Daily Archives: January 31, 2017
Tue, Jan 31 – Top 10 Medical News Stories
31 Jan, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC
1 – Editorial: Important Questions About Lung Cancer Screening Programs When Incidental Findings Exceed Lung Cancer Nodules by 40 to 1 – JAMA Internal Medicine (RT @EricTopol)
3 – Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in asymptomatic adults – Journal of Vascular Surgery (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)
Source: EvidenceAlerts (free resource to find articles of interest in all specialties – registration required)
This systematic review concluded that population-based screening for AAA with ultrasound in asymptomatic men aged 65 years or older reduced AAA-related mortality (42% reduction / Number needed to screen = 212) and rupture (38% reduction / number needed to screen = 200)
A study with nearly 1 million patients found that 50 per cent of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes the previous year
5 – Neglected tropical diseases are finally getting the attention they deserve – STAT News (RT @gatesfoundation)
7 – Point of View: Six myths promoted by the new surviving sepsis guidelines – PulmCrit
8 – Meeting Coverage: Zika: What Do We Know a Year Later? – MedPage Today (free registration required)
10 – Postexposure management of infectious diseases – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine