Wed, Jan 25 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

1 – Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (@EricTopol)

“The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for OSA in asymptomatic adults”

2 – Editorial: Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Important to Find, but How Hard Should We Look? – JAMA Internal Medicine

3 – Editorial: Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Implications for the Sleep Health of the Population – JAMA

4 – Data from Home Sleep Testing Could Be as Good as Sleep Lab Testing for OSA – Physician’s First Watch

(Original article abstract – $ required for full-text)

5 – Just pass the tissues… Evidence on remedies for the common cold – Cochrane Library

6 – We Will Miss Antibiotics When They’re Gone – The New York Times (RT @greg_folkers)

7 – The Conversation Placebo – The New York Times

8 – Parsimonious blood use and lower transfusion triggers: What is the evidence? – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

9 – Update of the ASAS-EULAR management recommendations for axial spondyloarthritis – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases

10 – New Guidelines Streamline Spondyloarthritis Management: Up-to-date recommendations integrate AS and axSpA – MedPage Today (free registration required)