Thu, Oct 13 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

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1 – Updated Blood Transfusion Guidelines Back a Conservative Approach – Physician’s First Watch

2 – Clinical Practice Guidelines From the AABB – Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds and Storage – JAMA

3 – AABB Red Blood Cell Transfusion Guidelines – JAMA

4 – Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier – Our World in Data

5 – Dabigatran vs. Rivaroxaban for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation – Journal of The American College of Cardiology

6 – Zika Virus 6 Months Later – JAMA

7 – The Next Zika – Scientific American

8 – Screening Mammography: Overdiagnosis More Common Than Early Detection – Physician’s First Watch

9 – Breast-Cancer Tumor Size, Overdiagnosis, and Mammography Screening Effectiveness – NEJM (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

10 – The value of blood lactate kinetics in critically ill patients: a systematic review – Critical Care