Daily Archives: October 26, 2016

Wed, Oct 26 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

26 Oct, 2016 | 20:45h | UTC

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1 – Just Released! New advice from Choosing Wisely UK features a list of > 40 treatments that bring little or no benefit to patients

 

2 – USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Support Breastfeeding – JAMA

 

3 – Lack of Evidence Linking Calcium With or Without Vitamin D Supplementation to Cardiovascular Disease in Generally Healthy Adults: A Clinical Guideline From the National Osteoporosis Foundation and the American Society for Preventive Cardiology

 

4 – CMV Is a Greater Threat to Infants Than Zika, but Far Less Often Discussed – The New York Times

 

5 – Your Patient Is Now Reading Your Note: Opportunities, Problems, and Prospects – The American Journal of Medicine (@EricTopol)

 

6 – How hospital sinks became a health problem – STAT News

 

7 – Prevention of Cardiomyopathy in Patients With Cancer – American College of Cardiology

 

8 – Diagnosis and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease: recommendations of the Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología

 

9 – Five-Year Outcomes after Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting – New England Journal of Medicine

(The outcomes were similar among patients who underwent off-pump CABG and those who underwent on-pump CABG)

 

10 – Antipsychotic use and risk of hospitalisation or death due to pneumonia in persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease – CHEST (link to abstract – $$$ required for full-text)

 

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