Daily Archives: August 2, 2017
Wed, August 2 – 10 Stories of The Day!
2 Aug, 2017 | 00:10h | UTC
1 – Breastfeeding Week Reports: Tracking Progress for Breastfeeding Policies and Programmes: Global breastfeeding scorecard 2017 – World Health Organization, UNICEF (free PDF) AND Nurturing the Health and Wealth of Nations: The Investment Case for Breastfeeding – World Health Organization, UNICEF (free PDF)
News release: Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding – World Health Organization (free)
See also: UNICEF page on breastfeeding (free)
New analysis shows an investment of US$4.70 per newborn could generate US$300 billion in economic gains by 2025.
2 – New Series from the Lancet journals: Fungal Infections – Lancet Infectious Diseases (RT @Onisillos see Tweet)
Comment: Recovery from serious fungal infections should be realisable for everyone (free registration required)
– Fungal infections in HIV/AIDS (free registration required)
– Candida and invasive mould diseases in non-neutropenic critically ill patients and patients with haematological cancer (free registration required)
– Emerging issues, challenges, and changing epidemiology of fungal disease outbreaks (free registration required)
– Pulmonary and sinus fungal diseases in non-immunocompromised patients (free registration required)
– Improvement of fungal disease identification and management: combined health systems and public health approaches (free registration required)
– The global problem of antifungal resistance: prevalence, mechanisms, and management (free registration required)
– Immunotherapeutic approaches to treatment of fungal diseases (free registration required)
– Neglected endemic mycoses (free registration required)
“This Series of eight reports brings readers up to date on fungal infections and addresses how fungal infection management can be integrated into health systems in low-income and middle-income countries”
3 – New Online Calculator: The Smart Risk Score – European Society of Cardiology (RT @JGrapsa see Tweet)
“The SMART Risk Score is a tool to estimate 10-year risk for recurrent vascular events in patients with manifest cardiovascular disease”
4 – Guideline: Intrapartum Management of Intraamniotic Infection – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) (free)
Commentary: Guidelines on Intraamniotic Infection Released by ACOG – Medscape (free registration required)
5 – Predicting Risk of Serious Bacterial Infections in Febrile Children in the Emergency Department – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: UK researchers fine-tune diagnostic tool for serious bacterial infections – CIDRAP (free) AND Clinical and biomarker-based diagnostic model identifies serious bacterial infections – 2 Minute Medicine (free)
6 – Report: The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Shifting the Focus to Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)
7 – Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Readiness for Global Pandemic – New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Original Report: From panic and neglect to investing in health security : financing pandemic preparedness at a national level – The World Bank (free PDF)
8 – Periodontal Disease and Incident Cancer Risk among Postmenopausal Women: Results from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Cohort – Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Gum infections linked to several cancers in women – Reuters (free)
9 – A surprising amount of medical research isn’t made public. That’s dangerous – VOX (free)
“When the results of clinical trials aren’t made public, the consequences can be dangerous — and potentially deadly” (RT @Students4BE see Tweet)
Editorial: A Call for Social Responsibility and Suicide Risk Screening, Prevention, and Early Intervention Following the Release of the Netflix Series “13 Reasons Why” (free)
Commentaries: ‘13 Reasons Why’ might have triggered suicide searches online – STAT News (free) AND Is ’13 Reasons Why’ Helping Kids Kill Themselves? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Google Searches on Suicide Surge After ’13 Reasons Why’ Release: Study – Newsweek (free) Suicide-Related Internet Searches Elevated After Debut of “13 Reasons Why” – Physician’s First Watch (free)