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Cluster Randomized Trial: Smartphone-based Screening for Visual Impairment in Children
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:22h | UTCCommentaries: Strengthening eye health evidence for children in low-income and middle-income countries – The Lancet Global Health (free) AND App screening boosts children’s eye health – Medical Health News (free)
Cohort Study: Fertility Treatments and Cancer Risk
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:24h | UTCCommentaries: No association found between fertility treatment, some types of cancer – ACP Internist (free) AND Fertility treatment does not appear to raise serious cancer risk – OnMedica (free)
Position Statement: Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:21h | UTCRelated: Polypharmacy Guidance, Realistic Prescribing 3 rd Edition, 2018 – Scottish Government Polypharmacy Model of Care Group (free PDF) AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) AND Common ED Medication Errors: Polypharmacy – emDocs (free) AND Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free) AND The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills – The Whashington Post (free) AND Routine deprescribing of chronic medications to combat polypharmacy – Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety (free) AND Polypharmacy—an Upward Trend with Unpredictable Effects – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free) AND Clinical Consequences of Polypharmacy in Elderly – Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (free)Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free)
Study: Global Mapping of Vulnerability to Snakebite Envenoming
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:18h | UTCVulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots – The Lancet (free)
Commentaries: Addressing the global challenge of snake envenoming – The Lancet (free) AND New study maps the areas where people are most vulnerable to death following snakebite – London School of Tropical Medicine (free) AND New study finds 93 million people vulnerable to death from snakebites – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free)
EULAR Recommendations: Physical Activity in People with Inflammatory Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:15h | UTC
Meta-Analysis: Effects of Aspirin for CV Disease Prevention According to Bodyweight and Dose
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:20h | UTCCommentaries: Weight-adjusted aspirin for cardiovascular prevention – The Lancet (free) AND One dose of aspirin doesn’t fit all – University of Oxford (free)
Practice Changing Article. “Low doses of aspirin (75–100 mg) were only effective in preventing vascular events in patients weighing less than 70 kg, and had no benefit in the 80% of men and nearly 50% of all women weighing 70 kg or more. By contrast, higher doses of aspirin were only effective in patients weighing 70 kg or more.”
Cohort Study: Inferior Vena Cava Filters and Mortality in Patients with Contraindication to Anticoagulation
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:17h | UTCCommentaries: Inferior Vena Cava Filters and Mortality: Is It the Underlying Process, the Patient, or the Device? (free)
“Could IVC filters be causing harm? They began being used before @US_FDA started approving devices. This article raises possibility of increased mortality. Maybe where we need trials to determine safety and effectiveness”. (via @hmkyale see Tweet)
Guideline: Management of Non ST-segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:14h | UTCRelated Guidelines: 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation (free) AND 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (free)
Expert Consensus: Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:13h | UTC
Study: Machine Learning of Toxicological Big Data May Outperforming Animal Tests
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:12h | UTCCommentaries: New digital chemical screening tool could help eliminate animal testing – Science (free) AND Database Analysis More Reliable Than Animal Testing For Toxic Chemicals – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (free) AND Software beats animal tests at predicting toxicity of chemicals – Nature News (free)
Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Class 1 Recommendation
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:11h | UTCCardiac rehabilitation: A class 1 recommendation – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)
Related Guidelines: Cardiac rehabilitation – Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (free) AND Myocardial infarction: cardiac rehabilitation and prevention of further cardiovascular disease – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
Study: Biomarkers of Dairy Fat and Total and Cause-specific Mortality
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:08h | UTCSerial measures of circulating biomarkers of dairy fat and total and cause-specific mortality in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Study finds no significant link between whole dairy products and heart disease, stroke – News Medical (free) AND Full-fat dairy may actually benefit heart health – Medical News Today (free)
Related Studies: Meta-Analysis: Cheese consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Milk and dairy consumption and risk of cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality (free study and commentaries)
Study: New Guidelines Increase the Prevalence of Hypertension Among Youths
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:10h | UTCHypertension Among Youths — United States, 2001–2016 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)
Commentaries: 800,000 More Adolescents Classified as Hypertensive Under New Guidelines – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND New guidelines label 795K more US children as hypertensive – Cardiovascular Business (free)
3-D Color X-Rays in Development
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:05h | UTC3-D Color X-Rays Could Help Spot Deadly Disease Without Surgery – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Review: The Past, Present and Future of Heart Transplantation
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:06h | UTCThe Past, Present and Future of Heart Transplantation – The Korean Society of Cardiology (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Guideline: Bicuspid Aortic Valve–Related Aortopathy
20 Jul, 2018 | 02:00h | UTC
Cohort Study: Sex Differences in Outcomes of Heart Failure
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:58h | UTCCommentaries: Death rates from heart failure higher for women than men – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Women face greater risk of dying from heart failure – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Heart Failure May Be More Lethal in Women – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Review: Prevention and Management of Urosepsis Triggered by Ureteroscopy
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:55h | UTCPrevention and management of urosepsis triggered by ureteroscopy – Research and Reports in Urology (free)
Systematic Review: Vaginal Preparation with Antiseptics Before Cesarean Section for Preventing Postoperative Infections
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:57h | UTCSummary: Vaginal cleansing with antiseptic solution before cesarean delivery to reduce post-cesarean infections – Cochrane Library (free)
Consensus: Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:56h | UTC
Report: Antimicrobial Resistance in Europe
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:50h | UTCCommentary: ECDC report shows rising resistance in gram-negative bacteria – CIDRAP (free)
Review: Management of Refractory Cirrhotic Ascites
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:54h | UTCManagement of refractory cirrhotic ascites: challenges and solutions – Hepatic Medicine (free)
WHO Report: Global Progress on Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:51h | UTCMonitoring global progress on addressing antimicrobial resistance: analysis report of the second round of results of AMR country self-assessment survey 2018 – World Health Organization (free PDF) (via @Onisillos)
Commentary: Report cites progress, gaps in global AMR efforts – CIDRAP (free)
Guideline: Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:49h | UTC
NCCN Guideline Update: Rectal Cancer
20 Jul, 2018 | 01:47h | UTC