Tue, Jan 10 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

1 – Right Care – Series from The Lancet (free registration required)

This Instant Classic series covers overuse & underuse of medical care across countries

2 – Related commentary: Right Care Series in The Lancet – Lown Institute

3 – Related commentary: Too many patients receiving unnecessary medicine, doctors say – The Age (@juliamedew)

4 – WHO Guideline: Fortification of Maize Flour and Corn Meal with Vitamins and Minerals – World Health Organization

5 – Use of noninvasive ventilation in immunocompromised patients with acute respiratory failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Critical Care

6 – Normal saline versus heparin for patency of central venous catheters in adult patients – a systematic review and meta-analysis – Critical Care

7 – Just Started – Clinical Epidemiology (Free Online Course from Coursera and Utrecht University)

8 – Just Started – Essentials of Global Health (Free Online Course from Coursera and Yale University)

9 – Just Started – Tropical Parasitology: Protozoans, Worms, Vectors and Human Diseases (Free Online Course from Coursera, Duke University and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College)

10 – Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 January 2017 – The BMJ Blogs