Daily Archives: July 14, 2017

Fri, July 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!

14 Jul, 2017 | 00:08h | UTC

 

1 – Follow-up of Prostatectomy versus Observation for Early Prostate Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Long-term, surgery for localized prostate cancer offers little extra benefit – Reuters (free) AND No Benefit with Surgery for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Prostatectomy for Localized Prostate Cancer Doesn’t Improve Long-Term Survival – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Surgery for Early Prostate Cancer May Not Save Lives – Washington University in St. Louis, via NewsWise (free)

“Most men just as likely to survive with limited or no treatment” (from NewsWise)

 

2 – Clinical Practice Guidelines for Enhanced Recovery After Colon and Rectal Surgery From the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (free)

See other Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Guidelines and Reviews in our collection and in the ERAS Society Website.

 

3 – Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adrenal Incidentaloma – Endocrinology and Metabolism (free)

 

4 – Association of Changes in Diet Quality with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Improvement in diet quality linked to decreased all-cause mortality – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Improving Diet Over Time May Reduce Risk of Death – MedPage Today (free registration required) Change in Diet Can Lower Mortality Risk – Medscape (free registration required) AND Eating a Little Bit Healthier Helps You Live Longer – TIME (free) AND A Range of Healthy Dietary Changes Could Help You Live Longer – Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

5 – Insulin pumps not much better than multiple injections for intensive control of type 1 diabetes – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Relative effectiveness of insulin pump treatment over multiple daily injections and structured education during flexible intensive insulin treatment for type 1 diabetes: cluster randomised trial (REPOSE) – The BMJ (free)

 

6 – Editorial: WHO downgrades status of oseltamivir – The BMJ (free)

“@WHO downgrades status of oseltamivir. BMJ editorial discusses important lessons from the Tamiflu story” (RT @bmj_latest  see Tweet)

 

7 – Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Pediatric Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (free)

 

8 – Enuresis: practical guidelines for primary care – British Journal of General Practice (free)

 

9 – Non-invasive ventilation for the management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure due to exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Cochrane Library (free)

NIV reduces mortality and endotracheal intubation in patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure secondary to an acute exacerbation COPD.

 

10 – Perspectives: Threats to Information Security: Public Health Implications – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

See related articles on Cybersecurity and Health in our June 8^th issue (see #5)

 

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