Daily Archives: February 22, 2017

Wed, Feb 22 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

22 Feb, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Costs Associated With Access Site and Same-Day Discharge Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention – JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

See also: Editorial Comment: Strengths and Limitations of Using Cost Evaluations to Inform Cardiovascular Care

Source: MedPage Today – Radial-First PCI, Same-Day Discharge Could Save Big Bucks (free registration required)

 

2 – YouTube Video – A world-renowned cardiologist: The Dietary Guidelines Are A Lie! Salim Yusuf full speech 2017 (RT @DrAseemMalhotra And @drjohnm)

Controversial, but interesting point of view

 

3 – MD Anderson Benches IBM Watson In Setback For Artificial Intelligence In Medicine – Forbes

 

4 – Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit – The New York Times (RT @RasoiniR)

 

5 – Why should we worry about conflict of interest? – Janice Boughton, MD in KevinMd.com

 

6 – 2017 Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis – Clinical Infectious Diseases

 

7 – Multidonor intensive faecal microbiota transplantation for active ulcerative colitis: a randomised placebo-controlled trial – The Lancet (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

8 – Fecal Transplantation a Potential New Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis – Physician’s First Watch

 

9 – Long-term Outcomes After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Multiple Sclerosis – JAMA Neurology

 

10 – Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for MS: Progression-Free Survival Seen in Nearly Half of Patients – Physician’s First Watch

 

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