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Update in Neurocritical Care
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:25h | UTC
Wed April 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:40h | UTC
3 – NICE Guideline: Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
4 – Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Employer Wellness Programs—A Work in Progress (free)
Commentaries: Workplace wellness programs may help people change certain behaviors but do little to improve overall health or lower spending, study shows – Harvard Medical School (free) AND How Well Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? – NPR (free) AND Harvard Study On Workplace Wellness: Behaviors Change But Health Does Not — So Far – CommonHealth (free) AND Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows – The New York Times (free)
Related: Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise (free)
Commentary: Mid-life resting heart rate of 75 plus beats/minute linked to doubling in early death risk – BMJ (free)
Commentaries: A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) AND First-year doctors spend almost 90% of their time away from patients – University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine (free) AND First-year trainee doctors spend little time on patient care – Reuters (free) AND Medical Interns Spend 87 percent of Their Work Time Away From Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Commentaries: Additional routine ultrasounds benefit mothers and babies, and could be cost saving, study finds – PLOS (free) AND Expert reaction to study on additional routine ultrasounds – Science Media Centre (free)
8 – Management of transient ischemic attack or nondisabling stroke related to extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: FDA: Companies Must Stop Selling Vaginal Meshes for Pelvic Organ Prolapse – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND F.D.A. Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND US halts sales of pelvic mesh tied to injuries in women – Associated Press (free)
Related: Mesh Implants for Women: Scandal or Standard of Care? – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Population versus individual protection by pneumococcal conjugate vaccination – The Lancet (free) AND PCV10 pneumococcal vaccine has big impact in Kenya, even among unvaccinated individuals – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (free)
Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from Current Literature
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:24h | UTC
NICE Guideline: Ectopic Pregnancy and Miscarriage
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:22h | UTC
Randomized Trial: Workplace Wellness Programs do Little to Improve Overall Health or Lower Spending
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:17h | UTCEffect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Employer Wellness Programs—A Work in Progress (free)
Commentaries: Workplace wellness programs may help people change certain behaviors but do little to improve overall health or lower spending, study shows – Harvard Medical School (free) AND How Well Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? – NPR (free) AND Harvard Study On Workplace Wellness: Behaviors Change But Health Does Not — So Far – CommonHealth (free) AND Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows – The New York Times (free)
Related: Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise (free)
Study: First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Spend Only 13% of Their Time on Direct Patient Care
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:05h | UTCCommentaries: A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) AND First-year doctors spend almost 90% of their time away from patients – University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine (free) AND First-year trainee doctors spend little time on patient care – Reuters (free) AND Medical Interns Spend 87 percent of Their Work Time Away From Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)
FDA Orders Manufacturers of Surgical Mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse to Stop Selling all Devices
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:50h | UTCCommentaries: FDA: Companies Must Stop Selling Vaginal Meshes for Pelvic Organ Prolapse – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND F.D.A. Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND US halts sales of pelvic mesh tied to injuries in women – Associated Press (free)
Related: Mesh Implants for Women: Scandal or Standard of Care? – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Cohort Study: Mid-life Resting Heart Rate Over 75 Beats per Minute Linked to High Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:15h | UTCCommentary: Mid-life resting heart rate of 75 plus beats/minute linked to doubling in early death risk – BMJ (free)
Study: Screening for Breech Presentation Using Universal Late-pregnancy Ultrasonography
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:55h | UTCCommentaries: Additional routine ultrasounds benefit mothers and babies, and could be cost saving, study finds – PLOS (free) AND Expert reaction to study on additional routine ultrasounds – Science Media Centre (free)
Longitudinal Surveillance Study: Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:48h | UTCCommentaries: Population versus individual protection by pneumococcal conjugate vaccination – The Lancet (free) AND PCV10 pneumococcal vaccine has big impact in Kenya, even among unvaccinated individuals – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Introduction of 10-valent #pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Kenya, accompanied by a catch-up campaign, substantially reduced invasive pneumococcal disease in children & adults without significant replacement disease: a longitudinal surveillance study https://t.co/pOm7kR2JbQ pic.twitter.com/E1wt2p1waE
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) April 15, 2019
Management of Transient Ischemic Attack or Nondisabling Stroke Related to Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:53h | UTCManagement of transient ischemic attack or nondisabling stroke related to extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)
Tue April 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:56h | UTC
1 – Measles cases are up nearly 300% from last year. This is a global crisis – CNN (free)
WHO Statement: New measles surveillance data for 2019 – World Health Organization (free)
By Henrietta H Fore (executive director of UNICEF) and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (director general of the World Health Organization).
2 – Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Canagliflozin may offer renal protection in people with type 2 diabetes and CKD – Medicine Matters (free)
“among 1000 patients treated for 2.5 years, 21.2 individuals would need to be treated to prevent the composite primary outcome.” (from Medicine Matters)
Commentaries: Statins safe for rheumatoid arthritis patients – University of Dundee (free) AND Statins safe for preventing cardiovascular events in rheumatoid arthritis patients, study suggests – Wiley (free)
Commentaries: FDA added sugar label could be a cost-effective way to improve health, generate savings – Tufts University (free) AND New Added Sugar Labeling Could Cut CVD, Spur $31 Billion in Healthcare Savings – TCTMD (free) AND Study: Sugar-added labels could prevent 600,000 diabetes cases – UPI (free) AND New ‘added sugars’ labeling could save money and improve health – Reuters (free)
5 – Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 15 April 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
6 – Prevalence and Nondisclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Patients With Cancer and Cancer Survivors in the United States – JAMA Oncology (free for a limited period)
Commentary: One-third of cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicine – UT Southwestern Medical Center (free) AND How Many Cancer Patients Use Complementary or Alternative Medicine Treatments? – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Many cancer patients take alternative meds but don’t tell doctors – UPI (free)
Related: Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival (free study and commentaries)
7 – Natural History of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection With Spontaneous Angiographic Healing – JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Majority of SCAD Lesions Heal With Conservative Treatment – TCTMD (free) AND Spontaneous Angiographic Healing With SCAD – American College of Cardiology (free) AND SCAD: Spontaneous Healing Common With Conservative Treatment – Medscape (free registration required)
9 – Acute Renal Failure of Nosocomial Origin – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)
Commentary: Maternal gestational diabetes linked to diabetes in children – CMAJ (free)
Randomized Trial: SGLT2 inhibitor Reduces Progression of Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:52h | UTCCanagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Canagliflozin may offer renal protection in people with type 2 diabetes and CKD – Medicine Matters (free)
“among 1000 patients treated for 2.5 years, 21.2 individuals would need to be treated to prevent the composite primary outcome.” (from Medicine Matters)
Measles Cases are up Nearly 300% From Last Year. This is a Global Crisis
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:54h | UTCMeasles cases are up nearly 300% from last year. This is a global crisis – CNN (free)
WHO Statement: New measles surveillance data for 2019 – World Health Organization (free)
By Henrietta H Fore (executive director of UNICEF) and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (director general of the World Health Organization).
Randomized Trial: Statins Safe and Effective for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:50h | UTCCommentaries: Statins safe for rheumatoid arthritis patients – University of Dundee (free) AND Statins safe for preventing cardiovascular events in rheumatoid arthritis patients, study suggests – Wiley (free)
Alex Nowbar’s Research Reviews – 15 April 2019
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:31h | UTCAlex Nowbar’s research reviews, 15 April 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Study: One-third of Cancer Patients Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:26h | UTCPrevalence and Nondisclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Patients With Cancer and Cancer Survivors in the United States – JAMA Oncology (free for a limited period)
Commentary: One-third of cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicine – UT Southwestern Medical Center (free) AND How Many Cancer Patients Use Complementary or Alternative Medicine Treatments? – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Many cancer patients take alternative meds but don’t tell doctors – UPI (free)
Related: Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival (free study and commentaries)
Added Sugar Labeling Policy for Improving Diet Could Be a Cost-effective Way to Improve Health and Generate Savings
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:45h | UTCCommentaries: FDA added sugar label could be a cost-effective way to improve health, generate savings – Tufts University (free) AND New Added Sugar Labeling Could Cut CVD, Spur $31 Billion in Healthcare Savings – TCTMD (free) AND Study: Sugar-added labels could prevent 600,000 diabetes cases – UPI (free) AND New ‘added sugars’ labeling could save money and improve health – Reuters (free)
Study: Natural History of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:14h | UTCNatural History of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection With Spontaneous Angiographic Healing – JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Majority of SCAD Lesions Heal With Conservative Treatment – TCTMD (free) AND Spontaneous Angiographic Healing With SCAD – American College of Cardiology (free) AND SCAD: Spontaneous Healing Common With Conservative Treatment – Medscape (free registration required)
Review: Acute Renal Failure of Nosocomial Origin
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:07h | UTCAcute Renal Failure of Nosocomial Origin – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)
Cohort Study: Gestational Diabetes Associated with Incident Diabetes in Childhood and Youth
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:03h | UTCCommentary: Maternal gestational diabetes linked to diabetes in children – CMAJ (free)
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: An Often Unrecognized Cause of Acute Coronary Syndrome
16 Apr, 2019 | 02:09h | UTC
UK National Consensus: Surfactant Replacement Therapy for Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Preterm Infants
15 Apr, 2019 | 02:22h | UTC
Special Issue: Spine Surgery and Disc Herniation
15 Apr, 2019 | 02:25h | UTCSpine Surgery and Disc Herniation – International Orthopaedics (selected free review articles from the supplement)
– Homepage
– Editorial: Disc herniation and disc disease: the present and the future of management
– Cervical disc herniation: which surgery?
– Evidence-based use of arthroplasty in cervical degenerative disc disease
– Cervical disc arthroplasty: tips and tricks
– Post-operative nerve injuries after cervical spine surgery
– Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in the cervical spine: a review
– Surgical treatment of thoracic disc herniation: an overview
– Thoracic disc herniation, avoidance, and management of the surgical complications
– Intervertebral disc herniation in elite athletes
– Current concepts for lumbar disc herniation
– Lumbar disc herniation: what has the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial taught us?
– The relevance of high-intensity zones in degenerative disc disease
– Endoscopic spine discectomy: indications and outcomes
– Factors that influence neurological deficit and recovery in lumbar disc prolapse—a narrative review
– Cauda equina syndrome—the questions
– The evidence-based approach for surgical complications in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation
– Failure of lumbar disc surgery: management by fusion or arthroplasty?
– Adjacent segment degeneration after fusion spinal surgery—a systematic review
– The future of disc surgery and regeneration
– Clinical trials of intervertebral disc regeneration: current status and future developments
– Cell therapy for intervertebral disc herniation and degenerative disc disease: clinical trials
– Autogenic mesenchymal stem cells for intervertebral disc regeneration
Guidelines for the Management of Stevens‐Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in Children and Young People
15 Apr, 2019 | 02:21h | UTC