Wed April 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Update in Neurocritical Care: a summary of the 2018 Paris international conference of the French Society of Intensive Care – Annals of Intensive Care (free)

2 – Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from Current Literature – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free)

3 – NICE Guideline: Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

4 – Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Employer Wellness Programs—A Work in Progress (free)

Commentaries: Workplace wellness programs may help people change certain behaviors but do little to improve overall health or lower spending, study shows – Harvard Medical School (free) AND How Well Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? – NPR (free) AND Harvard Study On Workplace Wellness: Behaviors Change But Health Does Not — So Far – CommonHealth (free) AND Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows – The New York Times (free)

Related: Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise (free)

5 – Impact of changes in heart rate with age on all-cause death and cardiovascular events in 50-year-old men from the general population – openheart (free)

Commentary: Mid-life resting heart rate of 75 plus beats/minute linked to doubling in early death risk – BMJ (free)

6 – Assessment of Inpatient Time Allocation Among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Using Time-Motion Observations – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) AND First-year doctors spend almost 90% of their time away from patients – University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine (free) AND First-year trainee doctors spend little time on patient care – Reuters (free) AND Medical Interns Spend 87 percent of Their Work Time Away From Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)

7 – Screening for breech presentation using universal late-pregnancy ultrasonography: A prospective cohort study and cost effectiveness analysis – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Additional routine ultrasounds benefit mothers and babies, and could be cost saving, study finds – PLOS (free) AND Expert reaction to study on additional routine ultrasounds – Science Media Centre (free)

8 – Management of transient ischemic attack or nondisabling stroke related to extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)

9 – FDA takes action to protect women’s health, orders manufacturers of surgical mesh intended for transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse to stop selling all devices – U.S. Food & Drug Administration (free)

Commentaries: FDA: Companies Must Stop Selling Vaginal Meshes for Pelvic Organ Prolapse – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND F.D.A. Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND US halts sales of pelvic mesh tied to injuries in women – Associated Press (free)

Related: Mesh Implants for Women: Scandal or Standard of Care? – JAMA (free for a limited period)

10 – Effect of ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease and nasopharyngeal carriage in Kenya: a longitudinal surveillance study – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Population versus individual protection by pneumococcal conjugate vaccination – The Lancet (free) AND PCV10 pneumococcal vaccine has big impact in Kenya, even among unvaccinated individuals – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (free)