General Interest
Perspective: Has The Physical Exam Had Its day?
20 Nov, 2018 | 15:42h | UTCAbraar Karan: Has the physical exam had its day? – The BMJ Opinion (free)
“Seeing patients in clinic today, I know that putting my stethoscope on them has a therapeutic effect, even if as their doctor, I am quite certain their heart and lungs are normal. However, this doesn’t mean the physical exam should not evolve.” (via @AbraarKaran see Tweet)
Study: Prevalence of Falls in Older Adults with Self‐Reported Vision Impairment
20 Nov, 2018 | 15:41h | UTCCommentaries: Study: Impaired vision raises risk of falls in older adults – UPI (free) AND Having poor vision can raise risk for falls among older adults – American Geriatrics Society (free)
Study: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression
20 Nov, 2018 | 15:30h | UTCCommentary: Is Social Media Making You Depressed and Lonely? – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Dietary fat: From foe to friend?
20 Nov, 2018 | 15:18h | UTCDietary fat: From foe to friend? – Science (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Dietary fat is good? Dietary fat is bad? Coming to consensus – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free)
Study: Human Resting Energy Expenditure Varies with Circadian Phase
20 Nov, 2018 | 15:15h | UTCHuman Resting Energy Expenditure Varies with Circadian Phase – Current Biology (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: How many calories do you burn? It depends on time of day – Cell Press (free) AND Study: Calories burned depend on time of day – UPI (free) AND What time of day do we burn the most calories? – Medical News Today (free) AND Here’s When Your Body Burns the Most Calories, According to a New Study – TIME (free) AND Eat Carbs in the Morning, Fat at Night? – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Globalizing Risk, Localizing Threats
18 Nov, 2018 | 00:11h | UTCPublic Health Emergency Preparedness: Globalizing Risk, Localizing Threats – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Retrospective Cohort: Incidence of Indications for Tonsillectomy and Frequency of Evidence-Based Surgery
17 Nov, 2018 | 23:34h | UTCIncidence of indications for tonsillectomy and frequency of evidence-based surgery: a 12-year retrospective cohort study of primary care electronic records – British Journal of General Practice (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Most children who have their tonsils removed don’t benefit – The Conversation (free) AND Seven in 8 children’s tonsillectomies are unnecessary – University of Birmingham (free) AND ‘Too many children’ have tonsils removed unnecessarily – BBC (free)
Perspective: Addressing Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media
16 Nov, 2018 | 03:33h | UTCAddressing Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Review: A Time to Fast
16 Nov, 2018 | 03:29h | UTCA time to fast – Science (free for a limited period) (via @EricTopol)
Randomized Trial: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance
16 Nov, 2018 | 02:58h | UTCCommentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at low carbohydrate diets and weight maintenance – Science Media Centre (free) AND How a Low-Carb Diet Might Help You Maintain a Healthy Weight – The BMJ (10 articles per month are free) AND Low carb diets can help maintain weight loss by increasing number of calories burned – The BMJ (free)
Perspective: Are Medical Errors a Huge Problem That’s Simple to Fix?
16 Nov, 2018 | 02:55h | UTCBenjamin Mazer: Are medical errors a huge problem that’s simple to fix? – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Top 8 Healthcare Predictions for 2019
16 Nov, 2018 | 02:19h | UTCTop 8 Healthcare Predictions for 2019 – Forbes (free)
New Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
16 Nov, 2018 | 01:43h | UTCThe Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans – JAMA (free)
Editorial: New Physical Activity Guidelines: A Call to Activity for Clinicians and Patients (free)
Video Summary: Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition (free)
Commentaries: New Physical Activity Guidelines Urge Americans: Move More, Sit Less – NPR (free) AND HHS Releases Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition – U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (free)
Study: Public Health Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in Europe
16 Nov, 2018 | 02:14h | UTCCommentaries: Public health burden of antimicrobial resistance in Europe – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free) AND 33,000 people die every year due to infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria – European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (free) AND European study: 33,000 deaths a year from resistant infections – CIDRAP (free)
Debate: Could AI Make Doctors Obsolete?
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:51h | UTCHead To Head: Could artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete? – The BMJ (free)
Commentaries: Could machines using artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete? – The BMJ (free) AND Stop hyping artificial intelligence—patients will always need human doctors – The BMJ (free)
Study: Artificial Intelligence may Predict Alzheimer’s Years Before Diagnosis
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:50h | UTCA Deep Learning Model to Predict a Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease by Using 18F-FDG PET of the Brain – Radiology (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Artificial intelligence predicts Alzheimer’s years before diagnosis – Radiology Society of North America (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at AI technology, brain imaging and Alzheimer’s disease detection – Science Media Centre (free) AND AI May Detect Alzheimer’s Years Before Diagnosis – Medscape (free registration required)
Perspective: Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:42h | UTCWhy Doctors Hate Their Computers – The New Yorker (free)
“Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?”
In Win for Open Access, Two Major Funders Won’t Cover Publishing in Hybrid Journals
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:40h | UTCIn win for open access, two major funders won’t cover publishing in hybrid journals – Science (free)
See also: Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan – Nature (free) AND Wellcome is updating its open access policy (free) AND Big funders back plan for instant free access to journals, but researchers say it is risky for science – Science|Business (free)
Related: cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)
Study: Health-Motivated Taxes on Red and Processed Meat
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:36h | UTCCommentaries: Should there be a tax on red meat? – BBC (free) AND Taxing red meat would save many lives, research shows – The Guardian (free)
Related: To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times (free policies, articles and commentaries) AND Policy lessons from health taxes (free research and commentaries) AND Fiscal policies for diet and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization (free) AND The Lancet taskforce on NCDs and economics (free series and commentaries)
Study: Link Between Vaccines and Allergies Dismissed
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:32h | UTCCommentary: Link between vaccines and allergies dismissed – Karolinska Institutet (free)
Study: One Month of Cannabis Abstinence in Adolescents and Young Adults Is Associated With Improved Memory
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:02h | UTCOne Month of Cannabis Abstinence in Adolescents and Young Adults Is Associated With Improved Memory – Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves – NPR (free) AND Stopping Cannabis Tied to Memory Improvements – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Perspective: A Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and Bad
9 Nov, 2018 | 02:17h | UTCA Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and Bad – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“…we may also be medicalizing much of normal human behavior — labeling the healthy as diseased, and exposing them to undue risk of stigma, testing and treatment.”
Study: Associations Between Screen Time and Lower Psychological Well-Being Among Children and Adolescents
6 Nov, 2018 | 15:44h | UTCCommentary: Reduced screen time for young highly recommended for well-being – San Diego State University (free)
Perspective: Training the Next Generation of Doctors and Nurses
6 Nov, 2018 | 15:37h | UTCTraining the Next Generation of Doctors and Nurses – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
For a Child’s Cough, the Best Medicine Is No Medicine
6 Nov, 2018 | 15:06h | UTCFor a Child’s Cough, the Best Medicine Is No Medicine – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
See Original Article: What Treatments are Effective for Common Cold in Adults and Children? (link to abstract and commentaries)