Global & Public Health (all articles)
Research: An Examination of Drivers’ Distractions, Causes, and Potential Interventions
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:10h | UTCCommentaries: Young Men, Frequent Drivers Most Likely To Get Distracted While Driving – NPR (free) AND Risk of distracted driving predicted by age, gender, personality and driving frequency – MedicalXpress (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)
Exploring Attributes of High-Value Primary Care
20 Nov, 2017 | 18:06h | UTCExploring Attributes of High-Value Primary Care – Annals of Family Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Lower cost, higher quality primary care practices are distinguished by six attributes – American Academy of Family Physicians, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Identifying ‘high-value’ practices in primary care; a Stanford study pinpoints key attributes – Stanford Medicine (free)
Guideline – Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:58h | UTCSummary: Periodic preventive health visits: A more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services (free)
News release: Annual checkups do not result in better health outcomes, national task force reaffirms (free)
Review: Health Effects and Public Health Concerns of Energy Drink Consumption
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:53h | UTCCommentaries: Serious health risks associated with energy drinks – ScienceDaily (free)
“To curb this growing public health issue, policy makers should regulate sales and marketing towards children and adolescents and set upper limits on caffeine” (from ScienceDaily)
World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017: A round up of Cochrane evidence
20 Nov, 2017 | 17:48h | UTCWorld Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017: A round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)
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)
World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:10h | UTCWorld Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017 – World Health Organization (free resources)
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)
Meta-Analysis: Exercise for the Prevention of Low Back Pain
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:05h | UTCExercise for the Prevention of Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials – American Journal of Epidemiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Exercise may help prevent low back pain or make it less severe – Reuters (free)
Related meta-analysis: Prevention of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)
Meta-Analysis: Long-term Sustainability of Diabetes Prevention Approaches
20 Nov, 2017 | 14:03h | UTCLong-term Sustainability of Diabetes Prevention Approaches: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Lifestyle Modifications Slow Progression To Diabetes As Effectively As Medications – Medical Research (free) AND Lifestyle changes successfully reduce incidence of diabetes – MedicalXpress (free) AND Lifestyle changes—not medications—linked to sustained risk reduction for diabetes – Cardiovascular Business (free)
Systematic review: The influence of physical activity, sedentary behavior on health-related quality of life among children and adolescents
14 Nov, 2017 | 20:29h | UTC
Book: Major Infectious Diseases – Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:22h | UTCBook: Major Infectious Diseases: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (free)
Press Release: Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition Launches Major Infectious Diseases Volume (free)
Previous volumes: 1 – Essential Surgery / 2 – Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health / 3 – Cancer / 4 – Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders / 5 – Injury Prevention and Environmental Health (all free)
Systematic Review: International variations in primary care physician consultation time
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:19h | UTCCommentary: Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world’s population – BMJ, via ScienceDaily (free)
“Global assessment of the length of doctor visits (primary care): range of 48 seconds to 22 minutes” (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)
Research: Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV-negative persons with partners living with HIV
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:17h | UTC
Research: Cardiovascular Effects of Long‐Term Exposure to Air Pollution
11 Nov, 2017 | 18:33h | UTCCommentaries: Air pollution as great a risk as hypertension, obesity, diabetes for CVD – Cardiovascular Business (free)
WHO guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:15h | UTCNews release: Stop using antibiotics in healthy animals to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance (free)
Related Article: Restricting the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals and its associations with antibiotic resistance in food-producing animals and human beings: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet Planetary Health (free) and Editorial: Antimicrobial use and resistance in animals and human beings (free)
Commentaries: WHO calls for restrictions on use of antibiotics in food animal production – STAT (free) AND WHO Moves to Contain Superbugs on the Farm – Scientific American (free) WHO calls for an end to antibiotic use in healthy animals – CIDRAP (free)
Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:06h | UTCTraumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research – The Lancet Neurology (free registration required)
Being overweight or obese is linked with heart disease even without other metabolic risk factors
11 Nov, 2017 | 18:57h | UTCBeing overweight or obese is linked with heart disease even without other metabolic risk factors – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Separate and combined associations of obesity and metabolic health with coronary heart disease: a pan-European case-cohort analysis – European Heart Journal (free)
Consensus Statement: Pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects
11 Nov, 2017 | 18:33h | UTCCommentaries: All babies in Europe should be screened for heart defects at birth – OnMedica (free) AND Call for Europe-wide screening of babies for heart defects – MedicalXpress (free)
Draft Recommendation: Screening Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:12h | UTCCommentary: New USPSTF Draft Recommendations for Osteoporosis Screening – Medscape (free registration required)
Meta-analysis – Tranexamic acid: is it about time?
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:14h | UTCCommentaries: Tranexamic acid: is it about time? – The Lancet (free) Rapid use of blood drug could save thousands of lives, study finds – The Guardian (free) AND Severely bleeding patients must receive lifesaving drug within minutes, not hours – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, via EurekAlert (free)
Guidelines Synopsis: Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:06h | UTCClinical Guidelines Synopsis: Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – JAMA (free)
Original Guideline: GOLD 2017 Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD (free PDF)
Related Guidelines: Final Recommendation Statement: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free) AND Diagnosis and Management of Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline Update from the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, and European Respiratory Society (free)
Meta-analysis: Comparisons of Interventions for Preventing Falls in Older Adults
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:09h | UTCComparisons of Interventions for Preventing Falls in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Exercise, Vision Testing and Osteoporosis Evaluation Are Keys To Fall Prevention – Medical Research (free) AND Exercise may be best intervention to prevent falls among elderly, according to new study – MedicalXpress (free) AND Adding other therapy to exercise may be best for fall prevention – Reuters (free) AND How to Prevent Falls in Older Adults – Consumer Reports (free)
Alcohol and Cancer: A Statement of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:08h | UTCCommentaries: Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Cutting back on alcohol can prevent cancers: experts – Reuters (free) ASCO links alcohol to cancer, calls for reduced consumption – eCancer News (free)