Tue April 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Managing and Preventing Vascular Catheter Infections ISID Position Paper – International Journal of Infectious Diseases (free)

2 – European Society for the Study of Coeliac Disease (ESsCD) guideline for coeliac disease and other gluten-related disorders –
United European Gastroenterology Journal (free)

3 – Metformin in 2019 – JAMA (free for a limited period)

4 – High-Fiber Diet Might Protect Against Range of Conditions – JAMA (free for a limited period)

5 – Why most diagnostic procedures aren’t beneficial – PulmCrit (free)

“when strict evidence-based medicine is applied to procedures, they are often less impressive”.

6 – Sleep-Related Infant Suffocation Deaths Attributable to Soft Bedding, Overlay, and Wedging – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

News Release: Study: Soft bedding top cause of infant suffocation during sleep – AAP News (free)

Commentaries: Soft bedding poses grave danger to sleeping babies, study shows – University of Virginia Health System (free) AND Soft bedding top cause of suffocation death for sleeping babies in U.S. – Reuters (free) AND Soft Bedding a Leading Cause of Infant Suffocation – U.S. News (free)

7 – Foreign-Body Ingestions of Young Children Treated in US Emergency Departments: 1995–2015 – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Increase in foreign body ingestions among young children – Nationwide Children’s Hospital (free) AND US sees sharp rise in number of kids swallowing small objects – Nature News (free) AND Children Are Swallowing Foreign Objects More Frequently, Study Finds – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

8 – Association of Maternal Cigarette Smoking and Smoking Cessation with Preterm Birth – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentary: Study finds that quitting smoking during pregnancy lowers risk of preterm births – The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (free)

9 – Daylight Saving Time and Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Meta-Analysis – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free)

10 – Randomized Clinical Trial: A Normocaloric Low-Fiber Diet the Day Before Colonoscopy Is the Most Effective Approach to Bowel Preparation in Colorectal Cancer Screening Colonoscopy – Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (free)