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“WHO welcomes the Vatican’s decision to ban the sale of cigarettes as of next year. Tobacco kills more than 7 million people every year” (RT @WHO see Tweet)

Research: Mechanical or Biologic Prostheses for Aortic-Valve and Mitral-Valve Replacement

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:08h | UTC

Mechanical or Biologic Prostheses for Aortic-Valve and Mitral-Valve Replacement – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Mechanical heart valve often the safest choice – Stanford Medicine (free) AND Mechanical or Biologic Prostheses for Aortic-Valve and Mitral-Valve Replacement? – NEJM 360 Resident (free) AND Mechanical or Tissue Valve for AVR and MVR – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Mechanical Valves Show Mortality Benefit Over Biologic Valves – Medscape (free registration required) AND Heart valve replacement success may depend on age, valve type – Reuters (free)

Guideline: Bipolar disorder

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:08h | UTC

NICE Guideline: Bipolar disorder: assessment and management (free)

Research: Thrombectomy 6 to 24 Hours after Stroke with a Mismatch between Deficit and Infarct

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:10h | UTC

Thrombectomy 6 to 24 Hours after Stroke with a Mismatch between Deficit and Infarct – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Editorial: A New DAWN for Imaging-Based Selection in the Treatment of Acute Stroke (free)

Commentaries: Landmark study may impact standard stroke treatment guidelines – MedicalXpress (free) AND Thrombectomy Works While Infarct Core is Small – MedPage Today (free registration required)

“DAWN data: Consider a “tissue window” rather than a “time window”” (from MedPage Today)

Meta-Analysis: Choice of implant combinations in total hip replacement

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:07h | UTC

Choice of implant combinations in total hip replacement: systematic review and network meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: What is the most effective type of hip implant combination for patients undergoing a hip replacement? – University of Bristol (free)

“…there is no evidence that any of the newer hip implant combinations, such as ceramic or uncemented, are better than the widely used small head metal-on-plastic cemented hip combination, which has been commonly used since the 1960s”.

How to survive the medical misinformation mess

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:04h | UTC

How to survive the medical misinformation mess – European Journal of Clinical Investigation (free) (RT @RasoiniR see Tweet)

Meta-Analysis: Exercise for the Prevention of Low Back Pain

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:05h | UTC

Exercise for the Prevention of Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials – American Journal of Epidemiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Exercise may help prevent low back pain or make it less severe – Reuters (free)

Fri, November 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

17 Nov, 2017 | 01:21h | UTC

1 – Exploring Attributes of High-Value Primary Care – Annals of Family Medicine (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)

2 – 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)

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

4 – 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).

5 – Timing of Angiography and Outcomes in High-Risk Patients With Non–ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction Managed Invasively – Circulation (free)

“High risk NSTEMI undergoing cath within 12 hours had lower risk of death and MI at 180 days” (RT @CircAHA see Tweet)

6 – Why we should care that many editors of top medical journals get healthcare industry payments – Health News Reviews (free)

Original article: Payments by US pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to US medical journal editors: retrospective observational study – The BMJ (free)

7 – Review: Undernutrition and severe acute malnutrition in children – The BMJ (free)

Infographic: Screening and referring children under 5 years old with acute undernutrition (free PDF)

8 – Review: Diabetic foot – The BMJ (free)

Infographic: A visual overview of the primary care assessment and monitoring of a diabetic foot (free PDF)

9 – Review of Strategies to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) in Adult ICUs – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free) (via @brhospitalist)

10 – Simple steps help prevent ICU delirium – ACP Hospitalist (free)

Research: Circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of seven cancers

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:04h | UTC

Circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of seven cancers: Mendelian randomisation study – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Vitamin D level not associated with cancer risk – Clinical Adviser (free)

“These results, in combination with previous literature, provide evidence that population-wide screening for vitamin D deficiency and subsequent widespread vitamin D supplementation should not currently be recommended as a strategy for primary cancer prevention”.

Thu, November 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

16 Nov, 2017 | 03:11h | UTC

1 – Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services – Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (free)

Summary: Periodic preventive health visits: A more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services (free)

News release: Annual checkups do not result in better health outcomes, national task force reaffirms (free)

2 – Sudden Cardiac Arrest during Participation in Competitive Sports – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Rare During Competitive Sports – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Cardiac arrest study in young athletes raises heart screening questions – Reuters (free) AND Cardiac Arrest Rare in Young Athletes But Tough to Predict – Health (free) AND Screening programs unlikely to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in competitive athletes – St. Michael’s Hospital, via EurekAlert (free)

3 – Guidelines for the prevention and control of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosain health care facilities – World Health Organization (free)

Commentary: WHO offers guidance on carbapenem-resistant bacteria – CIDRAP (free)

4 – CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning – Stanford ML Group (free)

“We develop an algorithm that can detect pneumonia from chest X-rays at a level exceeding practicing radiologists”

5 – The Patients vs. Paperwork Problem for Doctors – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

6 – World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day, 15 November 2017: A round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)

7 – Comparative clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of endovascular strategy vopen repair for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: three year results of the IMPROVE randomised trial – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Endovascular or open repair for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm? (free)

Commentary: Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm – MedicalXpress (free)

8 – Health Effects and Public Health Concerns of Energy Drink Consumption in the United States: A Mini-Review – Frontiers in Public Health (free)

Commentaries: Serious health risks associated with energy drinks – ScienceDaily (free)

“To curb this growing public health issue, policy makers should regulate sales and marketing towards children and adolescents and set upper limits on caffeine” (from ScienceDaily)

9 – Effects of Bariatric Surgery in Obese Patients With Hypertension: The GATEWAY Randomized Trial (Gastric Bypass to Treat Obese Patients With Steady Hypertension) – Circulation (free)

Commentary: Bariatric Surgery Can Lead to HTN ‘Remission’ in Obese: GATEWAY – Medscape (free registration required) AND Gastric Bypass to Treat Obese Patients With Steady Hypertension – GATEWAY – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

10 – Effects of weight loss interventions for adults who are obese on mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

Mon, November 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!

20 Nov, 2017 | 03:31h | UTC

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

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

2 – 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)

3 – 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)

4 – The High Costs of Unnecessary Care – JAMA (free)

5 – “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)

6 – 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)

7 – Bird Flu Is Spreading in Asia, Experts (Quietly) Warn – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

8 – Taking Care of the Physician – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

9 – Pearls and pitfalls in comprehensive critical care echocardiography – Critical Care (free)

10 – 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)

Meta-Analysis: Long-term Sustainability of Diabetes Prevention Approaches

20 Nov, 2017 | 14:03h | UTC

Long-term Sustainability of Diabetes Prevention Approaches: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Lifestyle Modifications Slow Progression To Diabetes As Effectively As Medications – Medical Research (free) AND Lifestyle changes successfully reduce incidence of diabetes – MedicalXpress (free) AND Lifestyle changes—not medications—linked to sustained risk reduction for diabetes – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Wed, November 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

15 Nov, 2017 | 00:52h | UTC

1 – Association of Blood Pressure Lowering With Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Across Blood Pressure Levels: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Treating modestly high blood pressure may not boost survival odds – Reuters (free) AND No cardiovascular disease reduction with intensive blood pressure lowering treatment – Umea University, via EurekAlert (free)

“”Primary preventive BP lowering is associated with reduced risk for death and CVD if baseline SBP is 140 mm Hg or higher.” published same day as @ACCinTouch guideline w/SBP goals <130 mm Hg. Cognitive dissonance?” (RT @kennylinafp see Tweet)

2 – Noninvasive Cardiac Testing vs Clinical Evaluation Alone in Acute Chest Pain: A Secondary Analysis of the ROMICAT-II Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Editorial: Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Department (free)

Commentaries: Does Clinical Evaluation Plus Noninvasive Cardiac Testing Improve Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients with Chest Pain? – The JAMA Network (free) AND Noninvasive Cardiac Testing No Better Than Clinical Eval for Low-Risk Acute Chest Pain – Physician’s First Watch (free)

“Non-invasive testing of chest pain patients in the ED – longer stay; more testing, radiation and cost; no benefit”. (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)

3 – World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017: A round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)

4 – Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests – Gut (free)

5 – Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time – Clinical Psychological Science (free)

Commentaries: Increased Hours Online Correlate With An Uptick In Teen Depression, Suicidal Thoughts – NPR (free) AND Smartphones a likely culprit in the recent decline in teen mental health – STAT (free)

6 – Tinder and Grindr don’t want to talk about their role in rising STDs – VOX (free)

7 – Review: The Diagnosis of Chronic Coronary Heart Disease – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)

8 – Aspirin in Patients With Previous Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Perioperative aspirin may improve short-term outcomes after noncardiac surgery in patients with prior PCI – ACP Internist (free) AND Aspirin can prevent heart attacks after noncardiac surgery in patients with prior PCI – University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Aspirin Protective Against Early Death/MI in Prior PCI Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery – TCTMD (free)

9 – Perinatal mortality associated with induction of labour versus expectant management in nulliparous women aged 35 years or over: An English national cohort study – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Labor induction at 40 weeks associated with lower risk of perinatal mortality – PLOS, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Induction at Term Cuts Rates of Infant Death in Older First-Time Moms – MedPage Today (free registration required) Inducing Older Moms at 40 Weeks May Lower Stillbirth Risk – Medscape (free registration required)

10 – Effect of an Intervention to Promote Breastfeeding on Asthma, Lung Function, and Atopic Eczema at Age 16 Years: Follow-up of the PROBIT Randomized Trial – JAMA Pediatrics (free)

Commentary: Prolonged breastfeeding linked to halving of later eczema risk – OnMedica (free)