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Guideline: Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:55h | UTCCommunicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Questions & Answers: WHO emergency risk communication guidance: communicating risk in public health emergencies (free)
FDA: No Codein for Kids
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:53h | UTCFDA News Release: FDA acts to protect kids from serious risks of opioid ingredients contained in some prescription cough and cold products by revising labeling to limit pediatric use (free)
Commentaries: FDA strengthens warning on opioid cold medicine – CNN (free) AND FDA: Children should not take cough medicine with codeine – AAP News (free) AND FDA Updates Labeling for Opioid-Containing Medications to Limit Use in Children – Pharmacy Times (free) AND No Opioid Cough Meds in Children Under 18, FDA Says – Medscape (free registration required)
Separating the Art of Medicine From Artificial Intelligence
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:52h | UTCSeparating the Art of Medicine From Artificial Intelligence – The Health Care Blog (free) (via @camialderighi)
Analysis: Rethinking Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:51h | UTCAnalysis: Rethinking neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer – The BMJ (free)
12 Must-Know EM Pharmacotherapy Articles of 2017
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:47h | UTC12 Must-Know EM Pharmacotherapy Articles of 2017 – Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (free)
Review – Phenotyping of Acute Kidney Injury: Beyond Serum Creatinine
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:45h | UTCPhenotyping of Acute Kidney Injury: Beyond Serum Creatinine – Seminars in Nephrology (free)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Research: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Advanced Ovarian Cancer and All Cause Mortality
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:47h | UTC
Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: December 2017
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:44h | UTCLast Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: December 2017 – eCancer News (free)
Review: Steroids in Sepsis
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:46h | UTCSteroids in Sepsis – The Bottom Line (free)
Guideline: Recommendations for Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in Patients with Chagas Disease
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:43h | UTC
WHO Prequalifies Breakthrough Vaccine for Typhoid
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:41h | UTCWHO prequalifies breakthrough vaccine for typhoid – World Health Organization (free)
Commentary: W.H.O. Approves a Safe, Inexpensive Typhoid Vaccine – The New York Times (free)
Toward a Culture of Scientific Inquiry — The Role of Medical Teaching Services
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:43h | UTCPerspective: Toward a Culture of Scientific Inquiry — The Role of Medical Teaching Services – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
WHO Guidance for Surveillance during an Influenza Pandemic
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:42h | UTCWHO Guidance for Surveillance during an Influenza Pandemic – World Health Organization (free)
Research: Perioperative Patient Outcomes in the African Surgical Outcomes Study
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:41h | UTCPerioperative patient outcomes in the African Surgical Outcomes Study: a 7-day prospective observational cohort study – The Lancet (free registration required)
Commentaries: A snapshot of surgical outcomes and needs in Africa – The Lancet (free registration required) AND Patients in Africa twice as likely to die after an operation than global average, report shows – The Guardian (free)
Research: Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy in a 30-Year Cohort Study
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:40h | UTCTreatment Outcomes in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy Treated With Established and New Antiepileptic Drugs: A 30-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study – The Lancet Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Are We Getting Better at Controlling Epilepsy? – Emergency Medicine Literature of Note (free) AND More Than a Third of Patients Do Not Respond to Antiepileptics – Physician’s Weekly (free) AND Newer Epilepsy Drugs Haven’t Boosted Seizure Control – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Epilepsy Treatment Outcomes Unchanged in Decades – Medscape (free registration required)
Tue, January 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!
16 Jan, 2018 | 00:17h | UTC
1 – European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation: 2017 update (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Related guidelines: 2017 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations Summary – Resuscitation (free) 2017 American Heart Association Focused Update on Adult Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality (free PDF) AND 2017 American Heart Association Focused Update on Pediatric Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality (free PDF)
2 – Editorial: The natural environment and emergence of antibiotic resistance – The Lancet Planetary Health (free)
Related reports: Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Approach to a Global Threat – The National Academies Press (free PDF) AND Antimicrobial Resistance: Investigating the Environmental Dimension (free PDF) AND Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally: final report and recommendations (free PDF)
3 – Effect of Changing Work Stressors and Coping Resources on the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: The OHSPIW Cohort Study – Diabetes Care (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Increased stress at work linked to higher risk of diabetes – Reuters (free)
4 – Transfer of Fresh versus Frozen Embryos in Ovulatory Women – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Frozen vs. fresh embryos for IVF? Study finds little impact on fertility – Yale News (free) AND Frozen just as good as fresh embryo when it comes to success in IVF, study shows – The Sydney Morning Herald (free) AND Live-birth rates similar among ovulating women undergoing fresh- or frozen-embryo transfer – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Fresh Embryos as Good as Frozen Ones for In Vitro Fertilization – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Commentary: Teens who were severely bullied as children at higher risk of suicidal thoughts, mental health issue – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentaries: School-based telemedicine enhances asthma management in children – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND For City Kids with Asthma, Telemedicine and In-School Care Cut ER Visits in Half – University of Rochester (free)
7 – Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“Lawsuits are pulling back the curtain on what some doctors call the Wild West of medicine: the untested and largely unregulated medical device industry” (via @NYTHealth see Tweet)
8 – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Nature Reviews Disease Primers (free)
9 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 15 January 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
A Prescription To Reduce Waste In Health Care Spending
16 Jan, 2018 | 12:39h | UTCA Prescription To Reduce Waste In Health Care Spending – NPR (free)
Mon, January 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!
15 Jan, 2018 | 00:22h | UTC
1 – International guidelines for groin hernia management – HerniaSurge Group (free)
Commentary in: Clinical Practice Guidelines, December 2017 – Medscape (free registration required)
3 – Breast Implants and the Risk of Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma in the Breast – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Breast Implants Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma – Oncology Nurse Advisor (free) AND Dutch Study Links Implants to Increased Breast-ALCL Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required)
4 – Editorial: Children and social media – The Lancet (free)
Original report: Life in ‘likes’ – Children’s Commissioner (free)
See also a recent Pediatrics supplement on Children, Adolescents and Screens (free articles) and other commentaries on Social Media and Mental Health (free articles)
Commentaries: Exercise Study Hints at Volume, Intensity Levels Needed to Improve Cardiac Fitness in Middle Age – TCTMD (free) AND Exercise in middle age can reverse heart effects of sedentary lifestyle – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Exercise May Reverse Negative Cardiac Effects of Sedentary Life – Medscape (free registration required) AND Exercise is good for you, but did this study actually show it can ‘reverse damage from heart aging’? – HealthNewsReview (free)
6 – How to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related: In 2018 we need less nonsense and more science – The Globe and Mail (free)
7 – What I’ve learned from my tally of 757 doctor suicides – The Washington Post (free)
Related: Why are doctors killing themselves? – MJA InSight (free) AND Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus – STAT (free) AND Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide – STAT (free)
“By proactively managing care for the terminally ill, the Advanced Illness Management program has produced savings of $8,000–$9,000 per patient” (via @commonwealthfnd see Tweet)
9 – Supported employment helps people with severe mental illness to obtain work – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Interventions for obtaining and maintaining employment in adults with severe mental illness, a network meta-analysis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
10 – Antipsychotics and the Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia in Individuals Hospitalized for Nonpsychiatric Conditions – Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, via Medscape (free registration required)
Commentary: Antipsychotics May Increase Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia in Older Adults – Psychiatric News Alert (free)
Related: Antipsychotic use in elderly patients and the risk of pneumonia – Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (free) AND Antipsychotic drug exposure and risk of pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies – Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety (free)
Review: Prevention of Chronic Rejection After Lung Transplantation
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:24h | UTCPrevention of chronic rejection after lung transplantation – Journal of Thoracic Disease (free)
Review – Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Underestimated Cause of Sudden Cardiac Death
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:27h | UTC
Review : ARDS in Traumatic Brain Injury
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:26h | UTC
Review: Chest Drainage Systems and Management of air Leaks After a Pulmonary Resection
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:27h | UTC
History of Lung Transplantation
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:21h | UTCHistory of lung transplantation – Journal of Thoracic Disease (free)
Review – Lung Transplantation: Acute Rejection
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:22h | UTCAcute rejection – Journal of Thoracic Disease (free)
Review: Future Directions of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
13 Jan, 2018 | 19:21h | UTCFuture Directions of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy: A Brief Review – Frontiers in Oncology (free)