Fri, April 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Evaluation and Management of Right-Sided Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

Commentary: Taking the Good With the Bad – Assigning Value and Blame to the Right Heart in Cardiovascular Disease (free)

Top Ten Things to Know: Evaluation and Management of Right-Sided Heart Failure (free PDF)

2 – Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: the revised Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative 2018 – World Health Organization, UNICEF (free)

News release: WHO and UNICEF issue new guidance to promote breastfeeding in health facilities globally (free)

Related guideline: Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services – World Health Organization (free)

Commentary: Hospitals must support breastfeeding which saves lives – WHO, UNICEF – Reuters (free)

3 – Systemic Antibiotics for the Treatment of Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Annals of Emergency Medicine (free)

Commentary: Meta-Analysis Favors Antibiotics After Drainage of Skin Abscesses – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

See related guideline with infographic: Antibiotics after incision and drainage for uncomplicated skin abscesses: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free) AND Meta-Analysis: Antibiotics for uncomplicated skin abscesses: systematic review and network meta-analysis – BMJ Open (free)

4 – Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Antibiotic Treatment of Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections – The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy (free)

5 – 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of Behçet’s syndrome – Annals of Rheumatic Disease (free)

Commentary: Behcet’s Syndrome: Treatment Guidelines Updated – MedPage Today (free registration required)

6 – The health, poverty, and financial consequences of a cigarette price increase among 500 million male smokers in 13 middle income countries: compartmental model study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: The benefits of taxing cigarettes in middle income countries (free)

See also: To Improve Global Health, Tax the Things that are Killing Us (free policies, articles and commentaries) AND The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs and economics (free registration required for all articles and commentaries)

7 – Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: March 2018 – eCancer News (free)

8 – Laboratory-confirmed respiratory infections as triggers for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a self-controlled case series analysis of national linked datasets from Scotland – European Respiratory Journal (free)

Commentaries: Flu and pneumonia infections increase risk of having a heart attack and stroke – European Respiratory Foundation, via Eurekalert (free) AND Do Pneumococcal and Respiratory Virus Infections Trigger Cardiovascular Morbidity? – NEJM Journal Watch (free for a limited period)

See also: related study published recently showing a similar six-fold increase in myocardial infarctions in the week following a flu diagnosis (link to abstract and commentaries).

9 – Advanced machine learning in action: identification of intracranial hemorrhage on computed tomography scans of the head with clinical workflow integration – NPJ Digital Medicine (free) (via @EricTopol see Tweet)

10 – Risk of Unnatural Mortality in People With Epilepsy – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Deaths in Epilepsy: What We Are Missing (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Patients with epilepsy have greater risk of unnatural death – OnMedica (free) AND Epilepsy Diagnosis Tied to Suicide, Accident Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required)