Daily Archives: November 13, 2018

Tue, November 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

13 Nov, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans – JAMA (free)

Editorial: New Physical Activity Guidelines: A Call to Activity for Clinicians and Patients (free)

Video Summary: Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition (free)

Commentaries: New Physical Activity Guidelines Urge Americans: Move More, Sit Less – NPR (free) AND HHS Releases Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition – U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (free)

 

2 – Withdrawal of pharmacological treatment for heart failure in patients with recovered dilated cardiomyopathy (TRED-HF): an open-label, pilot, randomised trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Stopping medication for heart failure with improved ejection fraction – The Lancet (free) AND Remission, Not Cure: No Weaning Off Meds for Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients, Says TRED-HF – TCTMD (free) AND Drug Withdrawal Inadvisable in ‘Recovered’ Dilated Cardiomyopathy – Medscape (free registration required)

 

3 – Randomized Trial of Endoscopic or Open Vein-Graft Harvesting for Coronary-Artery Bypass – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Endoscopic Vein-Graft Harvest for CABG Associated With Similar MACE, Less Pain vs Open Procedure: REGROUP – TCTMD (free) AND AHA: Endoscopic Vein-Graft Harvesting Redeems Itself in CABG – MedPage Today (free)

 

4 – Perspective: Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

 

5 – Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 12 November 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

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

 

6 – Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali – The Health Care Blog (free)

 

7 – The Misunderstood Coagulopathy of Liver Disease: A Review for the Acute Setting – West Journal of Emergency Medicine (free)

 

8 – WHO Report on Surveillance of Antibiotic Consumption: 2016 – 2018 Early implementation – World Health Organization (free)

Commentary: WHO uncovers big national variations in antibiotics consumption – Reuters (free)

 

9 – SGLT2 inhibitors for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular and renal outcomes in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cardiovascular outcome trials – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: SGLT2 Inhibitors and CV and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes – American College of Cardiology (free)

 

10 – Risk of Malignant Ovarian Cancer Based on Ultrasonography Findings in a Large Unselected Population – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Most simple ovarian cysts require no treatment, surveillance – UPI (free) AND Less surveillance needed for simple ovarian cysts – University of California, San Francisco (free)

“New study finds that simple cysts should be considered normal and ignored” (from The University of California)

 

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