Mon May 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Ulcerative colitis: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

Related Guidelines: ACG Clinical Guideline: Ulcerative Colitis in Adults – American Journal of Gastroenterology (free) AND AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Mild-to-Moderate Ulcerative Colitis – Gastroenterology (free) AND Updated S3-Guideline Ulcerative Colitis. German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS) – Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie (free) AND  Management of Paediatric Ulcerative Colitis (free)

2 – Crohn’s disease: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

Related: ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Crohn’s Disease in Adults – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free)

3 – Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society Recommendations – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

Invited Commentary: The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Cardiac Surgery Revolution – JAMA Surgery (free)

Related: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Guidelines (free articles)

4 – Practice Advisory: Management of Pregnant and Reproductive-Aged Women during a Measles Outbreak – American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (free)

See also: Measles & the MMR Vaccine: Recommendations Around Pregnancy, Including the Periconception and Postpartum Periods – University of Washington (free PDF)

Commentary: ACOG Practice Advisory: patient management during a measles outbreak – Univadis (free registration required)

5 – Should Adults Get a Measles Booster Shot? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

See also: Measles Shots Aren’t Just For Kids: Many Adults Could Use A Booster Too – NPR (free) AND HHS, CDC Address Ongoing Measles Outbreaks – AAFP (free) AND Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know – CDC (free)

6 – Podcast: Untangling the Future of Telehealth And How To Get There – The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free audio and text)

7 – Early Norepinephrine Has Potential in Septic Shock – Emergency Medicine News (free)

Original Study: Randomized Trial: Early Use of Norepinephrine in Septic Shock Resuscitation (link to abstract and commentary)

8 – Urgent steps are needed to prevent Ebola from spinning out of control in the DRC – STAT (free)

See also: ‘The world has never seen anything like this’: WHO chief on battling Ebola in a war zone – Nature (free) AND Ebola deaths top 1,000 in increasingly dangerous outbreak – CIDRAP (free)

9 – Efficacy of population‐wide diabetes and obesity prevention programs: An overview of systematic reviews on proximal, intermediate, and distal outcomes and a meta‐analysis of impact on BMI – Obesity Reviews (free)

10 – Disease progression and treatment response in data-driven subgroups of type 2 diabetes compared with models based on simple clinical features: an analysis using clinical trial data – The Lancet Endocrinology & Diabetes (free)

Commentaries: Predicting individual treatment response in diabetes – The Lancet Endocrinology & Diabetes (free) AND Simple clinical features can help personalise type 2 diabetes treatment – University of Exeter (free)

Related: Novel subgroups of adult-onset diabetes and their association with outcomes (link to abstract and commentaries)