Daily Archives: May 16, 2018
Report: The Characteristics of Pandemic Pathogens
16 May, 2018 | 01:23h | UTCNews release: Study by center for health security identifies characteristics of microorganisms most likely to cause a global pandemic (free)
Commentaries: Is this the face of Disease X? The deadly pathogens which could cause the next global pandemic – The Telegraph (free) AND The Next Deadly Pandemic Could Be Unlike Any Threats We Know, Say Experts – Science Alert (free) AND The Next Pandemic: Forget Zika Or Ebola, Airborne Viruses Like The Flu And The Common Cold Are The Real Threat – Inquisitr (free) AND Report: Next Pandemic Will Likely Be Respiratory-Based Virus – MedPage Today (free)
Related: Are we prepared for the looming epidemic threat? (free commentaries and video)
Report: First-ever WHO List of Essential Diagnostic Tests
16 May, 2018 | 01:23h | UTCNews Release: First-ever WHO list of essential diagnostic tests to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes (free) (via @Onisillos)
Executive summary: List of Essential In Vitro Diagnostics First edition (2018) – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Review: Management of Acute Right Ventricle Failure
16 May, 2018 | 01:22h | UTCDiagnostic workup, etiologies and management of acute right ventricle failure – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Position Paper: Some Calories More Harmful Than Others
16 May, 2018 | 01:20h | UTCCommentary: Some calories more harmful than others – University of California, via EurekAlert (free)
Review: Intensive Care for Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
16 May, 2018 | 01:21h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Research: Amyloid PET Scan for Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease in Mild Cognitive Impairment
16 May, 2018 | 01:19h | UTCCommentaries: Biomarkers, PET imaging may predict cognitive decline en route to Alzheimer’s – Health Imaging (free) AND Amyloid PET Scan Can Predict Progression to Alzheimer’s in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Related Studies: Elevated Brain Amyloid and Subsequent Cognitive Decline Among Cognitively Normal Persons (link to abstract and free commentaries) AND Identifying incipient dementia individuals using machine learning and amyloid imaging (free full-text and commentaries) AND High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (link to abstract and free commentaries)
Randomized Trial: Drug-Eluting Stents vs. Bare-Metal Stents in Saphenous Vein Grafts
16 May, 2018 | 01:16h | UTCDrug-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in saphenous vein grafts: a double-blind, randomised trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Outcomes similar with DES vs. BMS in saphenous vein graft lesions – Healio (free registration required)
Study: Visual Screening Tool Improves Prediction of Developing Dementia
16 May, 2018 | 01:18h | UTCImproving Prediction of Dementia in Primary Care – Annals of Family Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Screening Tool Improves Dementia Prediction – Medscape (free registration required) AND Visual Test Could Help Predict Dementia Risk in Elders – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)
Randomized Trial: Intravesical Gemcitabine Following Resection of Suspected Low-Grade Non–Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
16 May, 2018 | 01:16h | UTCEffect of Intravesical Instillation of Gemcitabine vs Saline Immediately Following Resection of Suspected Low-Grade Non–Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer on Tumor Recurrence: SWOG S0337 Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Intravesical Gemcitabine Therapy Cuts Bladder Cancer Recurrence – MPR (free) AND Simple post-surgery step reduces bladder cancer recurrence – SWOG, via EurekAlert (free)
Perspective by Dr. Eugene Braunwald: Aortic Stenosis
16 May, 2018 | 01:14h | UTCPerspective by Dr. Eugene Braunwald: Aortic Stenosis: Then and Now – Circulation (free for a limited period)
Cohort Study: Colonoscopy Adenoma Findings and Long-term Colorectal Cancer Incidence
16 May, 2018 | 01:13h | UTCAssociation of Colonoscopy Adenoma Findings With Long-term Colorectal Cancer Incidence – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related Review: Optimizing post‐polypectomy surveillance: A practical guide for the endoscopist – Digestive Endoscopy (free) AND Optimal Colonoscopy Surveillance Interval after Polypectomy – Clinical Endoscopy (free)
Related Guidelines: Guidelines for Colonoscopy Surveillance After Screening and Polypectomy: A Consensus Update by the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer (free) AND Korean Guidelines for Postpolypectomy Colonoscopy Surveillance – Digestive Endoscopy (free) AND Colorectal cancer surveillance after index colonoscopy: Guidance from the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (free) AND Post-polypectomy colonoscopy surveillance: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Guideline (free)
Advanced adenomas seem to be associated with subsequent increased risk for colorectal cancer, but nonadvanced adenomas may not be associated with increased risk.
Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: April 2018
16 May, 2018 | 01:15h | UTCLast Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: April 2018 – eCancer News (free)
News Story: Experimental Vaccine to be Used Against New Ebola Outbreak in the DRC
16 May, 2018 | 01:11h | UTCExperimental vaccine to be used against Ebola outbreak in the DRC – STAT (free)
Related: WHO to send vaccines to fight new Ebola outbreak – NBC News (free) AND The New Ebola Outbreak Could Take ‘Three, Maybe Four’ Months to Control – The Atlantic (free)
See also: WHO News: Ebola Outbreak Declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo (free news release and commentaries)
Action Package: WHO Plan to Eliminate Trans-fatty Acids from Global Food Supply
16 May, 2018 | 01:12h | UTCNews Release: WHO plan to eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from global food supply – World Health Organization (free)
See also: REPLACE Action package: Trans Fat Free by 2023 – World Health Organization (free resources)
Commentaries: Editorial Board Opinion: The World Doesn’t Need Trans Fats – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND WHO calls for trans fats to be eliminated within five years – Reuters (free) AND Industrial trans fats must be removed from food supply, WHO says – The Guardian (free) AND The new global plan to eliminate the most harmful fat in food, explained – VOX (free)
Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – 14 May 2018
16 May, 2018 | 01:04h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 14 May 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Perspective: The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine
16 May, 2018 | 01:08h | UTCThe Burnout Crisis in American Medicine – The Atlantic (free)
Related: Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free) AND Panic, chronic anxiety and burnout: doctors at breaking point – The Guardian (free) AND To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Beyond Burnout — Redesigning Care to Restore Meaning and Sanity for Physicians – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Meta-Analysis: Complete Revascularization During Primary PCI Improve Outcomes in Patients With Multivessel Disease
16 May, 2018 | 01:09h | UTCComplete Revascularization During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Reduces Death and Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Multivessel Disease: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Randomized Trials – JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Complete Revascularization During PCI for Multivessel STEMI – American College of Cardiology (free)
Related: Meta-Analysis of Culprit-Only vs Multivessel PCI in Patients with STEMI and Multivessel Coronary Disease (link to abstract, commentaries and Cochrane Review on the subject)
Perspective: Deployment of Preventive Interventions
16 May, 2018 | 01:03h | UTCDeployment of Preventive Interventions — Time for a Paradigm Shift – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Guideline: Deprescribing Benzodiazepines
16 May, 2018 | 01:01h | UTCDeprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists – Canadian Family Physician (free) (via @Deprescribing)
Related: CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free) AND 11 Drugs You Should Seriously Consider Deprescribing – Medscape Slideshow (free registration required) AND Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
Viewpoint: Headline vs. Study
16 May, 2018 | 01:02h | UTCHeadline vs. study: Sometimes fishy, sometimes pulling a rabbit out of a hat – Health News Review (free)
Report: Anesthesia, Surgery and Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions
16 May, 2018 | 00:59h | UTCNAP6 Report: Anaesthesia, Surgery and Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions: Report and findings of the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ 6th National Audit Project (free PDF)
News Release: RCoA undertakes largest ever study of anaphylaxis in anaesthesia and surgery (free)
Infographic: Anaesthesia, Surgery and Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions (free PDF)
“The study found teicoplanin is 17-fold more likely to cause anaphylaxis than penicillin and similar drugs. As 90 per cent of patients who report penicillin allergy are in fact not allergic, better identification of true allergy would reduce risk”. (from News Release)
Guideline: Screening for Impaired Vision in Adults Aged 65 years and Older
16 May, 2018 | 00:57h | UTCSee also: Summary of recommendations for clinicians and policy-makers (free)
Commentaries: Screening for impaired vision in older adults: New Canadian guideline – Canadian Medical Association Journal, via EurekAlert (free) Canadian Guideline Recommends Against Vision Screening of Older Adults in Primary Care Settings – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)
Case Control Study: Oral Antibiotic Exposure and Kidney Stone Disease
16 May, 2018 | 00:56h | UTCOral Antibiotic Exposure and Kidney Stone Disease – Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Study suggests oral antibiotics may increase kidney stone risk – CIDRAP (free) AND Antibiotics May Raise the Risk for Kidney Stones – The New York Times (free) AND Oral Antibiotics May Raise Risk of Kidney Stones – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, via NewsWise (free)
Viewpoint: Management Reasoning
16 May, 2018 | 00:55h | UTCManagement Reasoning: Beyond the Diagnosis – JAMA (free for a limited Period)
Meta-Analysis: Resistance Exercise for Depressive Symptoms
16 May, 2018 | 00:54h | UTCAssociation of Efficacy of Resistance Exercise Training With Depressive Symptoms: Meta-analysis and Meta-regression Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Resistance Exercise Might Improve Depression Symptoms – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Resistance exercise may reduce depressive symptoms in adults – MedicalXpress (free) AND Resistance Exercise Training May Alleviate Some Depressive Symptoms – MedicalResearch.com (free)