Wed, April 3 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – WHO guidelines on tuberculosis infection prevention and control: 2019 update – World Health Organization (free)

Related Guidelines: WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (free) AND WHO Guideline: Latent TB Infection (free) AND WHO Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis and patient care (free)

2 – Urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

3 – JCS 2018 Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndrome – Circulation Journal (free)

4 – Bypass Surgery or Stenting for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Diabetes – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: CABG or Stenting for Left Main CAD in Diabetes – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Similar Composite Endpoints With Everolimus DES, CABG for LMCAD With Diabetes – Cardiology Advisor (free)

5 – Cerebral Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage: A Review – JAMA (free for a limited period)

6 – Highly Profitable Medical Journal Says Open Access Publishing Has Failed. Right. – Forbes (free)

Original Article: No Free Lunch — What Price Plan S for Scientific Publishing? – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Related: Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? – Science (free) AND The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back – VOX (free) AND Ten myths around open scholarly publishing – PeerJ Preprints (free PDF) AND The world debates open-access mandates (free) AND China Backs Bold Plan to Tear Down Journal Paywalls (free) AND Europe’s Bold Open-Access Plan Detailed (free) Groundbreaking deal makes large number of German studies free to public – Science (free) AND Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand – Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)

7 – Extended anticoagulation for the secondary prevention of venous thromboembolic events: An updated network meta-analysis – PLOS One (free)

8 – Ann Robinson’s weekly research reviews, 2 April 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

9 – Associations between vascular risk factors and brain MRI indices in UK Biobank – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentaries: What’s bad for the heart is also bad for the brain – Reuters (free) AND Smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity each linked to unhealthy brains – European Society of Cardiology (free)

10 – Efficacy and safety of spironolactone in the heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials – Medicine (free)

Related Meta-Analysis with Somewhat Conflicting Conclusions: Effects of spironolactone in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction – Medicine (free) AND Effects of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in patients with preserved ejection fraction: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials – BMC Medicine (free)

Related Randomized Trial: Spironolactone for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction – New England Journal of Medicine (free)