Daily Archives: August 10, 2018

Fri, August 10 – 10 Stories of The Day!

10 Aug, 2018 | 02:01h | UTC

 

1 – Dietary Diversity: Implications for Obesity Prevention in Adult Populations: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

News Release: A diverse diet may not be the healthiest one (free)

Commentary: Diet Recommendations for Obesity Prevention: Time to Ditch Diversity (free)

Top Ten Things to Know: Dietary Diversity: Implications for Obesity Prevention in Adult Populations (free PDF)

 

2 – Opioid prescribing decreases after learning of a patient’s fatal overdose – Science (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Notification of patient overdose deaths reduces clinician opioid prescriptions – NIH News Releases (free) AND Clinicians were told their patient had died of an overdose. Then opioid prescribing dropped – STAT (free)

 

3 – Comparative efficacy and tolerability of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis – The Lancet Psychiatry (free)

Commentaries: Refining treatment choices for ADHD – The Lancet Psychiatry (free) AND ADHD medications: Of all available drugs, methylphenidate should be first option for short-term treatment in children – ScienceDaily (free) AND Analysis of ADHD Drugs: Use Methylphenidate in Kids, Amphetamines in Adults – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Related: Cochrane Review: Adverse Events of Methylphenidate for ADHD in Children and Adolescents (link to abstract and free summary) AND Short Review: Stimulants for ADHD in children (free) AND Opinion: Drug treatment of ADHD – tenuous scientific basis (free)

 

4 – Viewpoint: Clinical Practice Guidelines: What’s Next? – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 

5 – Urinary sodium excretion, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and mortality: a community-level prospective epidemiological cohort study – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Lancet Paper Adds To Evidence That Reducing Salt To Very Low Levels May Be Dangerous – CardioBrief (free)

Related Report: Salt intake and Cardiovascular Disease (free report and commentaries)

 

6 – Are the “Best Buys” for Alcohol Control Still Valid? An Update on the Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Strategies at the Global Level – Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (free)

Commentary: Higher alcohol taxes are cost-effective in reducing alcohol harms – ScienceDaily (free)

Related: To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times (free policies, articles and commentaries) AND Policy lessons from health taxes (free research and commentaries)

 

7 – Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Women: A Systematic Review Update – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (free)

See also: Full Report (free PDF)

 

8 – Scaled deployment of Wolbachia to protect the community from Aedes transmitted arboviruses – Gates Open Research (free)

Commentary: Dengue rates plummet in Australian city after release of modified mosquitoes – Nature News (free)

 

9 – Disease Outbreak News: Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo – World Health Organization (free)

Related: DRC probes more suspected Ebola cases, rules out 3 – CIDRAP (free) AND War zone complicates roll-out of Ebola vaccine in latest outbreak – Nature News (free)

 

10 – Association of Endometrial Cancer Risk With Postmenopausal Bleeding in Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: How common is endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding? – eCancer News (free) AND Postmenopausal Bleeding: Reliable Sign of Endometrial Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)

 

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