Daily Archives: February 1, 2017
Wed, Feb 1 – Top 10 Medical News Stories
1 Feb, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC
1- Diabetic Neuropathy: A Position Statement by the American Diabetes Association
2 – Global economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases – BMJ Tobacco Control
See also from previous weeks:
Tobacco control can save billions of dollars and millions of lives – World Health Organization AND NCI Tobacco Control Monograph Series 21 – The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control – World Health Organization
3 – WHO: Global Cost of Smoking Nearly 2% of World GDP: Around 40% of cost now borne by middle- and low-income countries – MedPage Today (free registration required)
4 – Critical Care Reviews Book 2017 is now online (Free PDF)
5 – Allocation of Internal Medicine Resident Time in a Swiss Hospital – Annals of Internal Medicine (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)
6 – Swiss Residents Spend 3x More Time with Keyboards than with Patients – MedPage Today (free registration required)
9 – Viewpoint: Hypertension in 2017—What Is the Right Target? – JAMA
10 – Intensive BP-Lowering Reduces CV Events in Elders – Physician’s First Watch