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Cohort Study: Risk Factors, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:26h | UTCRisk Factors, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: In Type 2 Diabetes, Five Risk Factor Targets Keep MI, Stroke, and Death in Check – TCTMD (free) AND How People With Type 2 Diabetes Can Lower Their Risk of Health Problems – TIME (free) AND T2D, Without Other Risks, Not Tied to Excess Mortality – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Cohort Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism in Offspring
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:27h | UTCAssociation of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism in Offspring From a National Birth Cohort – The American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Autism and DDT: What one million pregnancies can — and can’t — reveal – Nature News (free) AND Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses – Science 2.0 (free – skeptical point of view on study results)
Meta-Analysis: Absolute Risk and Predictors of the Growth of Acute Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:25h | UTCCommentary: Brain scan checklist set to boost care for stroke survivors – University of Edinburgh, via EurekAlert (free)
Editorial: Making Diagnostic Tests as Essential as Medicines
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:22h | UTCMaking diagnostic tests as essential as medicines – BMJ Global Health (free)
Related: Report: First-ever WHO List of Essential Diagnostic Tests (free report and news release) AND The WHO Essential Diagnostic List: A Tool for the Future (free commentaries)
Study: Trends in Use of Daily Chest Radiographs Among Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:23h | UTCCommentaries: Daily Chest X-Rays Still Overused in Mechanically Ventilated Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Routine daily CXRs for ventilated patients: de-adoption is lagging – Univadis (free registration required) AND Chest x-rays overused on ventilation patients despite ACR guideline – HealthImaging (free)
Perspective: How Unpaywall is Transforming Open Science
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:21h | UTCHow Unpaywall is transforming open science – Nature News (free)
Related: Unlocking paywalled research papers (legally) (free commentaries) AND Half of papers searched for online are free to read (free)
We have been using the Unpaywall Extension for a while, and it is indeed a handy tool to find free versions (entirely legal) of paywalled articles.
International Registry: Long-Term Prognosis of Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:19h | UTCLong-Term Prognosis of Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Long-Term Prognosis of Takotsubo Syndrome – American College of Cardiology (free) AND How deadly is Takotsubo syndrome? It depends on the trigger – Cardiovascular Business (free)
Related: International Expert Consensus Document on Takotsubo Syndrome (free)
Perspective: Medical Students are Skipping Class in Droves — And Making Lectures Increasingly Obsolete
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:19h | UTCPerspective: Medical students are skipping class in droves — and making lectures increasingly obsolete – STAT (free)
Disease Outbreak News: Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:16h | UTCRelated: WHO chief calls for end to fighting in Congo to halt Ebola spread – The Guardian (free) AND Ebola cases mounting in DRC as region prepares for more – CIDRAP (free) AND Ebola outbreak shaping up as most dangerous test of world’s ability to respond since global crisis – STAT (free)
Study: Polygenic Scores for Common Diseases Identify Individuals with Risk Equivalent to Monogenic Mutations
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:09h | UTCGenome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations – Nature Genetics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, ScienceDaily (free) AND Clues to Your Health Are Hidden at 6.6 Million Spots in Your DNA – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Multi-gene test may find risk for heart disease and more – Associated Press (free) AND A Harvard Scientist Thinks He Has a Gene Test for Heart Attack Risk. He Wants to Give It Away Free – Forbes (free)
Retrospective Cohort: Association Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Suicide
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:14h | UTCAssociation Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Suicide – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Traumatic brain injury tied to increased risk of suicide – Reuters (free) AND Risk of Suicide Increases After TBI, Study Finds – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Expert reaction to traumatic brain injury and suicide – Science Media Centre (free)
Review: Overdiagnosis in Primary Care
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:10h | UTCState of the Art Review: Overdiagnosis in primary care: framing the problem and finding solutions – The BMJ (free for two weeks)
Guideline: Cancer in People Living with HIV
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:04h | UTC
Research: Treatments for First-Episode Schizophrenia Compared
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:13h | UTCAmisulpride and olanzapine followed by open-label treatment with clozapine in first-episode schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder (OPTiMiSE): a three-phase switching study – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Switching Anti-Psychotic Medications Doesn’t Improve Outcomes in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients – Mount Sinai (free) AND No Benefit of Switching Antipsychotics in Early Schizophrenia – Medscape (free registration required) AND No Gain with Antipsych Meds Switch in Schizophrenia – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Randomized Trial: Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:06h | UTCFixed Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypertension in Sri Lanka: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Video Summary: Fixed-Dose Combination Pill for Hypertension Treatment in Sri Lanka (free)
Commentaries: Three-in-one pill lowers blood pressure significantly, study says – UPI (free) AND Innovative triple pill significantly lowers blood pressure, study finds – George Institute for Global Health, via EurekAlert (free)
Perspective: The Polypill and the Long Journey to Major Impact
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:05h | UTCRichard Smith: The polypill and the long journey to major impact – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Related Reviews: Strengths and Limitations of Using the Polypill in Cardiovascular Prevention – Current Cardiology Reports (free) AND The polypill approach – An innovative strategy to improve cardiovascular health in Europe – BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology (free)
Perspective: 5 Steps to Unpack a Randomized Trial
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:03h | UTCYoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101 – Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)
“5 steps to unpack a randomized trial!” (via @hildabast, see Tweet)
Lessons for Physicians from ‘The Bleeding Edge’: If You See Something, Say Something
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:04h | UTCOpinion: Lessons for physicians from ‘The Bleeding Edge’: If you see something, say something – STAT (free)
“…physicians must act decisively when they identify the rare outlier in their midst. To do anything less would risk our credibility. Worse still, it could risk the lives of the people we took an oath not to harm.”
Ebola Outbreak News: DRC Ebola Cases Surpass Earlier Outbreak Total, Virus Infects 4 More Health Workers
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:02h | UTCDRC Ebola cases surpass earlier outbreak total, virus infects 4 more health workers – CIDRAP (free)
Related: DRC may provide model for containing future Ebola outbreaks – The Conversation (free)
Book: Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition – National Institutes of Health
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:01h | UTCDiabetes in America, 3rd Edition – National Institutes of Health (free chapters)
News Release: New NIH reference book is one-stop resource for diabetes medical information – National Institutes of Health (free)
Systematic Reviews: Treatments for Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:00h | UTCTreatments for women with gestational diabetes mellitus: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews – Cochrane Library (free)
Study: Automated Deep-Neural-Network Surveillance of Cranial Images for Acute Neurologic Events
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:58h | UTCAutomated deep-neural-network surveillance of cranial images for acute neurologic events – Nature Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Artificial Intelligence Platform Screens for Acute Neurological Illnesses at Mount Sinai – Mount Sinai Health System, via NewsWise (free) AND AI diagnoses neurological diseases on CT in 1.2 seconds – Health Imaging (free) AND New AI system can screen for neurological illnesses in seconds – UPI (free)
Study: Clinically Applicable Deep Learning for Diagnosis and Referral in Retinal Disease
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:59h | UTCClinically applicable deep learning for diagnosis and referral in retinal disease – Nature Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Opening the ‘black box,’ Google DeepMind AI system diagnoses eye diseases and shows its work – STAT (free) AND Artificial intelligence tool ‘as good as experts’ at detecting eye problems – The Guardian (free)
Guideline: Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases in Hematology and Oncology
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:50h | UTC
Guideline: Screening for Urinary Incontinence in Women
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:52h | UTCCommentaries: WPSI says screen all women annually for urinary incontinence – American College of Physicians, via EurekAlert (free)