Daily Archives: May 7, 2018

Mon, May 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

7 May, 2018 | 00:29h | UTC

 

1 – SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, 5 May 2018 – World Health Organization Campaign (free guidelines, implementation tools, infographics, videos and more)

“It’s in your hands – prevent sepsis in health care”

 

2 – Consensus statement for cancer patients requiring intensive care support – Annals of Hematology (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

 

3 – Comprehensive in‐hospital monitoring in acute heart failure: applications for clinical practice and future directions for research. A statement from the Acute Heart Failure Committee of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) – European Journal of Heart Failure (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

 

4 – A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

“It’s the biggest health crisis you’ve never heard of. Doctors, philanthropists and companies are trying to solve it”.

 

5 – Opinion: Can we say who has died because of the breast-screening appointment error? – by David Spiegelhalter (free) (via @RichardLehman1 and @d_spiegel, see Tweet with infographic)

Related opinions: Breast cancer screening scandal must prompt review of mammograms – The Guardian (free) AND Breast cancer screening programme ‘does more harm than good’ – BBC (free) AND Did Breast Cancer Screening Error Cause Major Health Harm? – Medscape (free registration required)

 

6 – Decisions, Decisions: HMS physicians review the many factors in choosing breast cancer screenings – Harvard Medical School (free commentary and video) (via @tlisboa79 and @brhospitalist)

Original article: Breast Cancer Screening in 2018: Time for Shared Decision Making – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

 

7 – Don’t confuse “no evidence of a difference” with “evidence of no difference” – Students 4 Best Evidence (free)

 

8 – University of Twitter? Scientists give impromptu lecture critiquing nutrition research – CBC (free)

Related: Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public’s View of Medicine – The Health Care Blog (free) AND What’s your doctor reading? How social media is disrupting medical education – National Post (free)

 

9 – Pre-pregnancy fast food and fruit intake is associated with time to pregnancy – Human Reproduction (free)

Commentary: Women who eat fast food may take longer to get pregnant – NHS Choices (free) AND Women Who Eat Fast Food Take Longer to Become Pregnant – University of Adelaide, via NewsWise (free) AND Want to increase fertility? Try dropping fast food – CNN (free)

 

10 – Sauna bathing reduces the risk of stroke in Finnish men and women: A prospective cohort study – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Daily saunas may reduce stroke risk – NHS Choices (free) AND Can Saunas Lower Stroke Risk? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Could saunas reduce stroke risk? – Medical News Today (free)

 

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