General Interest
Research: Trends in Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest During Nights and Weekends
26 Jan, 2018 | 01:26h | UTCTrends in Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest During Nights and Weekends – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Survival From In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Improves But Still Worse on Nights and Weekends – MedicalResearch.com (free)
AND Hospital patients less likely to survive ‘off-hours’ cardiac arrest – Reuters (free) AND You are still more likely to die in a hospital on the weekend – CNN (free)
See also a recent meta-analysis showing the “weekend effect” in surgical patients
Report: Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes
26 Jan, 2018 | 01:24h | UTCReport: Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free PDF)
Press release: New Report One of the Most Comprehensive Studies on Health Effects of E-Cigarettes; Finds That Using E-Cigarettes May Lead Youth to Start Smoking, Adults to Stop Smoking (free)
Commentaries: E-Cigarettes Likely Encourage Kids To Try Tobacco But May Help Adults Quit – NPR (free) AND 4 big takeaways from the most comprehensive report on e-cigarettes yet – VOX (free) AND Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Research: Cloning of Macaque Monkeys
26 Jan, 2018 | 00:38h | UTCCloning of Macaque Monkeys by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer – Cell (free)
Commentaries: These monkey twins are the first primate clones made by the method that developed Dolly – Science (free) AND First monkeys cloned with technique that made Dolly the sheep – Nature (free) AND How afraid of human cloning should we be? – The Guardian (free)
International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education
26 Jan, 2018 | 00:28h | UTCInternational technical guidance on sexuality education: An evidence-informed approach – UNESCO (free PDF)
News release: UN urges Comprehensive Approach to Sexuality Education – UNESCO (free)
Commentary: UN issues more progressive guidelines on sex education – Devex (free)
Meta-Analysis: Just One Cigarette a Day Seriously Elevates Cardiovascular Risk
26 Jan, 2018 | 00:24h | UTCEditorial: Just one cigarette a day seriously elevates cardiovascular risk (free)
Commentaries: CHD and stroke risk seriously elevated with just one daily cigarette – OnMedica (free) AND Smoking Even One Cigarette a Day Raises Cardiovascular Risk – Medscape (free registration required) AND Smoking Just One Cigarette a Day Carries Substantial Risks – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Big Data Comes to Dieting
26 Jan, 2018 | 00:13h | UTCBig Data Comes to Dieting – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Busting 10 Common Myths about the “Greatest Pandemic in History”
25 Jan, 2018 | 21:03h | UTCBusting 10 Common Myths about the “Greatest Pandemic in History” – Scientific American (free)
Do You Work More Than 39 Hours a Week? Your Job Could be Killing You
25 Jan, 2018 | 21:01h | UTCDo you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you – The Guardian (free)
Gene Editing – And What it Really Means to Rewrite the Code of Life
25 Jan, 2018 | 20:53h | UTCGene editing – and what it really means to rewrite the code of life – The Guardian (free)
Related: Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos (free articles and commentaries) AND Simple guide to CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade – VOX (free)
Research: Flu May be Spread by Breathing, not Just Coughs, Sneezes
23 Jan, 2018 | 16:38h | UTCCommentaries: Study confirms flu spreads by aerosols, not just coughs, sneezes – CIDRAP (free) AND Flu may be spread just by breathing, new UMD-led study shows – University of Maryland, via EurekAlert (free)
Video: Pandemics – a Worrying Global Public Health Threat
21 Jan, 2018 | 17:00h | UTCPandemics – a worrying global public health threat (free) (via @RSTMH see Tweet)
Related: The World Is Completely Unprepared for a Global Pandemic – Harvard Business Review (free) AND Is It Possible to Predict the Next Pandemic? – The Atlantic (free) AND Stopping Pandemics Before They Start – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Research: Detection of Surgically Resectable Cancers with a Multi-analyte Blood Test
21 Jan, 2018 | 17:03h | UTCDetection and localization of surgically resectable cancers with a multi-analyte blood test – Science (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Simple blood test detects eight different kinds of cancer – Nature News (free) A new blood test can detect eight different cancers in their early stages – The Conversation (free) AND CancerSEEK: Blood Test That Detects Eight Common Cancers – Medscape (free registration required) AND Scientists Edge Closer To A Blood Test To Detect Cancers – NPR (free) And Blood test could use DNA to spot early-stage cancers, study shows – The Guardian (free)
Opinion: The Corruption of Medical Language
21 Jan, 2018 | 14:23h | UTCRichard Smith: The corruption of medical language – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Related: It’s not just you: science papers are getting harder to read – Nature (free) ‘It’s time to make sure research is understandable to all’ – The Telegraph (free) AND Scientific language is becoming more informal – Nature (free)
“Too often, academic journals are filled with complex language and turgid prose, which is intended not to inform the reader but to ennoble the writer”. (via @bmj_latest see Tweet)
Research: Adverse Effects of Caffeinated Energy Drinks Among Youth and Young Adults in Canada
21 Jan, 2018 | 14:12h | UTCCommentaries: Over half of 12-24 year olds have side effects from energy drinks, survey reports – NHS Choices (free) AND Energy drinks can negatively impact health of youth – University of Waterloo, via ScienceDaily (free)
Related Position Statement: Energy and sports drinks in children and adolescents – Canadian Pediatric Society (free)
Interest in the Ketogenic Diet Grows for Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes
21 Jan, 2018 | 14:11h | UTCMedical News & Perspectives: Interest in the Ketogenic Diet Grows for Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes – JAMA (free for a period)
Research: Effect of Work Stressors on the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
16 Jan, 2018 | 19:14h | UTCEffect of Changing Work Stressors and Coping Resources on the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: The OHSPIW Cohort Study – Diabetes Care (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Increased stress at work linked to higher risk of diabetes – Reuters (free)
Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?
16 Jan, 2018 | 19:09h | UTCCan Your Hip Replacement Kill You? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“Lawsuits are pulling back the curtain on what some doctors call the Wild West of medicine: the untested and largely unregulated medical device industry” (via @NYTHealth see Tweet)
Research: Breast Implants and the Risk of Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma in the Breast
16 Jan, 2018 | 19:01h | UTCBreast Implants and the Risk of Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma in the Breast – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Breast Implants Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma – Oncology Nurse Advisor (free) AND Dutch Study Links Implants to Increased Breast-ALCL Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Children and Social Media
16 Jan, 2018 | 19:00h | UTCEditorial: Children and social media – The Lancet (free)
Original report: Life in ‘likes’ – Children’s Commissioner (free)
See also a recent Pediatrics supplement: Children, Adolescents and Screens: What We Know and What We Need To Learn (series of free articles) and related articles on Social Media and Mental Health
What I’ve Learned from My Tally of 757 Doctor Suicides
16 Jan, 2018 | 18:54h | UTCWhat I’ve learned from my tally of 757 doctor suicides – The Washington Post (free)
Related: Why are doctors killing themselves? – MJA InSight (free) AND Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus – STAT (free) AND Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide – STAT (free)
How to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience
16 Jan, 2018 | 18:55h | UTCHow to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related: In 2018 we need less nonsense and more science – The Globe and Mail (free)
Bioethics: 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
16 Jan, 2018 | 18:46h | UTCBioethics: 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (selected free texts)
‘Frankenstein’ Reflects The Hopes And Fears Of Every Scientific Era – The Atlantic (Free) AND The Horror Story That Haunts Science: Two Hundred Years Later, Frankenstein still Shocks And Inspires – Science (free) AND Infographic: Creating a modern monster – Science (free) AND Taming the Monsters of Tomorrow – Science (free) AND Dr Frankenstein’s Bioethical Experiment – The Lancet (Free Registration Required)
Too Much Screening has Misled us About Real Cancer Risk Factors, Experts Say
16 Jan, 2018 | 18:09h | UTCToo much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors, experts say – STAT (free) AND Overscreening for Cancer Yields Misleading Results – MedPage Today (free) AND Could finding more cancer lead us to understand risk factors less? – HealthNewsReview (free)
Original article: Scrutiny-Dependent Cancer and Self-fulfilling Risk Factors – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Sugar Tax: Why Health Experts Want it But Politicians and Industry are Resisting
16 Jan, 2018 | 17:36h | UTCSugar tax: why health experts want it but politicians and industry are resisting – The Guardian (free)
Related: Beverage consumption taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages AND The potential impact of food taxes and subsidies on cardiovascular disease and diabetes burden and disparities AND Fiscal policies for the prevention of diseases AND Reducing cardiovascular disease burden through targeted dietary policies
Opinion: For Doctors, Age May Be More Than a Number
16 Jan, 2018 | 13:22h | UTCFor Doctors, Age May Be More Than a Number – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)