Daily Archives: November 25, 2017
Sugar Industry Suppressed Evidence of Health Risks of Sucrose
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:59h | UTCCommentaries: What The Industry Knew About Sugar’s Health Effects, But Didn’t Tell Us – NPR (free) AND Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Big Sugar Buried These Concerning Health Studies 50 Years Ago – ScienceAlerts (free) AND Sugar Industry Suppressed Evidence of Health Risks of Sucrose – UC San Francisco (free)
Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout
25 Nov, 2017 | 23:00h | UTCCounting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free)
Guideline: Hepatitis B Vaccination, Screening, and Linkage to Care
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:54h | UTCCommentaries: ACP, CDC issue best practice advice on HBV – ACP Internist (free) AND CDC, ACP Offer Joint Guidance on Hepatitis B Vaccination and Screening – Physician’s First Watch (free)
As Malaria Resists Treatment, Experts Warn of Global Crisis
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:58h | UTCAs Malaria Resists Treatment, Experts Warn of Global Crisis – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Research: Management of Tiny Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:53h | UTCEditorial: Leaving Tiny, Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Untreated: Why Is It So Hard? (free)
Research: Effects of Sodium Reduction and the DASH Diet in Relation to Baseline Blood Pressure
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:55h | UTCEffects of Sodium Reduction and the DASH Diet in Relation to Baseline Blood Pressure – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: DASH Diet, Sodium, and Baseline Blood Pressure – Latest in Cardiology, American College of Cardiology (free) AND Big BP Reductions When DASH Diet Combined With Low Sodium Intake – TCTMD (free)
Research: Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:50h | UTCEditorial: No benefit of arthroscopy in subacromial shoulder pain (free)
Commentaries: Common shoulder surgery may offer little pain relief – OnMedica (free) AND Is a common shoulder surgery useless? – MedicalXpress (free) AND Popular Surgery To Ease Chronic Shoulder Pain Called Into Question – NPR (free)
Research: Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:51h | UTCAssociation of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Hormonal Contraception May Increase Risk of Suicide, Study Suggests – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Oral Contraceptives Linked to Suicide – Medscape (free registration required)
Guideline for treatment of cancer pain
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:48h | UTC2017 SEOM clinical guideline for treatment of cancer pain – Clinical and Translational Oncology (free)
Research: Cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:47h | UTCCommentaries: Cancer: 42 percent of cases down to risk factors you can change – Medical News Today (free) AND Preventable Cancer Estimate Reaches 40% – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Guideline: Deprescribing antihyperglycemic agents in older persons
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:45h | UTCRelated algorithm: Antihyperglycemic deprescribing algorithm (free PDF)
See also other Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free resources)
Choosing Wisely: Six Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:46h | UTCNew Choosing Wisely Canada list: Six Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question (RT @CPhAAPhC see Tweet)
See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)
Research: Detecting hip fractures with radiologist-level performance using deep neural networks
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:43h | UTCRelated: CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning – Stanford ML Group (free)
Research: Conjoint Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension With Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease in Parents
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:42h | UTCInvited Commentary: Gestational Hypertension and Diabetes—A Major Public Health Concern (free)
Commentaries: Pregnancy-related conditions taken together leave moms — and dads — at risk – McGill University Health Centre, via EurekAlert (free) AND Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension = Huge Risk for Later Disease – Medscape (free registration required)
Research: Development and validation of a risk prediction algorithm to estimate future risk of type 2 diabetes
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:40h | UTCDevelopment and validation of QDiabetes-2018 risk prediction algorithm to estimate future risk of type 2 diabetes: cohort study – The BMJ (free) (RT @JuliaHCox see Tweet)
See QDiabetes 2018 risk calculator (free)
Guidelines Synopsis: Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:39h | UTCClinical Guidelines Synopsis: Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults – JAMA (free)
Editorial: The New 2017 ACC/AHA Guidelines “Up the Pressure” on Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension (free)
Related Viewpoint: The 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline for High Blood Pressure (free)
See original AHA/ACC Hypertension Guidelines and related resources in our November 13th issue (see #1)
Research: Direct medical costs of motorcycle crashes
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:36h | UTCDirect medical costs of motorcycle crashes in Ontario – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)
Commentaries: Motorcycle crashes cause 5 times as many deaths as car accidents, 6 times the health costs – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Motorcycle crashes are alarmingly common — and incredibly costly – STAT (free)
Research: Association between maternal sleep practices and late stillbirth
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:37h | UTCCommentary: Stillbirth risk doubled in women sleeping on their back – OnMedica (free) AND Women advised to sleep on side to help prevent stillbirth – BBC (free)
Review – Elimination of schistosomiasis: the tools required
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:35h | UTCElimination of schistosomiasis: the tools required – Infectious Diseases of Poverty (free)
Policy Statement: Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:38h | UTCPolicy Statement: Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)
News release: The AAP and the Obesity Society Address the Social and Emotional Impact of Weight Stigma on Children and Teens (free)
Commentaries: Help obese kids avoid weight stigma, doctors advise – Reuters (free) AND How Not to Talk to a Child Who Is Overweight – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Review: Current and new challenges in occupational lung diseases
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:35h | UTCCurrent and new challenges in occupational lung diseases – European Respiratory Review (free)
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 20 November 2017
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:34h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 20 November 2017 – The BMJ (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Review: Practical Considerations for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Older Adults
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:33h | UTC
Guideline: Pharmacologic management of chronic neuropathic pain
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:32h | UTCRelated article: Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)