General Interest
10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too.
2 Jul, 2019 | 05:57h | UTC10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Original Study: Meta-Research: A Comprehensive Review of Randomized Trials Leading to “Medical Reversals” in Three Medical Journals (free)
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Alcohol’s Secondhand Harms
2 Jul, 2019 | 06:01h | UTCCommentaries: The secondhand harms of drinking impact 1 in 5 adults, study says – CNN (free) AND Alcohol’s secondhand harms prevalent among U.S. women and men – Reuters (free)
Meta-Analysis: Impact of Sugar‐sweetened Beverage Taxes on Purchases and Dietary Intake
27 Jun, 2019 | 09:05h | UTCRelated: Cochrane Review: Environmental Interventions to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar‐sweetened Beverages and Their Effects on Health (free study and commentaries) AND Soda Tax Linked to a 50 Percent Reduction in Sugary Drink Consumption (link to abstract and several resources on the subject) AND AAP/AHA Policy Statement: Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents (free statement and commentaries) AND Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Associated with Reduced Consumption (link to abstract and commentaries)
Working While Sick: A Systematic Review of Infectious Illness Presenteeism
25 Jun, 2019 | 06:25h | UTCRelated Study: Working with influenza-like illness: Presenteeism among US health care personnel during the 2014-2015 influenza season – American Journal of Infection Control (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentaries: This flu season, physicians need to scrap the ‘martyr culture’ of working while sick – STAT (free) AND Healthcare Providers Shouldn’t Come to Work While Sick, but They Do — Here’s Why – HIV and ID Observations, Journal Watch Blog (free)
Infectious illness presenteeism (working while sick) prevalence ranged from 35 to 97%.
Opinion – “Debating Whether Checkups Are Time Wasted or Time Misused”
20 Jun, 2019 | 06:38h | UTCDebating Whether Checkups Are Time Wasted or Time Misused – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related Cochrane Review: General Health Checks for Reducing Illness and Mortality (free)
Perspective: Collateral Benefits of Preventive Chemotherapy — Expanding the War on Neglected Tropical Diseases
20 Jun, 2019 | 05:49h | UTC
To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over
13 Jun, 2019 | 07:39h | UTCTo Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over – NPR (free)
Related Video: How to create a better research poster in less time (including templates) (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Using the new #betterposter format at #ACSM19. It was the most productive poster presentation ever! Thanks @mikemorrison!#obesity #falls pic.twitter.com/X8oHAgs9ps
— Silvia Neri 🇧🇷 🇳🇱 (@silviagrneri) May 31, 2019
Never Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News
13 Jun, 2019 | 07:35h | UTCNever Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News – Kaiser Health News (free)
Meta-Research: A Comprehensive Review of Randomized Trials Leading to “Medical Reversals” in Three Medical Journals
12 Jun, 2019 | 08:23h | UTCCommentaries: Almost 400 medical practices found ineffective in analysis of 3,000 studies – eLIFE (free) AND Hundreds of current medical practices may be ineffective – Medical News Today (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
A review of more than 3,000 randomized clinical trials in NEJM, Lancet and JAMA reveals 396 medical reversals (results later shown to be wrong, usually in systematic reviews). 22 studies in pulmonary diseases and 45 in critical care medicine were affected. https://t.co/uAW9r3SMJs
— CryptoMD (@ClaudiaCDobler) June 11, 2019
Editorial: ICD 11
11 Jun, 2019 | 03:13h | UTCICD 11 – The Lancet (free)
Related: WHO: ICD-11 is Here! (free resources)
Perspective: The War to Free Science
11 Jun, 2019 | 03:11h | UTCThe war to free science – Vox (free)
Related: Plan S: Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality (free) AND Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand (free)
“How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls.”
Opinion: The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses
9 Jun, 2019 | 21:52h | UTCOpinion: The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers.”
New Preprint Server for Medical Research
9 Jun, 2019 | 21:51h | UTCNew preprint server for medical research – The BMJ (free)
See also: New preprint server for the health sciences announced today – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) (free) AND How to bring preprints to the charged field of medicine – Nature News (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
After careful planning and deliberation, we are excited to announce the launch of @medrxivpreprint, a preprint server for medical and public health sciences established in service of the scientific community – accepting papers now, site goes live June 25 https://t.co/CzXnwZ1u1w pic.twitter.com/dzcwInJykj
— Joseph Ross (@jsross119) June 6, 2019
Reproducibility Trial Publishes Two Conclusions for One Paper
6 Jun, 2019 | 05:53h | UTCReproducibility trial publishes two conclusions for one paper – Nature (free)
Related: Independent discussion sections for improving inferential reproducibility in published research – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free)
Does the News Reflect What We Die From?
4 Jun, 2019 | 06:19h | UTCDoes the news reflect what we die from? – Our World in Data (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
This week @HannahRitchie02 @UniofOxford published an enlightening graph on the discordance of causes of death vs media coveragehttps://t.co/SCeBUKM7DB @OurWorldInData @MaxCRoser 1/n pic.twitter.com/733QkvslkW
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 2, 2019
Plan S: Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality
3 Jun, 2019 | 07:33h | UTCPlan S: Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality – cOALlition S (free)
News Release: cOAlition S Releases Revised Implementation Guidance on Plan S Following Public Feedback Exercise – cOALlition S (free)
See also: Rationale for the Revisions Made to the Plan S Principles and Implementation Guidance – cOALlition S (free)
Commentaries: Ambitious open-access Plan S delayed to let research community adapt – Nature (free) AND Radical open-access plan delayed a year as revised effort seeks more support – Science (free)
Related: Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand (free resources)
Bioethics – “The Surgeon Had a Dilemma Only a Nazi Medical Text Could Resolve. Was it Ethical to Use It?”
31 May, 2019 | 06:31h | UTCThe surgeon had a dilemma only a Nazi medical text could resolve. Was it ethical to use it? – STAT (free)
At $2.1 Million, New Gene Therapy Is The Most Expensive Drug Ever
26 May, 2019 | 19:56h | UTCAt $2.1 Million, New Gene Therapy Is The Most Expensive Drug Ever – NPR (free)
See also: No Miracle Drug Should Cost $2.1 Million – Bloomberg Opinion (free) AND This New Treatment Could Save the Lives of Babies. But It Costs $2.1 Million. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“The price set by the Swiss drugmaker Novartis may be the world’s highest for a single treatment — prompting renewed debate about how society will pay for gene-therapy breakthroughs.” (from the New York Times)
Perspective: A Contrarian View of Digital Health
22 May, 2019 | 06:10h | UTCA Contrarian View of Digital Health – Quillette (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Smart Watch health apps are hypochondriac's nightmare.
Doing enough measurements will make anyone feel sick.
Will cause even more harmful over testing/treatment.
We must save normal from this dangerous new toy.
Prescient piece by the wise @drjohnm.https://t.co/JBROlnpjh5
— Allen Frances (@AllenFrancesMD) May 19, 2019
Google’s AI Improves Accuracy of Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Study Shows
21 May, 2019 | 06:10h | UTCGoogle’s AI improves accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis, study shows – STAT (free)
See also: A.I. Took a Test to Detect Lung Cancer. It Got an A. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Original Article: End-to-end lung cancer screening with three-dimensional deep learning on low-dose chest computed tomography – Nature Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
How to Make Health News Interesting — Without Overselling the Claims
19 May, 2019 | 15:09h | UTCHow to make health news interesting — without overselling the claims – The Conversation (free)
Original Article: Claims of causality in health news: a randomised trial – BMC Medicine (free)
Perspective: How Much Alcohol Can You Drink Safely?
17 May, 2019 | 06:49h | UTCHow Much Alcohol Can You Drink Safely? – The New York Times Magazine (10 articles per month are free)
Related Articles: Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories (free) AND Meta-analysis: Risk Thresholds for Alcohol Consumption (free )
Study: Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Associated with Reduced Consumption
16 May, 2019 | 05:03h | UTCAssociation of a Beverage Tax on Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages With Changes in Beverage Prices and Sales at Chain Retailers in a Large Urban Setting – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Emerging Evidence on a New Public Health Policy (free)
Commentaries: Soda Taxes Are a ‘No-Brainer’ for Public Health, Says the Author of a New Study on Them – TIME (free) AND Sales of Sweetened Drinks Fell 38% After Philadelphia Beverage Tax – AJMC (free)
Related: Soda Tax Linked to a 50 Percent Reduction in Sugary Drink Consumption (several policies, guidelines, studies and commentaries on the subject) AND AAP/AHA Policy Statement: Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents (free statement and commentaries)
Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Burnout in Medical and Surgical Residents
16 May, 2019 | 05:01h | UTCThe aggregate prevalence of burnout was 51.0% among residents. Subgroup analysis by specialty showed that radiology (77.16%), neurology (71.93%), and general surgery (58.39%) were the top three specialties with the highest prevalence of burnout.
Study Puts Eggs and Dietary Cholesterol Back on the Radar
9 May, 2019 | 07:55h | UTCStudy Puts Eggs and Dietary Cholesterol Back on the Radar – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Podcast: Study Puts Eggs and Dietary Cholesterol Back on the Radar (free audio)
Original Study: Cohort Study: Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality (link to abstract and commentaries)