Mon, Dec 5 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

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1 – WHO celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities – World Health Organization

2 – Disability and health – World Health Organization

3 – The win-win of disability inclusion – International Labour Organization

4 – Global Burden of Cancer 2015 – JAMA Oncology

5 – Cancer’s deadly toll grows in less developed countries as new cases increase globally – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

6 – Alpha blockers for treatment of ureteric stones: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ

7 – Bringing Up Baby, Helping the Economy – Scientific American

8 – A Third of People Given Antibiotics Don’t Need Them – National Geographic

9 – Antibiotics leave children ‘more likely to contract drug-resistant infections’ – The Guardian

10 – Hospital Variation in Time to Epinephrine for Non-Shockable In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – Circulation (Link to Abstract – $ Required for Full-text)

Delaying epinephrine seems to be associated with reduced survival