Daily Archives: December 14, 2017
Thu, December 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!
14 Dec, 2017 | 01:25h | UTC
1 – The BMJ Christmas Issue – “The soul of the Christmas issue is originality. We don’t want to publish anything that resembles anything we’ve published before” (see details).
Original Article 1: Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources? (free) AND Commentary: Peppa Pig might inspire unrealistic expectations of GPs – OnMedica (free)
Original Article 2 The science behind “man flu” (free) AND Commentary: Of mice and “man flu” – HealthNewsReview (free)
See also: The top six BMJ Christmas papers – Medical News Today (free) AND The BMJ Holiday Issue: Rain Doesn’t Mean More Joint Pain; Wine Glasses Getting Bigger – Physician’s First Watch (free)
3 – Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: A ‘Game Changer’ for Patients With Irregular Heart Rhythm – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“The use of stereotactic radiotherapy in five patients with refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) showed a 99.9% reduction in VT burden”. (via @NEJM see Tweet with infographic)
5 – AAFP Decides to Not Endorse AHA/ACC Hypertension Guideline – American Academy of Family Physicians (free) (via @kennylinafp see Tweet)
Commentary: New Hypertension Guideline: A Case of Guideline Creep? – Medscape (free registration required)
6 – Artificial Intelligence Promising for CA, Retinopathy Diagnoses – Physician’s Weekly (free)
Original Article 1: Diagnostic Assessment of Deep Learning Algorithms for Detection of Lymph Node Metastases in Women With Breast Cancer – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentary: Findings Show Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence in Detecting Spread of Breast Cancer – The JAMA Network (free)
Original Article 2: Development and Validation of a Deep Learning System for Diabetic Retinopathy and Related Eye Diseases Using Retinal Images From Multiethnic Populations With Diabetes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentary: Artificial Intelligence Detects Diabetic Retinopathy and Related Eye Diseases among Patients with Diabetes – The JAMA Network (free)
7 – People Don’t Take Their Pills. Only One Thing Seems to Help. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“High-tech approaches and “reminder” packaging don’t work well. Reducing prices does”.
8 – Supplement: The Economics of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease – American Journal of Preventive Medicine (free editorials, reviews and research articles)
Source: EvidenceAlerts
9 – Phone Addiction Is Real — And So Are Its Mental Health Risks – Forbes (free)
Related commentaries: We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones – TIME (free) AND Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic (free) How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds – The Wall Street Journal (a few articles per month are free)
10 – Atraumatic versus conventional lumbar puncture needles: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Atraumatic needles associated with fewer side effects for lumbar puncture – ACP Hospitalist Weekly (free) AND Atraumatic Lumbar Puncture Needles Show Major Benefit in Meta-Analysis – Physician’s First Watch (free)