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Research: Association between maternal sleep practices and late stillbirth

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:37h | UTC

Association between maternal sleep practices and late stillbirth – findings from a stillbirth case-control study – British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (free)

Commentary: Stillbirth risk doubled in women sleeping on their back – OnMedica (free) AND Women advised to sleep on side to help prevent stillbirth – BBC (free)

Review – Elimination of schistosomiasis: the tools required

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:35h | UTC

Elimination of schistosomiasis: the tools required – Infectious Diseases of Poverty (free)

Policy Statement: Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:38h | UTC

Policy Statement: Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News release: The AAP and the Obesity Society Address the Social and Emotional Impact of Weight Stigma on Children and Teens (free)

Commentaries: Help obese kids avoid weight stigma, doctors advise – Reuters (free) AND How Not to Talk to a Child Who Is Overweight – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Review: Current and new challenges in occupational lung diseases

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:35h | UTC

Current and new challenges in occupational lung diseases – European Respiratory Review (free)

Richard Lehman’s journal review, 20 November 2017

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:34h | UTC

Richard Lehman’s journal review, 20 November 2017 – The BMJ (free)

Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.

Fri, November 24 – 10 Stories of The Day!

24 Nov, 2017 | 04:35h | UTC

1 – Living systematic review series published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (free articles)

– News Release – Cochrane Community (free)

– Living systematic review: 1. Introduction—the why, what, when, and how (free)

– Living systematic reviews: 2. Combining human and machine effort (free)

– Living systematic reviews: 3. Statistical methods for updating meta-analyses (free)

– Living systematic reviews: 4. Living guideline recommendations (free)

“Living Systematic Reviews are future of all Reviews” (RT @PaulGlasziou see Tweet)

2 – Thyroid Function and the Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality: The Rotterdam Study – Circulation Research (free PDF)

Commentaries: Higher thyroid hormone levels associated with artery disease and death – AHA/ASA Newsroom (free) AND High Thyroid-Hormone Levels Linked to Increased CVD Mortality – Medscape (free registration required)

3 – 2017 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations Summary – Resuscitation (free)

Commentary: Updated International Guidelines for Ventilation During CPR – Journal Watch (free)

4 – Inappropriate Management of Asymptomatic Patients With Positive Urine Cultures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Open Forum Infectious Diseases (free)

“OFID: Despite guidelines, continued overtreatment of patients with positive urine cultures but no symptoms” (RT @IDSAInfo see Tweet)

5 – Predictors of pneumonia in lower respiratory tract infections: 3C prospective cough complication cohort study – European Respiratory Journal (free)

Commentaries: Four clinical signs can improve GP pneumonia diagnosis, finds study – Pulse (free) AND Four simple tests could help GPs spot pneumonia and reduce unnecessary antibiotics – European Lung Fundation, via EurekAlert (free)

6 – Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Comparing the Efficacy of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs, Opioids, and Paracetamol in the Treatment of Acute Renal Colic – European Urology (free) (via @KariTikkinen and @EUplatinum)

“In kidney stone–related acute pain episodes in patients with adequate renal function, treatment with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs offers effective and most sustained pain relief, with fewer side effects, when compared with opioids or paracetamol”.

7 – Multidrug resistant (or antimicrobial-resistant) pathogens – alternatives to new antibiotics? – Swiss Medical Weekly (free)

8 – Point-of-use fortification of foods with micronutrient powders containing iron in children of preschool and school-age – Cochrane Library (link to summary – $ for full-text)

“Powdered vitamins and minerals added to foods at the point-of-use reduces anaemia and iron deficiency in preschool- and school-age children”.

9 – High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy is superior to conventional oxygen therapy but not to noninvasive mechanical ventilation on intubation rate: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Critical Care (free)

10 – Comprehensive assessment when older people are in hospital improves their chances of getting home and living independently – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital – Cochrane Library (free summary – $ for full-text) AND News Release: Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital (free)

“Comprehensive assessment when older people are in hospital improves their chances of getting home and living independently” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

Review: Practical Considerations for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Older Adults

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:33h | UTC

Practical Considerations for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Older Adults – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

Guideline: Pharmacologic management of chronic neuropathic pain

25 Nov, 2017 | 22:32h | UTC

Pharmacologic management of chronic neuropathic pain: Review of the Canadian Pain Society consensus statement – Canadian Family Physician (free)

Wed, November 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

22 Nov, 2017 | 01:36h | UTC

1 – Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial – The Lancet (free)

Editorial: No benefit of arthroscopy in subacromial shoulder pain (free)

Commentaries: Common shoulder surgery may offer little pain relief – OnMedica (free) AND Is a common shoulder surgery useless? – MedicalXpress (free) AND Popular Surgery To Ease Chronic Shoulder Pain Called Into Question – NPR (free)

2 – Hepatitis B Vaccination, Screening, and Linkage to Care: Best Practice Advice From the American College of Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: ACP, CDC issue best practice advice on HBV – ACP Internist (free) AND CDC, ACP Offer Joint Guidance on Hepatitis B Vaccination and Screening – Physician’s First Watch (free)

3 – Management of Tiny Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: A Comparative Effectiveness Analysis – JAMA Neurology (free)

Editorial: Leaving Tiny, Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Untreated: Why Is It So Hard? (free)

4 – Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Hormonal Contraception May Increase Risk of Suicide, Study Suggests – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Oral Contraceptives Linked to Suicide – Medscape (free registration required)

5 – 2017 SEOM clinical guideline for treatment of cancer pain – Clinical and Translational Oncology (free)

6 – Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clincians (free)

Commentaries: Cancer: 42 percent of cases down to risk factors you can change – Medical News Today (free) AND Preventable Cancer Estimate Reaches 40% – MedPage Today (free registration required)

7 – New Choosing Wisely Canada list: Six Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question (RT @CPhAAPhC see Tweet)

See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)

8 – Deprescribing antihyperglycemic agents in older persons: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline – Canadian Family Physician (free)

Related algorithm: Antihyperglycemic deprescribing algorithm (free PDF)

See also other Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free resources)

9 – Detecting hip fractures with radiologist-level performance using deep neural networks – Cornell University Library (free)

10 – Conjoint Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension With Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease in Parents: A Retrospective Cohort Study – American Journal of Epidemiology (free)

Invited Commentary: Gestational Hypertension and Diabetes—A Major Public Health Concern (free)

Commentaries: Pregnancy-related conditions taken together leave moms — and dads — at risk – McGill University Health Centre, via EurekAlert (free) AND Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension = Huge Risk for Later Disease – Medscape (free registration required)

Thu, November 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!

23 Nov, 2017 | 03:42h | UTC

1 – Children, Adolescents and Screens: What We Know and What We Need To Learn – Pediatrics Supplement (free articles)

– Table of contents

– Introduction

– Digital Screen Media and Cognitive Development

– Media Multitasking and Cognitive, Psychological, Neural, and Learning Differences

– Benefits and Costs of Social Media in Adolescence

– Digital Life and Youth Well-being, Social Connectedness, Empathy, and Narcissism

– Digital Media, Anxiety, and Depression in Children

– Internet Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents

– Virtual Reality in Pediatric Psychology

– Digital Media and Sleep in Childhood and Adolescence

– Screen Media Exposure and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

– Digital Media and Risks for Adolescent Substance Abuse and Problematic Gambling

– Small Screen Use and Driving Safety

– Parenting and Digital Media

– Children’s Privacy in the Big Data Era: Research Opportunities

– Developing Digital and Media Literacies in Children and Adolescents

– Digital Media, Participatory Politics, and Positive Youth Development

– Digital Inequality and Developmental Trajectories of Low-income, Immigrant, and Minority Children

– Global Perspectives on Children’s Digital Opportunities: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda

– Screen Violence and Youth Behavior

– Defining Cyberbullying

– The Effect of Advertising on Children and Adolescents

– Social Group Stories in the Media and Child Development

– Sexual Media and Childhood Well-being and Health

2 – Combination Therapy Is Superior to Sequential Monotherapy for the Initial Treatment of Hypertension: A Double‐Blind Randomized Controlled Trial – Journal of The American Heart Association (free)

“Initial combination therapy can be recommended for patients with BP >150/95 mm Hg”

3 – Coffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomes – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Coffee gets a clean bill of health (free)

Commentaries: Moderate coffee drinking ‘more likely to benefit health than to harm it’ say experts – The BMJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Coffee: No Harm, No Foul If Only 4 Cups Daily – MedPage Today (free registration required)

4 – Oxygen therapy for acute myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-analysis – International Journal of Nursing Studies (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: Supplemental Oxygen Is Associated with Excess Risk for Recurrent Myocardial Infarction – Journal Watch ($)

“Supplemental Oxygen Associated w/ Excess Risk for Recurrent Myocardial Infarction. It’s time to stop the free flow of oxygen when not absolutely needed” (RT @JWatch see Tweet)

5 – An International Consortium Update: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome in Adolescence – Hormone Research in Paediactrics (free)

6 – Richard Smith: How might artificial intelligence improve healthcare? – The BMJ Opinion (free)

7 – Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free)

8 – Sugar industry sponsorship of germ-free rodent studies linking sucrose to hyperlipidemia and cancer: An historical analysis of internal documents – PLOS Biology (free)

Commentaries: What The Industry Knew About Sugar’s Health Effects, But Didn’t Tell Us – NPR (free) AND Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Big Sugar Buried These Concerning Health Studies 50 Years Ago – ScienceAlerts (free) AND Sugar Industry Suppressed Evidence of Health Risks of Sucrose – UC San Francisco (free)

9 – As Malaria Resists Treatment, Experts Warn of Global Crisis – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

10 – Effects of Sodium Reduction and the DASH Diet in Relation to Baseline Blood Pressure – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: DASH Diet, Sodium, and Baseline Blood Pressure – Latest in Cardiology, American College of Cardiology (free) AND Big BP Reductions When DASH Diet Combined With Low Sodium Intake – TCTMD (free)

Tue, November 21 – 10 Stories of The Day!

21 Nov, 2017 | 00:21h | UTC

1 – Development and validation of QDiabetes-2018 risk prediction algorithm to estimate future risk of type 2 diabetes: cohort study – The BMJ (free) (RT @JuliaHCox see Tweet)

See QDiabetes 2018 risk calculator (free)

2 – Clinical Guidelines Synopsis: Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults – JAMA (free)

Editorial: The New 2017 ACC/AHA Guidelines “Up the Pressure” on Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension (free)

Related Viewpoint: The 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline for High Blood Pressure (free)

See original AHA/ACC Hypertension Guidelines and related resources in our November 13^th issue (see #1)

3 – Policy Statement: Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News release: The AAP and the Obesity Society Address the Social and Emotional Impact of Weight Stigma on Children and Teens (free)

Commentaries: Help obese kids avoid weight stigma, doctors advise – Reuters (free) AND How Not to Talk to a Child Who Is Overweight – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

4 – Association between maternal sleep practices and late stillbirth – findings from a stillbirth case-control study – British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (free)

Commentary: Stillbirth risk doubled in women sleeping on their back – OnMedica (free) AND Women advised to sleep on side to help prevent stillbirth – BBC (free)

5 – Direct medical costs of motorcycle crashes in Ontario – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)

Commentaries: Motorcycle crashes cause 5 times as many deaths as car accidents, 6 times the health costs – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Motorcycle crashes are alarmingly common — and incredibly costly – STAT (free)

6 – Elimination of schistosomiasis: the tools required – Infectious Diseases of Poverty (free)

7 – Current and new challenges in occupational lung diseases – European Respiratory Review (free)

8 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 20 November 2017 – The BMJ (free)

Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.

9 – Practical Considerations for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Older Adults – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

10 – Pharmacologic management of chronic neuropathic pain: Review of the Canadian Pain Society consensus statement – Canadian Family Physician (free)

Guideline: Infection prevention and control measures and tools for the prevention of entry of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae into healthcare settings

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:13h | UTC

Infection prevention and control measures and tools for the prevention of entry of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae into healthcare settings: guidance from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control (free)

New global commitment to end tuberculosis

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:13h | UTC

News release: New global commitment to end tuberculosis – World Health Organization (free)

Commentary: Global health ministers commit to end TB – CIDRAP (free)

The High Costs of Unnecessary Care

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:11h | UTC

The High Costs of Unnecessary Care – JAMA (free)

Research: The association between paternal and adolescent depressive symptoms

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:12h | UTC

The association between paternal and adolescent depressive symptoms: evidence from two population-based cohorts – The Lancet (free)

Editorial: The effect of paternal depression on depressive symptoms in adolescent offspring (free)

Commentaries: Dads’ Depression Tied to Increased Depression Risk in Teenage Children – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Teenage depression linked to father’s depression – University College London, via ScienceDaily (free)

Research: Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:09h | UTC

Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death – a nationwide cohort study – Scientific Reports (free)

Commentaries: Dog ownership linked to lower mortality – Uppsala University, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Owning A Dog May Help Your Heart, Study Shows – Forbes (free)

Research: An Examination of Drivers’ Distractions, Causes, and Potential Interventions

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:10h | UTC

“Maybe I Will Just Send a Quick Text…” – An Examination of Drivers’ Distractions, Causes, and Potential Interventions – Frontiers in Psycology (free)

Commentaries: Young Men, Frequent Drivers Most Likely To Get Distracted While Driving – NPR (free) AND Risk of distracted driving predicted by age, gender, personality and driving frequency – MedicalXpress (free)

Commentaries: Lower cost, higher quality primary care practices are distinguished by six attributes – American Academy of Family Physicians, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Identifying ‘high-value’ practices in primary care; a Stanford study pinpoints key attributes – Stanford Medicine (free)

Research: Validation of the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule in patients with acute headache

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:07h | UTC

Validation of the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule in patients with acute headache – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)

Commentaries: Thunderclap Headache: Ottawa Rule To Exclude Subarachnoid Bleeding – Medical Research (free) AND New tool identifies headache patients at risk of aneurysms in emergency department – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free)

Critical Lessons From High-Value Oncology Practices

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:06h | UTC

Critical Lessons From High-Value Oncology Practices – JAMA Oncology (free)

Editorial: Strategies to Achieve High-Value Oncology Care: A Beginning (free)

Audio interview: Critical Lessons From High-Value Oncology Practices (free)

Commentary: High-Value Cancer Care Keeps Costs Down? Yes, It’s Possible! – Medscape (free registration required) AND High-value oncology practices include “support for the patient journey” – Stanford Medicine (free)

Changing Health Care Compensation by Rewarding Value-Based Outcomes

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:05h | UTC

Changing Health Care Compensation by Rewarding Value-Based Outcomes – NEJM Catalyst (free)

Research: Speed of processing training results in lower risk of dementia

20 Nov, 2017 | 18:04h | UTC

Speed of processing training results in lower risk of dementia – Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions (free)

Commentaries: Can brain training reduce dementia risk? Despite new research, the jury is still out – The Guardian (free) AND Nonpharma Intervention Cuts Dementia Risk by a Third – Medscape (free registration required) AND Dementia breakthrough? Brain-training game ‘significantly reduces risk’ – Medical News Today (free)

“There are good reasons to be cautious about a new study claiming computer-based training can reduce the risk of dementia. But what does work?” (from The Guardian).