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Review: Chemotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:36h | UTC
Review – Severe idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: what can be done?
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:38h | UTCSevere idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: what can be done? – European Respiratory Review (free)
Review: Fibrosis Assessment in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:37h | UTC
Review: Diet and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:34h | UTCTranslational Aspects of Diet and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Nutrients (free)
Review: Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Lean Subjects
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:35h | UTC
Mon, October 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!
16 Oct, 2017 | 01:32h | UTC
1 – The Revised Declaration of Geneva: A Modern-Day Physician’s Pledge – JAMA (free)
2 – Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report (free registration required)
Commentaries: A milestone for palliative care and pain relief – The Lancet (free registration required) AND Millions die suffering amid global opioid gap, report says – STAT (free) AND More than 25 million people dying in agony without morphine every year – The Guardian (free)
3 – Guideline: Assessing and managing children at primary health-care facilities to prevent overweight and obesity in the context of the double burden of malnutrition – World Health Organization (free) (RT @equitylist see Tweet)
News release: WHO releases guidelines to address overweight and obesity in children (free)
Related report: Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults – The Lancet (free) AND Commentaries: Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades: new study by Imperial College London and WHO – World Health Organization (free) Double-duty solutions for the double burden of malnutrition (free)
4 – Long Sleeves on Doctors’ White Coats May Spread Germs – Scientific American (free)
Related guideline: Healthcare Personnel Attire in Non-Operating-Room Settings – Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (free) AND Commentaries: Goodbye to the Doctor’s White Coat? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND New infection control recommendations could make white coats obsolete – ScienceDaily (free) AND Should Doctors Still Be Allowed to Wear White Coats? You Decide – HIV and ID Observations (free)
5 – Draft Recommendation Statement: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)
Commentary: USPSTF Draft Statement Recommends Sun-Safe Behavioral Counseling for More Fair-Skinned Youth – Physician’s First Watch (free)
6 – Blood pressure targets in people with cardiovascular disease – Cochrane Library (free)
Original Article: Procalcitonin to initiate or discontinue antibiotics in acute respiratory tract infections – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
“the use of procalcitonin to guide initiation and duration of antibiotic treatment results in lower risks of mortality, lower antibiotic consumption, and lower risk for antibiotic-related side effects”.
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter (free)
Commentary: Rapid Test for Antibiotic Susceptibility – JAMA (free)
10 – Older people with acute coronary syndromes may benefit from routine invasive therapy – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Revascularisation compared with initial medical therapy for non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes in the elderly: a meta-analysis – Heart (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Guideline for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus in adults
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:49h | UTCSee also: Executive Summary (free)
Tue, October 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!
17 Oct, 2017 | 01:34h | UTC
Commentaries: CVD Risk for Women Rises After Gestational Diabetes – TCTMD (free) AND Does Gestational Diabetes Per Se Up Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk? – Medscape (free registration required) AND Gestational Diabetes Raises Heart Attack, Stroke Risk, NIH Study Finds – AJMC (free)
2 – Association of Antidepressant Medications With Incident Type 2 Diabetes Among Medicaid-Insured Youths – JAMA Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Antidepressant Use in Youth Tied to Increased Diabetes Risk – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Related article: The risk of new-onset diabetes in antidepressant users – A systematic review and meta-analysis – PLOS One (free) AND Commentary: Type 2 Diabetes and Antidepressant Drug Use: Is There a Causal Link? – Endocrinology Advisor (free)
3 – State of The Art Review: Why and how to step down chronic asthma drugs – The BMJ (free)
News release: AASM releases position statement on home sleep apnea testing (free)
Commentaries: AASM: Position Statement on Home Sleep Apnea Testing – MPR (free) AND Sleep Medicine Academy Releases Statements on Home Apnea Testing – Physician’s First Watch (free)
5 – Sex Differences and Similarities in Atrial Fibrillation Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Mortality in Community Cohorts: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium (Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe) – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: A-fib strikes men a decade earlier than women – Medical News Today (free) And AHA: Men develop AFib a decade before women do; BMI linked to increased risk – Cardiovascular Business (free)
Commentaries: Cutting sugar in soft drinks would save 155,000 lives and $8 billion: experts – The Age (free) AND Study spells out huge health benefits by cutting back sugar in sugary drinks – University of New South Wales, Sidney (free)
7 – We may soon have our first $1 million drug. Who will pay for it? And how? – STAT (free)
Commentaries: Study: Triple-Vessel CABG Strategy Matters in the Long Run – MedPage Today (free registration required)
In patients with multivessel disease who are undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, multiple arterial grafting (MAG) is associated with reduced mortality, repeated revascularization, myocardial infarction, and heart failure when compared with left internal thoracic artery (LITA) supplemented by saphenous vein grafts (LITA+SVG).
9 – 2017 EACTS/EACTA Guidelines on patient blood management for adult cardiac surgery (free)
Commentaries: Proton pump inhibitors linked to liver disease, researchers find – The Pharmaceutical Journal (free) AND Liver disease risk may be heightened by gastric acid drugs – Medical News Today (free) AND Common acid reflux medications promote chronic liver disease – EurekAlert (free)
Fri, October 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!
13 Oct, 2017 | 02:29h | UTC
Editorial: Handle Survivors with Care (free)
Commentaries: Experimental Ebola vaccines elicit year-long immune response – NIH New Releases (free) AND Ebola Vaccines Elicit Immune Responses in Liberian Adults – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Liberia trial finds Ebola vaccines yield year-long immune response – CIDRAP (free)
2 – Roadmap for zoonotic tuberculosis – Worl Health Organization (free)
WHO News release: TB partners launch first roadmap to jointly stop the transmission of bovine and zoonotic tuberculosis (free)
3 – Increasing prevalence of vascular risk factors in patients with stroke – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Health Conditions That Increase Stroke Risk Rise Across All Ages, Races – NPR (free)
“An estimated 80% of all 1st strokes are due to risk factors that can be changed,” says new study (RT @ACCmediacenter see Tweet)
4 – Review: Management of cardiovascular diseases in patients with obesity – Nature Reviews Cardiology (free)
6 – Management of a Diabetic Foot – JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis (free) (RT @adamcifu)
Original guideline: The management of diabetic foot: A clinical practice guideline by the Society for Vascular Surgery in collaboration with the American Podiatric Medical Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine (free)
7 – We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones – TIME (free)
Related: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic (free)
“Just how dangerous are smartphones for kids? Here’s why health experts are worried”
8 – Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: September 2017 – eCancer News (free)
Commentaries: Treatment of iron deficiency is getting trendy – The Lancet Haematology (free) AND Taking Iron Every Other Day Linked to Better Absorption in Iron-Deficient Women – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Research: Relative age within the school year and diagnosis of ADHD
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:46h | UTCCommentaries: The role of schools in the diagnosis of ADHD – The Lancet Psychiatry (free) AND ‘Relative’ school age biases ADHD diagnosis – OnMedica (free) AND Youngest children in school year ‘more likely’ to get ADHD diagnosis – NHS Choices (free)
Social Determinants of Health 101 for Health Care
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:47h | UTCSocial Determinants of Health 101 for Health Care: Five Plus Five – National Academy of Medicine (free)
See also: About social determinants of health – World Health Organization (free) AND WHO’s work on SDoH (free resources)
Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Noncardiac Complications in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:48h | UTCNews release: Looking beyond the heart in adults with congenital heart disease (free)
Commentary: Think Outside the Heart: Noncardiac Complications and Considerations in the Adult Congenital Patient (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Diagnosis and Management of Noncardiac Complications in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (free PDF)
Meet the nocebo effect, the placebo effect’s evil twin that makes you feel pain
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:44h | UTCMeet the nocebo effect, the placebo effect’s evil twin that makes you feel pain – VOX (free)
Research: Association Between Biomarkers of Ovarian Reserve and Infertility Among Older Women of Reproductive Age
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:45h | UTCCommentaries: Ovarian reserve tests aren’t a good predictor of fertility, study finds – STAT (free) AND Tests Thought To Predict Future Fertility May Be Overused – Forbes (free) AND Fertility MOT tests ‘a waste of money’ – BBC News (free) AND Biomarkers Indicating Diminished Reserve of Eggs not Associated with Reduced Fertility – The JAMA Network (free)
Research: postoperative outcomes among patients treated by male vs female surgeons
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:44h | UTCEditorial: Improving patient outcomes after surgery (free)
Commentaries: Female Surgeons Hold Slight Edge Over Male Peers in Terms of Patients’ 30-Day Mortality – TCTMD (free) AND Do Patients Have Better Survival with Female Surgeons? – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Is child vaccination boosted by educating mothers?
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:43h | UTCIs child vaccination boosted by educating mothers? – BBC News (free)
Report: Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:40h | UTCOriginal article: Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults – The Lancet (free) AND Invited Commentary: Double-duty solutions for the double burden of malnutrition (free)
Related report: Ending Childhood Obesity Implementation Plan: executive summary – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Research: Insulin Pump vs Insulin Injection in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:41h | UTCAssociation of Insulin Pump Therapy vs Insulin Injection Therapy With Severe Hypoglycemia, Ketoacidosis, and Glycemic Control Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Insulin Pumps Associated With Lower Risk of Serious Complications among Young Patients with Type 1 Diabetes – The JAMA Network (free) AND Insulin-Pump Use Benefits Young People With Type 1 Diabetes – Medscape (free registration required) AND Can insulin pumps work better than injections for kids with diabetes? – Reuters (free)
Global cost of obesity-related illness to hit $1.2tn a year from 2025
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:39h | UTCGlobal cost of obesity-related illness to hit $1.2tn a year from 2025 – The Guardian (free)
See related Global Burden of Disease Study: Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years – New England Journal of Medicine (free), Editorial: Global Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity (free) AND Commentary: New study finds more than 2 billion people overweight or obese – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free)
Research: Contribution of dietary intake to relapse rate in early paediatric multiple sclerosis
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:42h | UTCContribution of dietary intake to relapse rate in early paediatric multiple sclerosis – Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry article (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Fatty diets may boost relapse risk in MS children – OnMedica (free) AND High Fat Intake Linked to Risk for MS Relapse in Kids – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Opinion: Updating Wikipedia should be part of all doctors’ jobs
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:36h | UTCUpdating Wikipedia should be part of all doctors’ jobs – STAT (free) (RT @Onisillos)
Guidelines: The do’s, don’ts and don’t knows of direct observation of clinical skills in medical education
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:37h | UTCGuidelines: The do’s, don’ts and don’t knows of direct observation of clinical skills in medical education – Perspectives on Medical Education (free) (RT @brhospitalist and @CvanderVleuten see Tweet)
Guideline: Candida auris
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:36h | UTCCandida auris Clinical Update – September 2017 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)
Commentary: CDC Updates Guidance as Candida auris Cases Grow – Medscape (free registration required)
Related: Candida auris: A rapidly emerging cause of hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant fungal infections globally – PLOS Pathogens (free) AND A ‘perfect storm’ superbug: How an invasive fungus got health officials’ attention – STAT (free) AND CDC keeping a watchful eye on Candida auris – CIDRAP (free) AND CDC reports uptick in Candida auris cases – CIDRAP (free)
Review: The Treatment of Illnesses Arising in Pregnancy
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:34h | UTCThe Treatment of Illnesses Arising in Pregnancy – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)
Meta-analysis on shift work and risks of specific obesity types
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:38h | UTCMeta-analysis on shift work and risks of specific obesity types – Obesity Reviews (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Meta-Analysis Links Night Shift to Obesity Risk, Especially “Belly Fat” – AJMC (free) AND Night Shift Work Linked To Increased Risk of Obesity – Medical Research (free) AND Shift Work Increases Risk of Apple-Shaped Overweight/Obesity – Medscape (free registration required) AND Night shift work linked to an increased risk of obesity – Wiley, via EurekAlert (free)