Daily Archives: August 7, 2018

Tue, August 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

7 Aug, 2018 | 02:42h | UTC

 

1 – Sedentary Behaviors in Today’s Youth: Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

News release: New tools, old rules: limit screen-based recreational media at home – AHA/ASA Newsroom (free)

 

2 – Primary Biliary Cholangitis: 2018 Practice Guidance from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases – Hepatology (free)

 

3 – AGO Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Early Breast Cancer: Update 2018 – German Gynecological Oncology Group (free)

 

4 – AGO Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer: Update 2018 – German Gynecological Oncology Group (free)

 

5 – Patient–physician gender concordance and increased mortality among female heart attack patients – PNAS (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks If Treated by Female Doctors – The Atlantic (free) AND Women survive a heart attack more often when their doctor is female, study finds – STAT (free) AND Women survive heart attacks better with women doctors – Washington University in St. Louis, via ScienceDaily (free)

 

6 – Review: Oxygen Treatment in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine – Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (free)

 

7 – Review: Liver enzymes: No trivial elevations, even if asymptomatic – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)

 

8 – Opinion: Anti-Vaccine Activists Have Taken Vaccine Science Hostage – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

“Should researchers not publish findings when there’s a chance they might be misinterpreted and scare the public?” (via @NYTHealth see Tweet)

 

9 – Red blood cell transfusion to treat or prevent complications in sickle cell disease: an overview of Cochrane reviews – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Summary: An overview of Cochrane Reviews on red blood cell transfusions to treat or prevent sickle cell disease-related complications – Cochrane Library (free)

 

10 – Microvascular Outcomes in Patients With Diabetes After Bariatric Surgery Versus Usual Care: A Matched Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Bariatric Surgery for Diabetes May Halve the Risk for Microvascular Disease – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Bariatric surgery linked to significant reduction in microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes – MedicalXpress (free)

 

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