Wed May 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Compendium: The Medical and Device-Related Treatment of Heart Failure – Circulation Research (free articles)

Editorial: The Medical and Device-Related Treatment of Heart Failure

– Medical Therapy for Heart Failure Caused by Ischemic Heart Disease

– Novel Therapies for Prevention and Early Treatment of Cardiomyopathies: Now and in the Future

– Medical Therapy for Heart Failure Associated With Pulmonary Hypertension

– Management of Myocarditis-Related Cardiomyopathy in Adults

– Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Therapy in Heart Failure

– Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction In Perspective

– Leveraging Signaling Pathways to Treat Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Past, Present, and Future

– Anthracycline and Peripartum Cardiomyopathies: Predictably Unpredictable

– Stimulating Cardiogenesis as a Treatment for Heart Failure

2 – Association of Nonfasting vs Fasting Lipid Levels With Risk of Major Coronary Events in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial–Lipid Lowering Arm – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: New evidence: It’s not necessary to fast before complete cholesterol test – Brigham and Women’s Hospital (free) AND More Evidence That Fasting Isn’t Necessary Before Lipid Tests – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

3 – Assessment of the Clinical Benefit of Cancer Drugs Receiving Accelerated Approval – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Related Study: An Overview of Cancer Drugs Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration Based on the Surrogate End Point of Response Rate – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Invited Commentaries: An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times (free for a limited period) AND Accelerated Approval of Cancer Drugs—Righting the Ship of the US Food and Drug Administration (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Cancer Drugs Approved Quickly Often Fail To Measure Up Later – NPR (free) AND Questions raised over cancer drugs in FDA’s accelerated approval program – CNN (free)

4 – WHO Redefines Burnout As A ‘Syndrome’ Linked To Chronic Stress At Work – NPR (free)

See also: Burn-out an “occupational phenomenon”: International Classification of Diseases – World Health Organization (free)

5 – Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Physician burnout costs the US health care system approximately $4.6 billion a year – American College of Physicians (free) AND Doctors are burning out twice as fast as other workers. The problem’s costing the US $4.6 billion each year. – Business Insider (free) AND Physician Burnout Costs the U.S. Billions of Dollars Each Year – TIME (free)

Related: Physician Burnout Costs up to $17B a Year, Task Force Says (articles and commentaries on the subject)

6 – Updates in Gestational Diabetes Prevalence, Treatment, and Health Policy – Current Diabetes Reports (free)

7 – Opinion – “Should the US Government Pay People For Their Kidneys? – Forbes” (free)

8 – Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Is It Time to Consider Screening? – Journal of Global Oncology (free)

“the placement of priority on early detection cannot be assumed to be effective in LMICs, where limited downstream resources may be overwhelmed by the inevitable increases in number of diagnoses.”

9 – Effect of Laparoscopic vs Open Distal Gastrectomy on 3-Year Disease-Free Survival in Patients With Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer: The CLASS-01 Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

10 – Posthospital Fall Injuries and 30-Day Readmissions in Adults 65 Years and Older – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Hospitals fall short in teaching fall prevention to departing patients – University of Michigan (free) AND Fall Injuries Top Cause of Hospital Readmission in Elderly – Medscape (free registration required)