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What’s the best way for children to lose weight?
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:46h | UTCNews release: Latest health evidence shows that making changes to diet, physical activity and behaviour may reduce obesity in children and adolescents – Cochrane Library (free)
Review 1: Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years (link to summary – $ for full-text)
Review 2: Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (link to summary – $ for full-text)
Commentary: What’s the best way for children to lose weight? Here’s what the research says – The Conversation (free)
Women and Heart Disease: New Data Reaffirm Lack of Awareness By Women and Physicians
23 Jun, 2017 | 14:37h | UTCKnowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding Cardiovascular Disease in Women: The Women’s Heart Alliance – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Women and Heart Disease: New Data Reaffirm Lack of Awareness By Women and Physicians – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Women’s CV Risk Underestimated, Underassessed – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Greater emphasis on preventing, treating heart disease in women needed – American College of Cardiology, via EurekAlert (free)
Related guidelines: Preventing and Experiencing Ischemic Heart Disease as a Woman: State of the Science: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (free) AND Acute Myocardial Infarction in Women: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (free)
Women continue to underestimate their risk of cardiovascular disease.
Better Medicine – Shared decisions, best evidence
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:34h | UTCBetter Medicine – Shared decisions, best evidence
Related article: Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: generalists — it’s time for a grassroots revolution (free)
“This Better Medicine resource page builds on the work of The BMJ’s Too Much Medicine initiative and the overdiagnosis group of the RCGP in helping health professionals worldwide to share knowledge with patients and jointly make better informed choices about their care.
Clinical effects of antivirals for hepatitis C: context is critical
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:56h | UTCEditorial: Clinical effects of antivirals for hepatitis C: context is critical – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (free)
Original Cochrane review: Direct-acting antivirals for chronic hepatitis C – Cochrane Library (link to summary – $ for full-text)
Commentary in The Guardian: ‘Miracle’ hepatitis C drugs costing £30k per patient ‘may have no clinical effect’ (free)
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening in Average-Risk Women
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:44h | UTCCommentary: OB/GYN Group Revises Breast Screening Recommendations for Average-Risk Women Physician’s First Watch (free)
Related guideline with a more conservative approach: Breast Cancer: Screening – U.S.Preventive Services Task Force (free)
Time-to-Furosemide Treatment and Mortality in Acute Heart Failure
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:51h | UTCTime-to-Furosemide Treatment and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Door-to-Furosemide Time in Acute Heart Failure – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
“God help us if this sort of observational data leads to “door to furosemide time” being adopted as a quality measure” (RT @adamcifu see Tweet)
Humanitarian Aid Is ‘Broken’
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:36h | UTCHumanitarian Aid Is ‘Broken,’ Says Former U.N. Official – NPR Goats and Soda (free)
Management of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:31h | UTCCommentary: Update on the Statement on Brain AVMs: Despite New Data, Questions Still Unanswered (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Management of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations (free PDF)
Slide Set: Management of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations (free PDF)
Improving Awareness of and Screening for Health Risks Among Sex Workers
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:39h | UTCNews release: Ob-Gyn Awareness of Sex Workers’ Health Risks During Routine Visits is Essential
Commentary: Group Offers Guidance on Screening for Female Sex Workers – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Update on anti-TNF agents and other new drugs for IBD
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:27h | UTCClinical Review: Update on anti-tumor necrosis factor agents and other new drugs for inflammatory bowel disease – The BMJ (free)
Head Positioning in Acute Stroke
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:04h | UTCCluster-Randomized, Crossover Trial of Head Positioning in Acute Stroke – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Quick Take Video Summary: The Head Position in Stroke Trial (free)
Commentary: Head Positioning During Early Stroke Treatment Apparently Doesn’t Affect Outcome – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Guideline summary: Consensus on Surgical Treatment of Infective Endocarditis
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:35h | UTCOriginal article: 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) consensus guidelines: Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: Executive summary (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
What is people-centered care? And why does it matter?
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:05h | UTCWHO Framework on integrated people-centered health services (free resources)
Video: WHO – What is people-centered care? And why does it matter? Our new video explains! (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet)
“Integrated people-centered health services means putting the comprehensive needs of people and communities, not only diseases, at the center of health systems, and empowering people to have a more active role in their own health”.
Why We Overrate the Lifesaving Power of Cancer Tests
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:01h | UTCWhy We Overrate the Lifesaving Power of Cancer Tests – Scientific American (free) (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)
Breastfeeding and the Risk of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease
23 Jun, 2017 | 00:59h | UTCCommentaries: Mother’s heart health tied to breastfeeding – Reuters Health (free) Does breastfeeding prevent heart disease and strokes? – STAT News (free) AND Breastfeeding could help a mother’s heart – in more ways than you think – American Heart Association News (free)
Observational data suggests there may be a protective effect.
Concierge Medicine For $10 A Month? Yes, It’s Possible
23 Jun, 2017 | 00:58h | UTCConcierge Medicine For $10 A Month? Yes, It’s Possible – Forbes (free)
Radiation Associated Cardiac Disease
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:03h | UTCReview: Radiation Associated Cardiac Disease – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Related Guidelines and Reviews: Prevention and Monitoring of Cardiac Dysfunction in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline (free) AND 2016 ESC Position Paper on cancer treatments and cardiovascular toxicity developed under the auspices of the ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (free) AND Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Cardiovascular Complications of Cancer Therapy (free) AND Cardiotoxicity of anticancer treatments: Epidemiology, detection, and management – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)
Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:00h | UTCInvited commentary: Every breath you take… (free)
Commentary: CPAP improves respiratory and survival rates in children in Ghana – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, via EurekAlert (free)
Preventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia
23 Jun, 2017 | 00:57h | UTCReport: Preventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Way Forward – The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free PDF)
Commentaries: When it comes to preventing dementia, not much is proved to work, says expert committee – STAT News (free) AND National Academies Committee Sees Promising but Inconclusive Evidence on Interventions to Prevent Cognitive Decline, Dementia – National Institute on Aging (free)
Fri, June 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!
23 Jun, 2017 | 00:34h | UTC
1 – WHO Framework on integrated people-centered health services (free resources)
Video: WHO – What is people-centered care? And why does it matter? Our new video explains! (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet)
“Integrated people-centered health services means putting the comprehensive needs of people and communities, not only diseases, at the center of health systems, and empowering people to have a more active role in their own health”.
2 – Cluster-Randomized, Crossover Trial of Head Positioning in Acute Stroke – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Quick Take Video Summary: The Head Position in Stroke Trial (free)
Commentary: Head Positioning During Early Stroke Treatment Apparently Doesn’t Affect Outcome – Physician’s First Watch (free)
3 – Review: Radiation Associated Cardiac Disease – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Related Guidelines and Reviews: Prevention and Monitoring of Cardiac Dysfunction in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline (free) AND 2016 ESC Position Paper on cancer treatments and cardiovascular toxicity developed under the auspices of the ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (free) AND Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Cardiovascular Complications of Cancer Therapy (free) AND Cardiotoxicity of anticancer treatments: Epidemiology, detection, and management – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)
4 – Why We Overrate the Lifesaving Power of Cancer Tests – Scientific American (free) (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)
Invited commentary: Every breath you take… (free)
Commentary: CPAP improves respiratory and survival rates in children in Ghana – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentaries: Mother’s heart health tied to breastfeeding – Reuters Health (free) Does breastfeeding prevent heart disease and strokes? – STAT News (free) AND Breastfeeding could help a mother’s heart – in more ways than you think – American Heart Association News (free)
Observational data suggests there may be a protective effect.
7 – Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going? – by Scott Munro, in Evidently Cochrane (free) (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
“Untrained bystander CPR had better outcomes when given telephone advice from EMS services to perform continuous CPR, rather than interrupted CPR with rescue breaths”. For trained EMS professionals, “it is possible that there is little or no difference between the two approaches”.
8 – An update on Zika virus infection – The Lancet (free registration required)
“Update on Zika virus infection (2017): review focuses on important updates & gaps in the knowledge” (RT @TheLancet see Tweet)
10 – Acupuncture for analgesia in the emergency department: a multicentre, randomised, equivalence and non-inferiority trial – Medical Journal of Australia (link to abstract – Free PDF here) (RT @theMJA see Tweet)
Author commentaries: Emergency doctors are using acupuncture to treat pain, now here’s the evidence – The Conversation (free)
Positive commentaries: Acupuncture Found to Be an Effective Analgesia Option in ER – PracticeUpdate (free registration required) AND Acupuncture relieves pain in emergency patients: Study – RMIT University, via ScienceDaily (free)
“Not so fast” commentaries: Acupuncture in the ER: No, study did not prove it was ‘safe and effective’ – HealthNewsReview (free) AND A skeptical look at a study of acupuncture delivered in emergency rooms, by James C Coyne (free)
Co-morbid OSA and insomnia increases depression prevalence and severity in men
23 Jun, 2017 | 00:55h | UTCCo-morbid OSA and insomnia increases depression prevalence and severity in men – Respirology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Combo of sleep apnea and insomnia linked to depression in men – Forbes (free) AND Sleep apnea and insomnia combination linked with depression – Wiley, via EurekAlert (free)
Benchmarking study helps hospitals improve measurement of adverse events
23 Jun, 2017 | 00:58h | UTCBenchmarking study helps hospitals improve measurement of adverse events – NIHR Signal (free)
Original report: Measuring harm and informing quality improvement in the Welsh NHS: the longitudinal Welsh national adverse events study – Health Services and Delivery Research (free PDF)
This study compared two different approaches to measure adverse events, the “Trigger Tool system” and the “Two-stage review”
Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes
22 Jun, 2017 | 16:32h | UTCValue-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)
“We believe that value-based care, implemented using lean principles and in conjunction with an ongoing, community-wide effort to address social determinants of health, can reduce health spending and deliver on the promise of better health”
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going?
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:30h | UTCCardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going? – by Scott Munro, in Evidently Cochrane (free) (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
“Untrained bystander CPR had better outcomes when given telephone advice from EMS services to perform continuous CPR, rather than interrupted CPR with rescue breaths”. For trained EMS professionals, “it is possible that there is little or no difference between the two approaches”.
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:57h | UTCJust started! Public Health in Humanitarian Crises – Free Online Course from the Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
“This course introduces a set of public health problems experienced by people affected by natural disasters and/or conflict. It discusses the many changes in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, ranging from changes in disease patterns, access to health care, livelihoods, shelter, sanitary conditions, nutritional status, etc”.