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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Long-Term Health Consequences
3 Aug, 2017 | 19:21h | UTCPolycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Long-Term Health Consequences – Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, via Medscape (free registration required)
Quitting statins after stroke may raise risk of another stroke
3 Aug, 2017 | 19:43h | UTCCommentary: Quitting statins after stroke may raise risk of another stroke – AHA / ASA Newsroom (free) AND Many Stroke Patients Stop Statins or Never Start, With Dire Consequences – TCTMD (free) AND Stopping statins after stroke may increase second-stroke risk – Reuters (free)
Longer sleep is associated with lower BMI and favorable metabolic profiles
3 Aug, 2017 | 19:26h | UTCCommentary: Short sleep linked to body mass, waist size – Reuters Health (free)
Diagnosis, Treatment, and Long-Term Management of Kawasaki Disease
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:09h | UTC
Peri-operative myocardial injury and infarction in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:09h | UTCSummary with 10 key points to remember: Perioperative Myocardial Injury and Infarction After CABG – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
New Issue: Iatrogenesis in Pediatrics – AMA Journal of Ethics
3 Aug, 2017 | 19:17h | UTCIatrogenesis in Pediatrics – AMA Journal of Ethics (free) (RT @JournalofEthics)
New issue with series of articles exploring strategies clinicians need to know to respond to adverse outcomes.
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: clinical guidelines
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:07h | UTC
Antiemetics: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:06h | UTCAntiemetics: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update (free)
Related guideline: NCCN Guidelines Insights: Antiemesis, Version 2.2017 (free)
Commentaries: Antipsychotic Added to ASCO Antiemetic Guide – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND New Antiemetic Guidelines Issued by ASCO – Medscape (free registration required)
Guideline for the diagnosis, management, and followup of cryptorchidism
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:08h | UTC
Benefits and Harms of Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:04h | UTC“For most people, treatment was not beneficial and may be harmful. Antibiotic treatment did appear to benefit women in pregnancy and those about to undergo urological surgery”.
Choosing Wisely International Top 10 recommendations
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:01h | UTCChoosing Wisely: An International Campaign to Combat Overuse, with new Top 10 recommendations (free) (RT @ChooseWiselyCA and @CADTH_ACMTS see Tweet with infographic)
See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)
Choosing Wisely has prioritized 10 recommendations for limiting overuse internationally.
Neck Pain: Updated Clinical Practice Guideline
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:59h | UTC
Effectiveness of oral glucosamine for knee and hip osteoarthritis
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:03h | UTCSubgroup analyses of the effectiveness of oral glucosamine for knee and hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis from the OA trail bank – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text) (RT @PhysioMeScience see Tweet)
“Currently, there is no good evidence to support the use of glucosamine for hip or knee OA”
Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:02h | UTCCorrection of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos – Nature (free)
Nature News & Views: Biotechnology: At the heart of gene edits in human embryos (free)
Commentaries: Embryo Gene-Editing Experiment Reignites Ethical Debate – Scientific American (free) AND Scientists successfully used CRISPR to fix a mutation that causes disease. This is huge – VOX (free) AND U.S. scientists edit genome of human embryo, but cast doubt on possibility of ‘designer babies’ – STAT (free) AND Human embryos edited to stop disease – BBC (free) AND In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Management of metastatic colorectal cancer patients
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:55h | UTC
Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality – World Health Organization
3 Aug, 2017 | 14:00h | UTC
Brazilian guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cystic fibrosis
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:51h | UTC
Brazilian guidelines for the clinical management of paracoccidioidomycosis
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:50h | UTC
Resuscitation medicine – Singapore Guidelines
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:54h | UTCResuscitation medicine – Singapore Guidelines
– Basic Cardiac Life Support (free)
– Defibrillation (free)
– Advanced Cardiac Life Support (free)
– Paediatric Resuscitation (free)
– Neonatal Resuscitation (free)
– Post-resuscitation care (free)
– Therapeutic temperature management (TTM): post-resuscitation care for adult cardiac arrest (free)
– Bystander First Aid (free)
Access to Emergency Contraception
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:40h | UTCCommittee Opinion No 707: Access to Emergency Contraception – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cryosurgery of Pancreatic Cancer
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:52h | UTC
Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign indications: clinical practice guideline
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:49h | UTC
Diagnosis of Upper-Quadrant Lymphedema Secondary to Cancer
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:49h | UTC
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening in Average-Risk Women
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:38h | UTC
Sexual Health
3 Aug, 2017 | 13:39h | UTCCommittee Opinion No 706: Sexual Health – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)