Daily Archives: August 15, 2018
Wed, August 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!
15 Aug, 2018 | 02:32h | UTC
1 – State of the Art Review: Overdiagnosis in primary care: framing the problem and finding solutions – The BMJ (free for two weeks)
2 – Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations – Nature Genetics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, ScienceDaily (free) AND Clues to Your Health Are Hidden at 6.6 Million Spots in Your DNA – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Multi-gene test may find risk for heart disease and more – Associated Press (free) AND A Harvard Scientist Thinks He Has a Gene Test for Heart Attack Risk. He Wants to Give It Away Free – Forbes (free)
3 – Fixed Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypertension in Sri Lanka: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Video Summary: Fixed-Dose Combination Pill for Hypertension Treatment in Sri Lanka (free)
Commentaries: Three-in-one pill lowers blood pressure significantly, study say – UPI (free) AND Innovative triple pill significantly lowers blood pressure, study finds – George Institute for Global Health, via EurekAlert (free)
4 – Richard Smith: The polypill and the long journey to major impact – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Related Reviews: Strengths and Limitations of Using the Polypill in Cardiovascular Prevention – Current Cardiology Reports (free) AND The polypill approach – An innovative strategy to improve cardiovascular health in Europe – BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology (free)
6 – Opinion: Lessons for physicians from ‘The Bleeding Edge’: If you see something, say something – STAT (free)
“…physicians must act decisively when they identify the rare outlier in their midst. To do anything less would risk our credibility. Worse still, it could risk the lives of the people we took an oath not to harm.”
7 – Yoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101 – Hilda Bastian, in Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)
“5 steps to unpack a randomized trial!” (via @hildabast, see Tweet)
8 – DRC Ebola cases surpass earlier outbreak total, virus infects 4 more health workers – CIDRAP (free)
Related: DRC may provide model for containing future Ebola outbreaks – The Conversation (free)
9 – Book: Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition – National Institutes of Health (free chapters)
News Release: New NIH reference book is one-stop resource for diabetes medical information – National Institutes of Health (free)
10 – Treatments for women with gestational diabetes mellitus: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews – Cochrane Library (free)