Wed January 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Eliminating Medication Overload: A National Action Plan – Lown Institute (free PDF)

Press Release: Millions of Older Americans Harmed by Too Many Medications – Lown Institute (free)

Commentary: ‘Small’ tactics to counter Big Pharma’s influence on medication overload – STAT (free)

Related: Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (several articles and commentaries on the subject)

2 – American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support – Blood Advances (free)

3 – ACG Clinical Guideline: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free PDF)

4 – Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 28 JANUARY 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

See also: WHO, China leaders discuss next steps in battle against coronavirus outbreak – World Health Organization (free) The Deceptively Simple Number Sparking Coronavirus Fears – The Atlantic (free) AND What Will It Take to Stop Coronavirus? – Harvard Business Review (free) AND The 2 key questions that will determine if the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic – Vox (free) AND WHO seeks to answer nCoV unknowns as more local spread noted outside of China – CIDRAP (free) The coronavirus questions that scientists are racing to answer – STAT (free)

5 – Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected – World Health Organization (free PDF)

See Other Documents: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) technical guidance – World Health Organization (free)

6 – HIV infection and coronary heart disease: mechanisms and management – Nature Reviews Cardiology (free PDF)

7 – Association of Isolated Diastolic Hypertension as Defined by the 2017 ACC/AHA Blood Pressure Guideline With Incident Cardiovascular Outcomes – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Isolated Diastolic Hypertension Using Tighter BP Cutoff Not Tied to Later CV Risk – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

8 – First-Trimester Pregnancy Exposure to Modafinil and Risk of Congenital Malformations – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Modafinil in First Trimester Associated with Birth Defects – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

9 – Prevention of non-communicable disease: best buys, wasted buys, and contestable buys – The BMJ (free)

See also: Full BMJ Collection on Health, wealth, and profits (free articles)

10 – Leaving no woman, no child, and no adolescent behind – The BMJ (free articles)

News Release: Can we achieve health for all women, children, and adolescents by 2030? – Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (free)