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Telehealth Doctor Visits

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:57h | UTC

Telehealth Doctor Visits May Be Handy, But Aren’t Cheaper Overall – NPR Health News (free)

Link to original article abstract ($ required for full-text): Direct-To-Consumer Telehealth May Increase Access to Care But Does Not Decrease Spending – Health Affairs

Costs have increased in this study because 88 percent of telehealth visits represented people who would not have gone to a doctor otherwise.

Surgeries are being performed with the patient awake

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:59h | UTC

Going Under the Knife, With Eyes and Ears Wide Open – New York Times (free access to 10 articles per month)

“More and more surgeries are being performed with the patient awake and looking on, for financial and medical reasons”.

Revised Framingham Stroke Risk Profile

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:48h | UTC

Revised Framingham Stroke Risk Profile to Reflect Temporal Trends – Circulation (free)

“A revised Framingham Stroke Risk Profile more accurate at predicting contemporary stroke risk”.

“Instant classic paper on stroke risk prediction?! Will patients be interested in this?” (RT @MaryCushmanMD)

Adverse Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatments

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:48h | UTC

Adverse Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatments Vary – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Study 1 – Link to abstract ($ required for full-text): Association Between Radiation Therapy, Surgery, or Observation for Localized Prostate Cancer and Patient-Reported Outcomes After 3 Years – JAMA

Study 2 – Link to abstract ($ required for full-text): Association Between Choice of Radical Prostatectomy, External Beam Radiotherapy, Brachytherapy, or Active Surveillance and Patient-Reported Quality of Life Among Men With Localized Prostate Cancer – JAMA

HER2 Testing and Clinical Decision Making in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:53h | UTC

HER2 Testing and Clinical Decision Making in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma: Guideline From the College of American Pathologists, American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts (free registration required)

#WorldTBDay, 24 March 2017

24 Mar, 2017 | 17:19h | UTC

#WorldTBDay, 24 March 2017 – Highlights from Today’s Campaigns and Resources

1 – #WorldTBDay – World Health Organization Campaign (free)

See also: WHO’s work on TB (free)

2 – #WorldTBDay – Ethics guidance for the implementation of the End TB strategy 2017 – World Health Organization (free)

News Release: WHO issues ethics guidance to protect rights of TB patients (free)

3 – #WorldTBDay – The End TB Strategy – World Health Organization (free)

See also: Implementing the end TB strategy: the essentials (free)

4 – #WorldTBDay – Global tuberculosis report 2016 – World Health Organization (free)

News release: WHO report warns global actions and investments to end tuberculosis epidemic are falling far short (free)

5 #WorldTBDay – WHO treatment guidelines for drug-resistant tuberculosis (2016 update) – World Health Organization (free)

See also: WHO resources on drug-resistant tuberculosis (free)

6 – #WorldTBDay – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Campaign (free)

7 – #WorldTBDay – The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (free registration required)

“Rise of multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis could derail global efforts to eradicate the disease, according to a new report”

8 – #WorldTBDay – Open Access Special collection from Elsevier Journals (free)

9 – #WorldTBDay – Clinical management of adults and children with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis – Clinical Microbiology and Infection (free)

10 – #WorldTBDay – Preventing the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and protecting contacts of infectious cases – Clinical Microbiology and Infection (free)

Prenatal nutrition, socioenvironmental conditions, and child development

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:43h | UTC

Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation and other biomedical and socioenvironmental influences on children’s cognition at age 9–12 years in Indonesia: follow-up of the SUMMIT randomised trial – The Lancet Global Health (free)

Related commentary: Prenatal nutrition, socioenvironmental conditions, and child development (free)

“Maternal MMN had long-term benefits for child cognitive development at 9–12 years of age, thereby supporting its role in early childhood development, and policy change toward MMN”. The related commentary above does not seem to agree with this statement from the authors, stating that the new evidence does not provide enough weight for a policy change from prenatal iron and folate to MMN supplementation.