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Study: Daily Fasting Improves Health and Survival in Male Mice
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:44h | UTCDaily Fasting Improves Health and Survival in Male Mice Independent of Diet Composition and Calories – Cell Metabolism (link to abstract and infographic – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Fasting increases health and lifespan in male mice – NIH Research Matters (free) AND Study: Mice healthier, live longer with increased daily fasting times – UPI (free) AND Study: Daily Fasting Improves Health and Longevity in Male Mice – Sci News (free)
Study: Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payment
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:42h | UTCAssociation of Hospital Participation in a Medicare Bundled Payment Program With Volume and Case Mix of Lower Extremity Joint Replacement Episodes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Can Paying for a Health Problem as a Whole, Not Piece by Piece, Save Medicare Money? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Medicare’s Bundled Payment Program–Does it Change Hospital Volume or Case Mix? – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND One of Obamacare’s big experiments to lower costs is working surprisingly well – VOX (free)
Cohort Study: Higher Whole-Grain Intake Is Associated with Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:43h | UTCHigher Whole-Grain Intake Is Associated with Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes among Middle-Aged Men and Women: The Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Cohort – The Journal of Nutrition (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: What you need to know about claims that whole grains can prevent diabetes – Health News Review (free)
Systematic Review: Prevalence of Burnout Among Physicians
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:41h | UTCPrevalence of Burnout Among Physicians: A Systematic Review – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Doctors Today May Be Miserable, But Are They ‘Burnt Out’? – NPR (free) AND Physician burnout taking center stage – Reuters (free) AND Burnout Found to Be Common Among U.S. Resident Physicians – Psychiatric News Alert (free)
Related: Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free) AND To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Beyond Burnout — Redesigning Care to Restore Meaning and Sanity for Physicians (free) AND The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine – The Atlantic (free) AND To Combat Physician Burnout and Improve Care, Fix the Electronic Health Record (free commentaries)
Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Aspergillus Diseases
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:39h | UTCRelated: Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Aspergillosis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: Implementing Optimal Team-Based Care to Reduce Clinician Burnout
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:40h | UTCImplementing Optimal Team-Based Care to Reduce Clinician Burnout – National Academy of Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Optimal team-based health care is associated with improved patient outcomes and physician well-being – ACP Newsroom (free) AND New Review Shows Team-Based Care May Reduce Physician Burnout – Medscape (free registration required)
Zackary Berger’s Journal Reviews – 17 September 2018
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:37h | UTCZackary Berger’s journal reviews, 17 September 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
Viewpoint: Probiotic Safety—No Guarantees
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:38h | UTCProbiotic Safety—No Guarantees – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Related: Probiotics: Does the Evidence Match the Hype? (free articles and commentaries) AND Systematic Review: Harms Reporting in Trials with Probiotics (link to abstract and commentaries)
Opinion: Medicine’s Financial Contamination
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:37h | UTCMedicine’s Financial Contamination – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Study: Infant Walker–Related Injuries Still Sending Children to the ED
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:29h | UTCInfant Walker–Related Injuries in the United States – Pediatrics (free)
News Release: Study: Infant walker injuries support AAP’s call for a ban (free)
Commentaries: As Injuries Continue, Doctors Renew Call For Ban On Infant Walkers – NPR (free) AND Injuries associated with infant walkers still sending children to the emergency department – Nationwide Children’s Hospital (free)
Policy Statement: Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:28h | UTCNews release: AAP Policy Statement Urges Support and Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents (free) AND New Guidance for Care of Transgender Children, Teenagers – Medscape (free registration required)
Meta-Analysis: Treatments of Primary Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Skin
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:26h | UTC
Let’s Stop the Burning and the Bleeding at Cochrane—There’s Too Much at Stake
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:27h | UTCRelated: Evidence-based medicine group in turmoil after expulsion of co-founder – Science (free) AND Trish Greenhalgh: The Cochrane Collaboration—what crisis? – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Cochrane – A sinking ship? – BMJ EBM Spotlight (free) AND Turmoil erupts over expulsion of member from leading evidence-based medicine group – STAT (free)
See also: Statement from Cochrane’s Governing Board (free)
Randomized Trial: Effect of Aspirin on All-Cause Mortality in the Healthy Elderly
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:25h | UTCEffect of Aspirin on All-Cause Mortality in the Healthy Elderly – New England Journal of Medicine (free) (via @EricTopol)
Related Studies: Effect of Aspirin on Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding in the Healthy Elderly – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Effect of Aspirin on Disability-free Survival in the Healthy Elderly – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people- NIH News Releases (free) AND Low-Dose Aspirin Late in Life? Healthy People May Not Need It – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Study: Development of a New Classification System for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:26h | UTCDevelopment of a New Classification System for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies Based on Clinical Manifestations and Myositis-Specific Autoantibodies – JAMA Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: New Classification of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies – RheumNow (free)
Review: Optimizing Medications in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:23h | UTC
Report: WHO Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy 2018-2025
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:24h | UTCWHO water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018-2025 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Viewpoint: Antibiotics for Sepsis—Finding the Equilibrium
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:22h | UTCAntibiotics for Sepsis—Finding the Equilibrium – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Shared Decision-Making: Staying Focused on the Ultimate Goal
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:21h | UTCShared Decision-Making: Staying Focused on the Ultimate Goal – NEJM Catalyst (free)
Opinion: Can Health Services Handle the Apple Watch?
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:20h | UTCCan health services handle the Apple Watch? – BBC (free)
Related: The New Apple Watch 4: Cardiac Accuracy Unknown, “Game-Changing” Benefits Overblown – The Skeptical Cardiologist (free) AND The New ECG Apple Watch Could do More Harm Than Good – Wired (a few articles per month are free)
See also: New Watch can Help Doctors Monitor your Heart in Real Time (free commentaries)
Ig Nobel Win for Kidney Stone Removing Roller-coaster
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:21h | UTCIg Nobel win for kidney stone removing roller-coaster – BBC (free)
Related: Ig Nobel prizes honor do-it-yourself colonoscopies, a curious use for postage stamps, and other peculiar research – Science (free)
Patients vs. Paywalls: Is the U.S. Ready for Open-access Publishing?
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:19h | UTCPatients vs. paywalls: Is the U.S. ready for open-access publishing? – STAT (free)
Related: Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free – The Guardian (free) AND cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)
Study: Are Elderly Patients with Prostate Cancer Patients Being Overtreated?
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:17h | UTCTotal Medicare Costs Associated With Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer in Elderly Men – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Are Older Prostate Cancer Patients Overtreated? – MedPage Today (free registration required)
CDC Report: Prevalence of Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Adults
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:18h | UTCCommentaries: Chronic Pain Affects 20% of Americans, CDC Reports – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND CDC: About 1 in 5 US Adults Have Chronic Pain – MPR (free) AND One-fifth of American adults experience chronic pain, CDC estimates – CNBC (free)
Thu, September 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!
20 Sep, 2018 | 00:23h | UTC
News Release: Discomfort or death? New study maps hot spots of child mortality from diarrhea across Africa – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free)
Quick Take Video Summary: Variation in Childhood Diarrheal Morbidity and Mortality in Africa (free)
2 – Refractory septic shock: our pragmatic approach – Critical Care (free)
Commentaries: Study: Hospitals may overprescribe blood pressure meds – UPI (free) AND Veterans overtreated for blood pressure on leaving hospital – MedicalXpress (free) AND Antihypertensive treatment intensified at discharge regardless of outpatient blood pressure history – ACP Hospitalist (free)
4 – Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy – Science (free) (via @Onisillos)
5 – Oral Fluoroquinolone and the Risk of Aortic Dissection – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: The Fluoroquinolone/Aortic Dissection Association – Emergency Medicine Literature of Note (free)
Related observational studies with similar conclusions: Fluoroquinolone use and risk of aortic aneurysm and dissection (free articles)
6 – Deep learning for classifying fibrotic lung disease on high-resolution computed tomography: a case-cohort study – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Related Audio: Deep learning and fibrotic lung disease (free)
Commentary: Machine Tops Humans in Fibrotic Lung Disease Classification – Medical Health News (free)
Commentary: Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer – The ASCO Post (free)
Source: EvidenceAlerts
Commentaries: Air pollution linked to dementia risk – NHS Choices (free) AND Expert reaction to air pollution and risk of dementia – Science Media Centre (free) AND Air pollution may be linked to heightened dementia risk – OnMedica (free) AND Is air pollution tied to higher dementia risk? – CNN (free)
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at nutritional quality of food and risk of cancer – Science Media Centre (free) AND Foods with low nutritional quality tied to higher cancer risk – Medical News Today (free)
10 – Association of Medical Scribes in Primary Care With Physician Workflow and Patient Experience – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Use of Medical Scribes to Reduce Documentation Burden: Are They Where We Need to Go With Clinical Documentation? – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Scribes improve physician workflow, patient interaction – MedicalXpress (free) AND Scribes ease physician administrative burden and boost patient experience, JAMA study says – Healthcare Finance (free)