series: Drug Use – The Lancet (free articles, commentaries and podcast – registration required)

6 – Pan-cancer whole-genome analyses of metastatic solid tumours – Nature (free)

Commentaries: Huge whole-genome study of human metastatic cancers – Nature (free) AND Whole-genome study of metastatic tumors provides a catalog of genetic features of metastatic cancer – MedicalXpress (free)

7 – The global need and availability of blood products: a modelling study – The Lancet Haematology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Hospitals Around The World Have A Dire Shortage Of Blood – NPR (free) AND 61% of countries have insufficient blood supplies – OnMedica (free)

8 – The Silent Heart Attack You Didn’t Know You Had – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Related Studies: Silent Myocardial Infarction Often Precedes Sudden Cardiac Death (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Cohort Study: Long-term Outcomes of Unrecognized MI (link to abstract and commentaries)

9 – Association of Occupational Exposure to Disinfectants With Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among US Female Nurses – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Are Disinfectants Putting Nurses at Risk of COPD? – HealthDay (free) AND Nurses Exposed to Chemical Disinfectants May Have Greater Risk Of COPD – MedicalResearch.com (free)

Related Research: Cleaning at Home and at Work in Relation to Lung Function Decline and Airway Obstruction (link to abstract and commentaries)

10 – Psychiatric morbidity and suicidal behaviour in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentary: Suicide and mental illness in low- and middle-income countries – The Mental Elf (free)