TOP 10 Medical News Stories

Light and moderate consumption is associated with a lower risk of ischemic stroke, whereas heavy drinking increases the risk of all stroke types, with a stronger association for hemorrhagic strokes

2 – Shared Decision-Making Reduces Admissions in Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients – Physician’s First Watch

3 – Shared decision making in patients with low risk chest pain: prospective randomized pragmatic trial – The BMJ

4 – The Long-Term Benefits of Increased Aspirin Use by At-Risk Americans Aged 50 and Older – PLOS One

Increased use by high-risk older individuals could generate substantial population health benefits at a low price

5 – First hard look at Zika pregnancies finds nearly half result in miscarriage or birth defects – Science

6 – Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro: Preliminary Report – New England Journal of Medicine

7 – Medicine’s secret: Some drugs won’t help most of those who take them – Journal Sentinel

8 – Sustained enjoyment of life and mortality at older ages: analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing – The BMJ

9 – Pessimism and risk of death from coronary heart disease among middle-aged and older Finns: an eleven-year follow-up study – BMC Public Health

10 – Computed Tomography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Ischemic Heart Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Fri, Dec 16 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

16 Dec, 2016 | 00:21h | UTC

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1 – Update to the adult preventive health care schedule based on USPSTF recommendations – American Family Physician (9 page PDF)

2 – Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for cholelithiasis 2016 – Journal of Gastroenterology

3 – ‘Kangaroo care’ makes premature babies healthier and wealthier, study claims – The Guardian

4 – A year in review: The most popular medical research of 2016 – Medical News Today

5 – Why are doctors burned out? Our health care system is a complicated web – STAT News

6 – Firearm Deaths in the US and Globally, 1990-2015 – JAMA (infographic)

7 – FDA Issues Warning on Use of Sedation Drugs in Young Children, Pregnant Women – Physician’s First Watch

8 – FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA review results in new warnings about using general anesthetics and sedation drugs in young children and pregnant women

9 – Two studies highlight risk of fetal Zika damage – CIDRAP

10 – Video Summary: Acute Zika Virus Infection during Pregnancy – New England Journal of Medicine

Fri, Jan 6 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

6 Jan, 2017 | 00:16h | UTC

1 – Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States – Summary for Clinicians (PDF) NIH News Release

Contrary to past recommendations this guideline advises that children at highest risk should be exposed to peanuts as early as 4 to 6 months of age

2 – Infants should be fed peanuts to stave off allergies, say new NIH guidelines – STAT News Se also Tips for giving babies peanut-based foods to prevent allergy – STAT News

3 – Guidelines for the use of platelet transfusions – British Committee for Standards in Haematology

4 – Dementia rates ‘higher near busy roads’ – BBC News (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

This population-based cohort study suggests a link

5 – How the world got fat: a visualisation of global obesity over 40 years – The Guardian

6 – Clinical practice guideline (update): earwax (cerumen impaction) – Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery

7 – Updated Guideline to Help Docs Treat Earwax – MedPage Today

8 – How Healthcare Will Keep Pace With The Big Data Revolution – Digitalist Magazine (RT @Heart_BMJ)

9 – Efficacy and effectiveness of screen and treat policies in prevention of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of screening tests and interventions – The BMJ

10 – Preventing Type 2 Diabetes with ‘Screen & Treat’ Seen as Inadequate – Physician’s First Watch

Mon, Dec 12 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

12 Dec, 2016 | 00:24h | UTC

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1 – Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children

Source: Medscape- Tuberculosis Guidelines Emphasize Newer Diagnostic Tests (Free registration required)

2 – Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire? – The BMJ

3 – Obesity and Hunger Are Twin Crises – Takepart

4 – 18 Diseases The World Has Turned Its Back On – The Huffington Post

5 – Universal Health Coverage Day – Universal Health Coverage Coalition

6 – Universal health coverage (UHC) – World Health Organization

7 – Abuse of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids Among Men With Body Image Disorder – JAMA

8 – The 2016 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference, Shared Decision Making in the Emergency Department: Development of a Policy-relevant Patient-centered Research Agenda – Academic Emergency Medicine

9 – How epidemics take lives and bring global health into focus – AMA Wire (RT @paimadhu)

10 – Can Big Data Fulfill Its Promise? – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (Free PDF)

Mon, Dec 19 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

19 Dec, 2016 | 00:46h | UTC

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1 – WHO issues new selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use – World Health Organization

2 – Guidelines on HIV Self-Testing and Partner Notification: Supplement to Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Testing Services – World Health Organization

3 – You’re ‘Prediabetic’? Join the Club – The New York Times (RT @drjohnm)

This interesting commentary questions the labeling of people as “prediabetic” and brings up the issue of “medicalization” of individuals

4 – Hypothermia: prevention and management in adults having surgery – NICE Guideline

5 – Traditional under the tongue temperature-taking helps patients avoid hypothermia during surgery, says NICE – NICE News and Features

6 – Henry Heimlich, creator of life-saving maneuver, dies at 96 – STAT News

7 – The Week in Zika News: U.S. Birth Defect Rate, Early Exposure in Pregnancy, Viral Replication, Texas Spread – Physician’s First Watch

8 – Health impact assessment of the UK soft drinks industry levy: a comparative risk assessment modelling study – The Lancet Public Health

9 – Sugary drinks tax ‘will benefit children most’ – BBC News

10 – Time to take a sick day: working when ill is bad for you – and your company

Tue, Dec 6 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

6 Dec, 2016 | 00:13h | UTC

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1 – Nut consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer, all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies – BMC Medicine (RT @EricTopol)

Higher nut consumption seems to be associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality

3 – Clinical practice guidelines and principles of care for people with dementia in Australia (summary of the new dementia guidelines – Link to PDF)

4 – Practice guideline summary: Treatment of restless legs syndrome in adults

Source: Medscape – AAN Releases First Treatment Guideline on Restless Legs Syndrome (Free registration required)

5 – The Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) has just published a new edition of the SEOM’s Clinical Practice Guidelines

6 – The BMJ – Blog Archive – Richard Lehman’s journal review-5 December 2016

7 – Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer in individuals with previous colorectal neoplasia: systematic review and network meta-analysis – The BMJ

Low dose aspirin has the most favorable risk:benefit profile

8 – Thromboprophylaxis after Knee Arthroscopy and Lower-Leg Casting – New England Journal of Medicine

Prophylaxis with low-molecular-weight heparin was not effective in both trials

9 – Statins for Primary Prevention in Older Adults: Uncertainty and the Need for More Evidence – JAMA (RT @pascalmeier74)

10 – It’s time to overhaul the secretive peer review process – STAT News

Fri, Dec 9 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

9 Dec, 2016 | 00:30h | UTC

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1 – Meta-analysis of Egg Consumption and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke – Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Eggs are not associated with increased cardiovascular risk and may be protective against stroke

Source: Medscape – Eggs Linked to Decreased Stroke, No Increase in CHD Risk (Free registration required)

2 – Prevent HIV, test and treat all: WHO support for country impact – World Health Organization Progress Report 2016

3 – Interpreting Geographic Variations in Results of Randomized, Controlled Trials – New England Journal of Medicine

4 – End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality – Physician’s First Watch

5 – Association of End-of-Rotation Resident Transitions and Patient Mortality – JAMA (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

6 – Prolonged Zika Virus Viremia during Pregnancy – New England Journal of Medicine

7 – More data show Zika viremia in mothers, fetal infection link – CIDRAP

8 – Are we facing a noncommunicable disease pandemic? – Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

9 – Controversial impact factor gets a heavyweight rival – Nature

10 – Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability – Absolutely Maybe

Wed, Dec 14 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

14 Dec, 2016 | 00:10h | UTC

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1 – Altmetric’s top 100 research articles – 2016

Top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016

2 – Malaria control improves for vulnerable in Africa, but global progress off-track – World Health Organization

3 – World Malaria Report 2016 – World Health Organization

4 – Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic & How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst

5 – The Power of Simple Life Changes to Prevent Heart Disease – The New York Times

6 – 4 in 10 babies born after Zika infection may have brain defects – STAT News

7 – Impact of fluoroquinolone treatment on delay of tuberculosis diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases (RT @paimadhu)

8 – New Appropriate Use Criteria Issued for Managing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Knee Osteoarthritis – Physician’s First Watch

9 – Mental illness and poverty: you can’t tackle one without the other – The Guardian

10 – The Cochrane Review on portion sizes – from publication to informing policy

Mon, Dec 5 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

5 Dec, 2016 | 00:59h | UTC

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1 – WHO celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities – World Health Organization

2 – Disability and health – World Health Organization

3 – The win-win of disability inclusion – International Labour Organization

4 – Global Burden of Cancer 2015 – JAMA Oncology

5 – Cancer’s deadly toll grows in less developed countries as new cases increase globally – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

6 – Alpha blockers for treatment of ureteric stones: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ

7 – Bringing Up Baby, Helping the Economy – Scientific American

8 – A Third of People Given Antibiotics Don’t Need Them – National Geographic

9 – Antibiotics leave children ‘more likely to contract drug-resistant infections’ – The Guardian

10 – Hospital Variation in Time to Epinephrine for Non-Shockable In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – Circulation (Link to Abstract – $ Required for Full-text)

Delaying epinephrine seems to be associated with reduced survival

Wed, Dec 7 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

7 Dec, 2016 | 00:44h | UTC

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1 – Association of Long-term, Low-Intensity Smoking With Mortality – JAMA Internal Medicine

2 – Smoking even one cigarette a day on average can kill you – NBC News

3 – 27% of Medical Students Are Depressed – TIME

4 – Prevalence of Depression and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students – JAMA (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

5 – Efficacy of Oral Risperidone, Haloperidol, or Placebo for Symptoms of Delirium Among Patients in Palliative Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

Antipsychotics worsen delirium symptoms and may hasten death in palliative care (RT @IrfanDhalla)

6 – Reducing preterm birth by a state-wide multifaceted program: an implementation study

Preterm birth was reduced by 7.6% after a comprehensive and multifaceted prevention program

7 – Resuscitation update for general practitioners – Australian Family Physician

8 – Prevention and Monitoring of Cardiac Dysfunction in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline – Journal of Clinical Oncology

9 – Sleep deprivation costs the economy billions – and sends workers to an early grave – The Conversation

10 – Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Doesn’t Prevent VTE After Knee Arthroscopy or Leg Casting – Physician’s First Watch

Thu, Dec 8 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

8 Dec, 2016 | 00:09h | UTC

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1 – End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management – NICE Guideline

2 – Four steps to precision public health – Nature (RT @IHME_UW)

3 – AGS Position Statement: Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Unbefriended Older Adults – Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

4 – Frailty Screening Initiative and Postoperative Survival – JAMA Surgery (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

5 – Revised CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Health-Related Research Involving Humans – JAMA

6 – New CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines now available – Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences

7 – Public Health Interventions for Aedes Control in the Time of Zikavirus- A Meta-Review on Effectiveness of Vector Control Strategies – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (RT: @greg_folkers)

8 – Even Light Smoking Tied to Increased Mortality Risk – Physician’s First Watch

9 – Children’s Headphones May Carry Risk of Hearing Loss – The New York Times (RT @CMichaelGibson)

10 – A Handful of Nuts Is Good for Your Health – The New York Times

Mon, Nov 28 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

28 Nov, 2016 | 00:01h | UTC

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1 – New German Guideline: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Vascular Disease – Dtsch Arztebl Int

2 – Post-Truth Antidote: Our Roles in Virtuous Spirals of Trust in Science – Absolutely Maybe

3 – Flossing and the Art of Scientific Investigation – The New York Times

4 – Combined associations of body weight and lifestyle factors with all cause and cause specific mortality in men and women: prospective cohort study – The BMJ

5 – End Violence against Women – UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

6 – Violence against women – World Health Organization

7 – Canceling the Zika public health emergency was the wrong thing to do – STAT News

8 – Prediction of fluid responsiveness: an update – Annals of Intensive Care

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

9 – Health literacy can be a matter of life or death – The Conversation

10 – Why frequent dieting makes you put on weight – and what to do about it

Wed, Nov 30 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

30 Nov, 2016 | 00:01h | UTC

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1 – WHO issues new guidance on HIV self-testing ahead of World AIDS Day – World Health Organization

2 – Guidelines on HIV self-testing and partner notification – World Health Organization

3 – Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It – NPR

4 – Translating Artificial Intelligence Into Clinical Care – JAMA

5 – Artificial Intelligence: Radiologists and Pathologists as Information Specialists – JAMA

6 – Accuracy of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy – JAMA

7 – 2016 Guidelines of the Taiwan Heart Rhythm Society and the Taiwan Society of Cardiology for the management of atrial fibrillation

8 – Educational interventions for the management of cancer‐related fatigue in adults – Cochrane Library

9 – Pediatrics Group Offers Advice for Clinicians to Help Children Through Divorce – Physician’s First Watch

10 – Helping Children and Families Deal With Divorce and Separation | From the American Academy of Pediatrics

Wed, Nov 23 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

23 Nov, 2016 | 00:10h | UTC

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1 – Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management for Patients Who Undergo Noncardiac Surgery – Canadian Journal of Cardiology

2 – One Medicine? Advocating (Inter) disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health, and the Environment – Rutgers University Press [2016]

3 – Patient Safety in Ambulatory Settings – PubMed – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US) [2016]

4 – Thiazide Diuretic Tied to Lower Fracture Risk Than Other Antihypertensive Drugs – Physician’s First Watch

5 – Palliative Care and Patient and Caregiver Outcomes – JAMA (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

6 – Palliative care linked to better, if not longer, life – Reuters Health

7 – Homeopathy officially doesn’t work according to the US government – The Independent

8 – Crappy water and the science of sanitation: Stunting, death and malnutrition: why contaminated water has far more serious effects than the odd bout of diarrhoea

9 – Non-medical prescribing versus medical prescribing for acute and chronic disease management in primary and secondary care – The Cochrane Library

10 – Stand firm on hormone disruptors: Ahead of a key meeting on endocrine-disrupting chemicals, Leonardo Trasande argues that policy must follow the science – Nature | Column: World View

Fri, Dec 2 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

2 Dec, 2016 | 00:01h | UTC

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1 – Editorial: Preventing HIV among Women – A Step Forward, but Much Farther to Go – New England Journal of Medicine

2 – Quick Take Video Summary: The Ring Study and the ASPIRE Study – New England Journal of Medicine

3 – Safety and Efficacy of a Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention in Women – New England Journal of Medicine

4 – Use of a Vaginal Ring Containing Dapivirine for HIV-1 Prevention in Women – New England Journal of Medicine

5 – Association between screening and the thyroid cancer ‘epidemic’ in South Korea: evidence from a nationwide study – The BMJ

6 – Editorial: Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer – The BMJ

7 – Testosterone treatment and risk of venous thromboembolism: population based case-control study – The BMJ

8 – VTE Risk Elevated in First Months of Testosterone Therapy – Physician’s First Watch

9 – Cardiologists Weigh in on Big Data’s Role in Health Care – American College of Cardiology commentary

10 – Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Heart Failure Readmissions – Circulation

Thu, Dec 1 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

1 Dec, 2016 | 00:01h | UTC

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1 – Chest pain of recent onset: assessment and diagnosis – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline

2 – Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline

3 – Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline

4 – Contributory Risk and Management of Comorbidities of Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Hyperlipidemia, and Metabolic Syndrome in Chronic Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

5 – Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Metabolic Syndrome in Heart Failure – American College of Cardiology commentary

6 – Associations of specific types of sports and exercise with all-cause and cardiovascular-disease mortality: a cohort study of 80 306 British adults – British Journal of Sports Medicine

7 – Swimming, Racquet Sports, and Aerobics Tied to Better Survival – Physician’s First Watch

8 – Pronounced increase in risk of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in younger smokers – Heart

9 – When will we learn that smoking is bad? – Heart

10 – Young Smokers Have Eight Times the MI Risk as Nonsmokers – Physician’s First Watch

Thu, Nov 24 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

24 Nov, 2016 | 00:01h | UTC

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1 – WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Genital Herpes Simplex Virus – World Health Organization

2 – Strategizing national health in the 21st century: a handbook – World Health Organization

3 – Nurses’ Health Study Turns 40 – JAMA

4 – Description of 13 Infants Born During October 2015-January 2016 With Congenital Zika Virus Infection Without Microcephaly at Birth – Brazil – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

5 – Zika brain damage can evolve after birth, study finds – CIDRAP

6 – Dedicated Postdischarge Follow-up Visit and 30-Day Readmission Risk – JAMA Internal Medicine Research Letter

7 – Bedside lung ultrasound may help in diagnosing pneumonia – ACP Hospitalist

8 – Richard Lehman: Pre-diabetes: can prevention come too soon? – The BMJ Blog Archive

9 – Cardiovascular Safety of Celecoxib, Naproxen, or Ibuprofen for Arthritis – New England Journal of Medicine

10 – The power of big data must be harnessed for medical progress – Nature News (RT @EricTopol)

Tue, Nov 29 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

29 Nov, 2016 | 00:34h | UTC

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1 – Opening remarks at the Emergency medical teams global meeting – World Health Organization

2 – Emergency Medical Teams and World Health Organization – EMT Initiative booklet

3 – Timing of Invasive Strategy in NSTE-ACS and Outcomes – American College of Cardiology commentary

4 – Claims for fertility interventions: a systematic assessment of statements on UK fertility centre websites – BMJ Open

5 – No solid evidence’ for IVF add-on success – BBC News

6 – Meta-Analysis Supports Lower Prediabetes Cutoff – Physician’s First Watch

7 – Dietary protein intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study and a meta-analysis of prospective studies – F1000Prime commentary

8 – Richard Lehman’s journal review-28 November 2016 – The BMJ Blog Archive

9 – Does psychiatry need to join the personalized medicine party? – STAT News

10 – For a Sprained Ankle, Physical Therapy No Better Than Self Care – The New York Times

Fri, Nov 25 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

25 Nov, 2016 | 00:01h | UTC

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1 – Intake of individual saturated fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease in US men and women: two prospective longitudinal cohort studies – The BMJ

2 – Editorial: Saturated fat and heart disease – The BMJ

3 – Should adults take vitamin D supplements to prevent disease? – The BMJ

4 – Association between prediabetes and risk of cardiovascular disease and all cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ

5 – Child Mortality – Our World in Data

6 – Deprescribing guidelines for the elderly – OPEN: Ontario Pharmacy Research Collaboration

7 – Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding – The Cochrane Library

8 – Junk food could disrupt children’s brain development – World Economic Forum

9 – This new study may explain why peer review in science often fails – VOX

10 – Images in Clinical Medicine: Large Hiatal Hernia – New England Journal of Medicine

Thu, Nov 17 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

17 Nov, 2016 | 00:10h | UTC

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1 – Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants – The Lancet

3 – More than 1 billion people have high blood pressure – CNN

4 – True value-based care is a trillion-dollar unicorn for the health care industry – STAT News

5 – CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time – Nature News

6 – A History of Transgender Healthcare – Scientific American

7 – #WorldCOPDday – Fact Sheet: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – World Health Organization

8 – #WorldCOPDday Special collection – World COPD Day – The Cochrane Library

9 – Calcium Intake From Diet and Supplements and the Risk of Coronary Artery Calcification and its Progression Among Older Adults: 10‐Year Follow‐up of the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) – Journal of The American Heart Association

10 – Another Dietary Supplement To Avoid: Calcium – Forbes

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