Daily Archives: June 8, 2018

Fri, June 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!

8 Jun, 2018 | 00:12h | UTC

 

1 – 2018 Expert Consensus on the Management of Adverse Effects of Antiplatelet Therapy for Acute Coronary Syndrome in Taiwan – Acta Cardiologica Sinica (free)

 

2 – Building a Great Scientific Abstract: A Quick Checklist – by Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)

 

3 – Infographic: Global Deaths Attributable to High Systolic Blood Pressure, 1990-2016 – JAMA (free)

 

4 – Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free)

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

 

5 – Doctors Scrutinize Overtreatment, As Cancer Death Rates Decline – NPR (free)

 

6 – Community-level changes in condom use and uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis by gay and bisexual men in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia: results of repeated behavioural surveillance in 2013–17 – The Lancet HIV (free registration required)

Commentaries: Uptake of PrEP coincides with less condom use – OnMedica (free) AND PrEP uptake on the rise and condom use declines in gay men – News Medical (free) AND A pill that protects people from HIV may also lead to more sex without condoms – Science (free)

Related: How PrEP to Prevent HIV May be Fueling a Rise in Other STDs (link to abstract and commentaries)

 

7 – Education and myopia: assessing the direction of causality by mendelian randomization – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Intense schooling linked to myopia (free)

Commentaries: Education and myopia: assessing the direction of causality by mendelian randomization – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Myopia could be linked to longer periods spent in education – OnMedica (free) AND Highly Educated, Very Nearsighted? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 

8 – Job strain and atrial fibrillation – Results from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health and meta-analysis of three studies – European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (free)

News Release: Stressful jobs are associated with a higher risk of heart rhythm disorders – European Society of Cardiology (free)

 

9 – Aspirin may be a follow-on option to prevent blood clots, starting five days after hip or knee surgery – NIHR Signal (free)

See Original Article: Aspirin or Rivaroxaban for VTE Prophylaxis after Hip or Knee Arthroplasty – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Quick Take Video Summary: Preventing VTE after Hip or Knee Arthroplasty (free)

 

10 – Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection) – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: UV-light cleaning shown to cut superbugs hospital-wide – CIDRAP (free)

 

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