Thu September 5 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Report: Essential Nutrition Actions: mainstreaming nutrition throughout the life course – World Health Organization (free PDF)

News Release: Stronger focus on nutrition within health services could save 3.7 million lives by 2025 – World Health Organization (free)

Commentaries: Healthier Diets Key To Reducing Obesity And NCDs: Says New WHO Report – Health Policy Watch (free) AND 3.7 million lives could be saved by 2025 if health services ramp up nutrition actions: WHO – UN News (free)

2 – Association of Exposure to Diagnostic Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation With Risk of Cancer Among Youths in South Korea – JAMA Network Open (free)

3 – N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Personnel: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Respiratory Protection of Health Care Personnel to Prevent Respiratory Viral Transmission (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Outpatient study finds masks, respirators equally protective – CIDRAP (free) AND Surgical masks as good as respirators for flu and respiratory virus protection – UT Southwestern Medical Center (free)

4 – Budesonide-formoterol reliever therapy versus maintenance budesonide plus terbutaline reliever therapy in adults with mild to moderate asthma (PRACTICAL): a 52-week, open-label, multicentre, superiority, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Quick Take: Budesonide-formoterol reliever therapy versus maintenance budesonide plus terbutaline reliever therapy in adults with mild to moderate asthma (PRACTICAL) – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

5 – Comparative Effectiveness of Analgesics To Reduce Acute Pain in the Prehospital Setting – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (free)

See also: Full Report (free PDF) AND Evidence Summary (free PDF) AND Journal Citation in Prehospital Emergency Care (free)

6 – Vaping appears to be making hundreds of people sick. No one knows exactly why. – Vox (free)

Related: CDC Flags One Death and Nearly 200 Cases of Lung Illnesses in U.S., Possibly Tied to Vaping (free) AND Another Patient Has Died From Lung Disease After Vaping – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

7 – Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns – The Conversation (free)

Related: Artificial Intelligence Is Infiltrating Medicine — But Is It Ethical? – Forbes (free) AND Artificial Intelligence in Health Care – AMA Journal of Ethics (free articles)

8 – Pharmacological interventions for the treatment of delirium in critically ill adults – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Medicines to treat delirium in critically ill adult patients – Cochrane Library (free)

Related Systematic Reviews: Antipsychotics for Treating Delirium in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review – Annals of Internal Medicine (free) AND Antipsychotics for Preventing Delirium in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

9 – Use of Endocrine Therapy for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction: ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Update – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

Related: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Medication Use to Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer (free)

10 – Association of Genetic Variants Related to Combined Exposure to Lower Low-Density Lipoproteins and Lower Systolic Blood Pressure With Lifetime Risk of Cardiovascular Disease – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Sustained drop in cholesterol and blood pressure reduces lifetime risk of heart, circulatory diseases – News Medical (free)