Wed February 19 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Homepage: A future for the world’s children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission – The Lancet (free articles)

Commission: A future for the world’s children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission (free)

Editorial: No excuses and no time to lose (free)

Invited Commentaries: The voices of children in the global health debate (free) AND Framing an agenda for children thriving in the SDG era: a WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission on Child Health and Wellbeing (free)

WHO News Release: A Future for the World’s Children – World Health Organization (free)

Commentaries: Children facing uncertain future, experts warn – BBC (free) AND The world is failing to ensure children have a ‘liveable planet’, report finds – The Guardian (free)

2 – The Epidemiological Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) – China, 2020 – China CDC Weekly (free PDF – link via Forbes)

Commentaries: Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk – BBC (free) AND New Chinese Study Finds That The Elderly Are Most At Risk From The Coronavirus [Infographic] – Forbes (free) AND Expert reaction to WHO Director General’s statement on new paper from China detailing over 44,000 of their cases – Science Media Centre (free)

3 – Effects of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Death and Myocardial Infarction Stratified by Stable and Unstable Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (free)

Editorial: The ISCHEMIA Trial Meets the Rashomon Effect: Lessons for Clinical Practice (free for a limited period)

4 – Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score Compared with a Clinical Risk Score for Incident Coronary Heart Disease – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related Study: Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score–Enhanced Prediction Model vs a Clinical Risk Score for Coronary Artery Disease – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Do Polygenic Risk Scores Improve Patient Selection for Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease? (free)

Commentary: Gene tests for heart disease risk have limited benefit – Imperial College London (free)

5 – Global and regional burden of cancer in 2016 arising from occupational exposure to selected carcinogens: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 – Occupational & Environmental Medicine (free)

6 – Effectiveness of herbal medicines for weight loss: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials – Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (free)

Commentary: Insufficient evidence backing herbal medicines for weight loss – University of Sidney (free)

7 – An evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on sugar-sweetened beverage purchases from 2015 to 2017: A before-and-after study – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentary: Sugary Drink Consumption Plunges in Chile After New Food Law – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

8 – Here are 10 of the most urgent health challenges we’ll face in the 2020s, according to WHO – World Economic Forum (free)

Original WHO Statement: WHO’s List of Urgent Global Health Challenges for the New Decade (free statement and commentary)

9 – Antimicrobial stewardship failure: time for a new model – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (free)

10 – Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives / 19 February 2020 Edition

19 February 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)