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Mon, September 11 – 10 Stories of The Day!
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:37h | UTC
1 – Coursera – Free Online Health & Medicine Courses Starting Today!
– Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease – University of Sidney
– Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety – The George Washington University
– Introduction to the Biology of Cancer – Johns Hopkins University
– Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics – University of Cape Town
– Health Across the Gender Spectrum – Stanford University
– Public Health in Humanitarian Crises – Johns Hopkins University
– Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach – Johns Hopkins University
– Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
– Health Care IT: Challenges and Opportunities – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
– The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health – Johns Hopkins University
– The Science of Health Care Delivery – Arizona State University
– PrEParing: PrEP for Providers and Patients – Johns Hopkins University
News release: Experts aim to improve treatment for heart complications in people with neuromuscular disorders (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases (free PDF)
Commentary: Statement on the Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases – Practice Update (free registration required)
3 – Comprehensive primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women – Clinical Cardiology (free)
4 – Opinion: Cardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health – Cardiobrief (free)
5 – 11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing – Medscape Slideshow (free registration required)
Related: Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN) (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free) AND Deprescribing guidelines for the elderly – Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (free) AND Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND Patient often prescribed potentially futile drugs in their final months of life – Science Daily AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
6 – Educating Girls, Ending Child Marriage – World Bank (free)
Related infographic and report: Putting a Price Tag on Child Marriage
“By keeping girls in school, girls would have a better chance for safety and security, to health and education, and to make their own life choices and decisions”.
“Being born to a mother younger than 18 increases the risk dying by the age of 5” (RT @WBG_Health see Tweet)
7 – Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment – Pediatrics (free)
News Release: Balancing act: Weighing the decision to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment (free)
8 – Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Palliative Care Intervention Improves Quality of Life in Advanced Heart Failure Patients – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Palliative Care & CHF: PAL-HF trial – Pallimed (free)
9 – Development and risk factors of type 2 diabetes in a nationwide population of women with polycystic ovary syndrome – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Type 2 diabetes risk four times higher in women with PCOS – Medical News Today (free) AND Researchers reveal link between PCOS, type 2 diabetes – The Endocrine Society, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentaries: Hypertension Medication Adherence May Be Improved by Collaborate Communication – Cardiology Advisor (free) AND Better Provider Communication Might Improve Medication Adherence – Medscape (free registration required) AND Talk Why, Not What for Better Antihypertensive Adherence – MedPage Today (free)
“Odds of poor med adherence 6x greater when patient-provider interactions don’t address patients’ unmet social needs” (RT @CircOutcomes see Tweet)
Free Online Course: The Science of Health Care Delivery
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:59h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: The Science of Health Care Delivery – Arizona State University and Coursera
Guideline: Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:30h | UTCNews release: Experts aim to improve treatment for heart complications in people with neuromuscular disorders (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases (free PDF)
Commentary: Statement on the Management of Cardiac Involvement Associated With Neuromuscular Diseases – Practice Update (free registration required)
Free Online Course: PrEP for Providers and Patients
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:58h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: PrEParing: PrEP for Providers and Patients – Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:24h | UTC11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing – Medscape Slideshow (free registration required)
Related: Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN) (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free) AND Deprescribing guidelines for the elderly – Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (free) AND Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND Patient often prescribed potentially futile drugs in their final months of life – Science Daily AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
Review: Comprehensive primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:29h | UTCComprehensive primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women – Clinical Cardiology (free)
Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment in Children
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:22h | UTC7 – Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment – Pediatrics (free)
News Release: Balancing act: Weighing the decision to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment (free)
Opinion: Cardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:25h | UTCCardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health – Cardiobrief (free)
RCT: Palliative Care in Heart Failure
10 Sep, 2017 | 02:00h | UTCPalliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Palliative Care Intervention Improves Quality of Life in Advanced Heart Failure Patients – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Palliative Care & CHF: PAL-HF trial – Pallimed (free)
Guideline: Defining Optimal Brain Health in Adults
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:36h | UTCSee also: Advisory Highlights: Seven steps to keep your brain healthy from childhood to old age (free) AND News release: As brain problems increase, experts offer advice to keep yours healthy (free) AND Commentary: Optimal Cardiovascular Health and a Healthy Brain (free) AND Top Ten Things to Know: Defining Optimal Brain Health in Adults (free PDF)
Commentary: Heart and Stroke Groups Issue Advisory on Optimal Brain Health – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Medication Adherence in Hypertension: The Role of Patient–Provider Communication
11 Sep, 2017 | 00:21h | UTCEditorial: Talking With Patients Is Better Than Talking to Patients (free)
Commentaries: Hypertension Medication Adherence May Be Improved by Collaborate Communication – Cardiology Advisor (free) AND Better Provider Communication Might Improve Medication Adherence – Medscape (free registration required) AND Talk Why, Not What for Better Antihypertensive Adherence – MedPage Today (free)
“Odds of poor med adherence 6x greater when patient-provider interactions don’t address patients’ unmet social needs” (RT @CircOutcomes see Tweet)
Report: Everybody active, every day: an evidence-based approach to physical activity
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:35h | UTCEverybody active, every day: an evidence-based approach to physical activity – Public Health England (free report and other documents)
See also: 10 minutes brisk walking each day in mid-life for health benefits and towards achieving physical activity recommendations: evidence summary (free PDF)
Press release: 6 million adults do not do a monthly brisk 10-minute walk (free)
Commentaries: 10-minute walk a day app to tackle ‘inactivity epidemic’ – NHS Choices (free) AND 6 million middle-aged people take no exercise – The Guardian (free)
Report: Size matters: The impact of upselling on weight gain
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:34h | UTCSee also: Press release (free)
Commentaries: Supersize us: upselling is fuelling the obesity epidemic, warns report – The Guardian (free) AND Going Large – Is Upselling Making You Gain Weight? – Medscape (free registration required)
Review: Sepsis with Comorbidities: Management Strategies
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:40h | UTCSepsis with Comorbidities: Management Strategies – emDocs (free)
Study: Safety and Feasibility of Antiretroviral Preexposure Prophylaxis for Adolescent Men Who Have Sex With Men
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:30h | UTCEditorial: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Preexposure Prophylaxis for Adolescent Men (free)
Commentaries: Safety, Feasibility of PrEP for Adolescent Men Who Have Sex With Men – The JAMA Network (free) AND PrEP safe and effective for young men who have sex with men – OnMedica (free) AND HIV PrEP for adolescent men found to be safe, effective – UPI (free)
Cohort Studies: Extreme high HDL cholesterol is paradoxically associated with high mortality
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:33h | UTCCommentaries: High levels of ‘good’ cholesterol linked to excessive mortality – University of Copenhagen, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Does ‘good cholesterol’ really deserve its name? – The Conversation (free) AND Can Your “Good” Cholesteral Be To High? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Study: Antipsychotic Use With and Without Comorbid Psychiatric Diagnosis Among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:31h | UTCAntipsychotic Use With and Without Comorbid Psychiatric Diagnosis Among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities – The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Antipsychotics common for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (free) AND Antipsychotics Overused in Intellectually Disabled Adults – Medscape (free registration required)
“Antipsychotics are used inappropriately particularly in vulnerable groups: Poor children; Intellectually challenged; Autistic; Nursing homes. (RT @AllenFrancesMD see Tweet)
Opinion: IBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a revolution in cancer care. It’s nowhere close
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:27h | UTCIBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a revolution in cancer care. It’s nowhere close – STAT (free)
Chronic Health Conditions and Key Health Indicators Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:28h | UTCChronic Health Conditions and Key Health Indicators Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older US Adults, 2013–2014 – American Journal of Public Health (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Older Adults Suffer More Chronic Health Conditions Than Heterosexuals, Study Finds – The University of Washington, via NewsWise (free) AND LGB Older Adults Suffer More Chronic Health Conditions Than Heterosexuals, Study Finds – Science Magazine (free)
Commentary: Potential Implications of NORSTENT (Norwegian Coronary Stent Trial) in Contemporary Practice
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:29h | UTCOriginal article: Drug-Eluting or Bare-Metal Stents for Coronary Artery Disease – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
In this large trial, differences in outcomes between bare metal stents (BMS) and drug eluding stents (DES) were small. During 6 years of follow-up there was a 3.3% absolute risk reduction in any repeat revascularization with DES, without differences in cardiovascular mortality or death.
Should Euthanasia Be Considered Iatrogenic?
9 Sep, 2017 | 22:45h | UTCShould Euthanasia Be Considered Iatrogenic? – AMA Journal of Ethics (free)
Study: Postoperative stereotactic radiosurgery compared with whole brain radiotherapy for resected metastatic brain disease
9 Sep, 2017 | 23:16h | UTCPostoperative stereotactic radiosurgery compared with whole brain radiotherapy for resected metastatic brain disease (NCCTG N107C/CEC·3): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial – The Lancet Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Stereotactic Radiosurgery Achieves Better Quality of Life and Improved Cognition Than Whole-Brain Radiotherapy – ASCO Post (free)
Review: Multiple Myeloma Emergencies
9 Sep, 2017 | 22:43h | UTCMultiple Myeloma Emergencies – emDocs (free)
Meta-analysis: Effectiveness of Apneic Oxygenation During Intubation
9 Sep, 2017 | 22:54h | UTCRelated meta-analysis: Apneic oxygenation during intubation in the emergency department and during retrieval: A systematic review and meta-analysis – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Meta-analysis Apneic oxygenation reduces the incidence of hypoxemia during emergency intubation: A systematic review and meta-analysis – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full text)
Source: ACP Journal Wise ($)
Review: Molecular Targeted Drugs and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer
9 Sep, 2017 | 22:08h | UTCCommentary: Review highlights significant progress in developing new biologic drugs to treat colorectal cancer – News Medical (free)