Mon, June 12 – 10 Medical Stories of The Day!
12 Jun, 2017 | 00:10h | UTC
1 – New Series from The Lancet: Health in Humanitarian Crises (free registration required)
Related: How to Fix the Broken Humanitarian System: A Q&A with Paul Spiegel – Global Health NOW (free)
“Evidence is important to guide more effective & efficient health responses in humanitarian contexts” (RT @TheLancet see Tweet)
Editorial: The Need to Test Strategies Based on Common Sense (free)
The JAMA Network – For the Media: Home Monitoring of Blood Sugar Did Not Improve Glycemic Control After 1 Year (free)
Commentary: Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes treatment? – University of North Carolina Health Care, via EurekAlert (free)
Related: Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose – Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (free)
“Another RCT showing no benefit for Glucose Self-monitoring in Non–Insulin-Treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes” (RT @PaulGlasziou see Tweet)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
5 – ‘How long have I got?’: Why many cancer patients don’t have answers – USA Today (free)
Related: Integration of Palliative Care Into Standard Oncology Care: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update (free)
See more on Standardized Criteria for Palliative Care Consultation in our April 24 issue, see #8
“ASCO now recommends that everyone with advanced cancer receive palliative care within eight weeks of diagnosis.” (RT @cancerassassin1 see Tweet)
6 – Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies – Neurology (free)
Commentary: New International Guidelines Issued on Dementia with Lewy Bodies – Mayo Clinic, via NewsWise (free)
7 – Timing of food introduction and development of food sensitization in a prospective birth cohort – Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Delayed food introduction may increase likelihood of allergy in later childhood – McMaster University, via News Medical (free)
Commentaries: Risk of HF and Death in Patients on SGLT-2 Inhibitors – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND SGLT2 inhibitors may have class effect for reduction of cardiac risk – ACP Diabetes Monthly (free)
Observational data suggests these class of drugs may be associated with lower risk of heart failure and deaths compared to other drugs.
9- Canagliflozin will receive new boxed warning about amputation risks – ACP Internist (free)
FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA confirms increased risk of leg and foot amputations with the diabetes medicine canagliflozin (Invokana, Invokamet, Invokamet XR) (free)
10 – Working with influenza-like illness: Presenteeism among US health care personnel during the 2014-2015 influenza season – American Journal of Infection Control (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Working while sick – ACP Internist (free) AND Health worker survey reveals many work during flu illness – CIDRAP (free)
Over 40% of surveyed health care personnel worked with self-reported influenza-like illness. “To reduce levels of health-worker–associated flu transmission, the researchers said that misconceptions about working while sick and sick leave policies both need to be addressed” (from CIDRAP)