Wed, February 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – News Release: New WHO-ITU standard aims to prevent hearing loss among 1.1 billion young people – World Health Organization (free)

Report: Safe listening devices and systems: a WHO-ITU standard – World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union (free PDF)

Toolkit: Toolkit for safe listening devices and systems – World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union (free PDF)

2 – Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement – JAMA (free)

Editorials: Implementing the USPSTF Recommendations on Prevention of Perinatal Depression—Opportunities and Challenges (free) AND Perinatal Depression: Recommendations for Prevention and the Challenges of Implementation (free) 

Author Interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression (free audio)

Commentaries: Depression During and After Pregnancy Can Be Prevented, National Panel Says. Here’s How. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND To Prevent Pregnancy-Related Depression, At-Risk Women Advised To Get Counseling – NPR (free)

“The USPSTF recommends that clinicians provide or refer pregnant and postpartum persons who are at increased risk of perinatal depression to counseling interventions. (B recommendation)”

3 – Urine Sediment Examination in the Diagnosis and Management of Kidney Disease: Core Curriculum 2019 – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (free for a limited period)

4 – Severe toxicity from checkpoint protein inhibitors: What intensive care physicians need to know? – Annals of Intensive Care (free)

Related Review: New drugs, new toxicities: severe side effects of modern targeted and immunotherapy of cancer and their management – Critical Care (free)

Related Guidelines: Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline (free) AND Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group (free)

5 – The Case of the Scientific Ruse – EMNerd (free)

“February 7th 2019 marked an auspicious day in the history of the NEJM and its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.”

6 – Combined hormonal contraceptives for heavy menstrual bleeding – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Combined hormonal contraceptives for heavy menstrual bleeding – Cochrane Library (free)

7 – Intensive blood pressure reduction with intravenous thrombolysis therapy for acute ischaemic stroke (ENCHANTED): an international, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, phase 3 trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering With Intravenous Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke Did Not Improve Functional Outcomes – Practical Neurology (free) AND Tighter BP Control No Better in Acute Stroke – MedPage Today (free registration required)

8 – Association Between Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Risk of Mortality Among Middle-aged Adults in France – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Ultra-processed foods push death risk up by 14 percent, study says – UPI (free) AND Do ‘heavily processed’ foods increase the risk of an early death? – NHS Choices (free)

9 – Use of Active Surveillance or Watchful Waiting for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer and Management Trends Across Risk Groups in the United States, 2010-2015 – JAMA (free)

Commentaries: Study finds upsurge in ‘active surveillance’ for low-risk prostate cancer – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (free) AND Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Increasing in the US – Renal & Urology News (free) AND Conservative management of low-risk prostate cancer increasing in USA – medwire News (free) AND More men with low-risk prostate cancer are forgoing treatment, study finds – CNN (free)

10 – Best practice in Active Surveillance for men with prostate cancer: A Prostate Cancer UK consensus statement – BJU International (free PDF)

Related Guidelines: Active Surveillance for the Management of Localized Prostate Cancer (Cancer Care Ontario Guideline): American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Endorsement – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free) AND Active surveillance for the management of localized prostate cancer: Guideline recommendations – Canadian Urological Association Journal (free)

Related Randomized Trial: Radical Prostatectomy vs. Watchful Waiting in Prostate Cancer (link to abstract and commentaries)