Mon, Oct 17 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

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1 – You Can Monitor Your Heart With A Smartphone. But Should You? – NPR Health News (RT @EricTopol)

2 – It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ – David Colquhoun | Aeon Essays

3 – Ebola drug narrowly missed threshold to prove effectiveness – STAT News

4 – The global burden of disease – The Economist

5 – Skip that annual physical exam: Evidence increasingly suggests it’s useless – SALON

6 – Hospital Patients at Greater Risk for C. diff If Prior Bed Occupant Took Antibiotics – Physician’s First Watch

7 – Prenatal Steroids Improve Neonatal Outcomes When Given After 34 Weeks’ Gestation – Physician’s First Watch

8 – Brazil will release billions of lab-grown mosquitoes to combat infectious disease. Will it work? – Science Magazine (RT @PreetiNMalani)

9 – Our life span could have reached its peak – World Economic Forum

10 – Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD – Scientific American