Daily Archives: October 30, 2018

Tue, October 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!

30 Oct, 2018 | 01:15h | UTC

 

1 – Report: Air pollution and child health: prescribing clean air – World Health Organization (free)

Commentaries: WHO says air pollution kills 600,000 children every year – Reuters (free) AND 90% of world’s children are breathing toxic air, WHO study finds – The Guardian (free)

Related: How air pollution is destroying our health – World Health Organization (free) AND Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head – The Guardian (free)

 

2 – Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures for Weight Loss: A PCORnet Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures for Weight Loss – Annals of Internal Medicine (free) AND Gastric bypass surgery associated with greater weight loss in adults – Kaiser Permanente (free)

 

3 – Modernized Classification of Cardiac Antiarrhythmic Drugs – Circulation (free)

 

4 – Drug-Induced Interstitial Lung Disease: A Systematic Review – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free)

Commentary: Drugs’ side effects in lungs ‘more widespread than thought’ – The University of Manchester (free)

 

5 – Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 29 October 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 

6 – Podcast: #122 Headaches Advanced Class: Migraines, medication overuse, and more! – Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free audio and summary)

 

7 – What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’ – Science (free)

Related: A huge database of scientific retractions is live. That’s great for science. – VOX (free)

 

8 – Benefits and Harms of Antihypertensive Treatment in Low-Risk Patients With Mild Hypertension – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Treatment for moderately high blood pressure may be best saved for those at high risk – University of Cambridge (free) AND Study Questions Whether Treating Mild Hypertension Benefits Patients – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

 

9 – European position paper on the management of patients with patent foramen ovale. General approach and left circulation thromboembolism – European Heart Journal (free)

Related: Patent foramen ovale closure, antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation therapy alone for management of cryptogenic stroke? A clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free)

 

10 – Genetic risk, incident stroke, and the benefits of adhering to a healthy lifestyle: cohort study of 306 473 UK Biobank participants – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: A healthy lifestyle cuts stroke risk, irrespective of genetic risk – University of Cambridge (free)

 

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