General Interest
Sugar Industry Suppressed Evidence of Health Risks of Sucrose
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:59h | UTCCommentaries: What The Industry Knew About Sugar’s Health Effects, But Didn’t Tell Us – NPR (free) AND Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Big Sugar Buried These Concerning Health Studies 50 Years Ago – ScienceAlerts (free) AND Sugar Industry Suppressed Evidence of Health Risks of Sucrose – UC San Francisco (free)
Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout
25 Nov, 2017 | 23:00h | UTCCounting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free)
Research: Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:51h | UTCAssociation of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Hormonal Contraception May Increase Risk of Suicide, Study Suggests – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Oral Contraceptives Linked to Suicide – Medscape (free registration required)
Research: Detecting hip fractures with radiologist-level performance using deep neural networks
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:43h | UTCRelated: CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning – Stanford ML Group (free)
Research: Direct medical costs of motorcycle crashes
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:36h | UTCDirect medical costs of motorcycle crashes in Ontario – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)
Commentaries: Motorcycle crashes cause 5 times as many deaths as car accidents, 6 times the health costs – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Motorcycle crashes are alarmingly common — and incredibly costly – STAT (free)
Research: Association between maternal sleep practices and late stillbirth
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:37h | UTCCommentary: Stillbirth risk doubled in women sleeping on their back – OnMedica (free) AND Women advised to sleep on side to help prevent stillbirth – BBC (free)
Research: The association between paternal and adolescent depressive symptoms
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:12h | UTCEditorial: The effect of paternal depression on depressive symptoms in adolescent offspring (free)
Commentaries: Dads’ Depression Tied to Increased Depression Risk in Teenage Children – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Teenage depression linked to father’s depression – University College London, via ScienceDaily (free)
Research: Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:09h | UTCCommentaries: Dog ownership linked to lower mortality – Uppsala University, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Owning A Dog May Help Your Heart, Study Shows – Forbes (free)
Bird Flu Is Spreading in Asia, Experts (Quietly) Warn
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:09h | UTCBird Flu Is Spreading in Asia, Experts (Quietly) Warn – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Research: Speed of processing training results in lower risk of dementia
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:04h | UTCCommentaries: Can brain training reduce dementia risk? Despite new research, the jury is still out – The Guardian (free) AND Nonpharma Intervention Cuts Dementia Risk by a Third – Medscape (free registration required) AND Dementia breakthrough? Brain-training game ‘significantly reduces risk’ – Medical News Today (free)
“There are good reasons to be cautious about a new study claiming computer-based training can reduce the risk of dementia. But what does work?” (from The Guardian).
Why we should care that many editors of top medical journals get healthcare industry payments
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:02h | UTCOriginal article: Payments by US pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to US medical journal editors: retrospective observational study – The BMJ (free)
Research: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:56h | UTC“We develop an algorithm that can detect pneumonia from chest X-rays at a level exceeding practicing radiologists”
The Patients vs. Paperwork Problem for Doctors
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:55h | UTCThe Patients vs. Paperwork Problem for Doctors – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related guideline: Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (free)
Meta-Analysis: Effects of weight loss interventions for adults who are obese on mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:50h | UTC
Tinder and Grindr don’t want to talk about their role in rising STDs
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:44h | UTCTinder and Grindr don’t want to talk about their role in rising STDs – VOX (free)
Research: Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among Adolescents Links to Increased New Media Screen Time
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:46h | UTCCommentaries: Increased Hours Online Correlate With An Uptick In Teen Depression, Suicidal Thoughts – NPR (free) AND Smartphones a likely culprit in the recent decline in teen mental health – STAT (free)
Research: Sexual Activity as a Trigger for Sudden Cardiac Arrest
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:17h | UTCSexual Activity as a Trigger for Sudden Cardiac Arrest – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Sex poses little risk of triggering sudden cardiac arrest – Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, via EurekAlert (free) AND Instances of cardiac arrest after sex are low, but so are the survival rates – Cardiovascular Business (free)
Research: Risks for blood clot in a vein may rise with increased TV viewing
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:14h | UTCCommentary: More TV viewing linked to higher risk of blood clots in veins – Medical News Today (free)
Research: Nut Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:13h | UTCNut Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (free)
Commentary: Eating Regular Variety of Nuts Associated With Lower Risk of Heart Disease – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Variety of nuts tied to lower risk of heart disease – Reuters (free)
White Smoke From the Vatican? Not From Cigarettes
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:06h | UTCWhite Smoke From the Vatican? Not From Cigarettes – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related: No more Holy Smokes – Vatican bans sale of cigarettes – Reuters (free) AND Holy smoke: Vatican bans duty-free cigarette sales – BBC (free)
“WHO welcomes the Vatican’s decision to ban the sale of cigarettes as of next year. Tobacco kills more than 7 million people every year” (RT @WHO see Tweet)
Research: Circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of seven cancers
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:04h | UTCCommentary: Vitamin D level not associated with cancer risk – Clinical Adviser (free)
“These results, in combination with previous literature, provide evidence that population-wide screening for vitamin D deficiency and subsequent widespread vitamin D supplementation should not currently be recommended as a strategy for primary cancer prevention”.
Opinion: The case against hospital beds
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:18h | UTCThe case against hospital beds – Politico (free)
Research: Regeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:19h | UTCRegeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells – Nature (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: A Dying Boy Gets a New, Gene-Corrected Skin – The Atlantic (free) Gene Therapy Creates Replacement Skin to Save a Dying Boy – The New York Times (free) AND ‘Extraordinary’ tale: Stem cells heal a young boy’s lethal skin disease – STAT (free) AND Scientists grow replacement skin for boy suffering devastating genetic disorder – The Guardian (free) Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy – Associated Press (free)
Viewpoint: Placebo Effect of the Heart
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:14h | UTCViewpoint: Placebo Effect of the Heart – The Atlantic (free)
Related viewpoints: 12 Seconds of Placebo – An Outsider’s View of ORBITA – The HealthCare Blog (free) AND ORBITA Trial Puts Interventional Cardiologists On The Defensive – Cardiobrief (free) AND ORBITA: Another clinical trial demonstrating the need for sham controls in surgical trials – Science-Based Medicine (free) AND Coronary Stents Humbled Yet Again in Stable CAD – Medscape (free)
See original ORBITA trial and commentaries in our November 3rd issue (see #1)
Research: Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV-negative persons with partners living with HIV
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:17h | UTC