Fri, August 3 – 10 Stories of The Day!
3 Aug, 2018 | 00:22h | UTC
4 – The Top 10 Pulmonary Pearls for Primary Care Physicians – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free for a limited period)
5 – Cardiovascular and Other Health Benefits of Sauna Bathing: A Review of the Evidence – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Regular sauna users may have fewer chronic diseases – Reuters (free) AND Saunas Linked to Numerous Health Benefits – Medscape (free registration required) AND Frequent sauna bathing has many health benefits – Elsevier, via ScienceDaily (free)
6 – No proof that moderate drinking prevents dementia – NHS Choices (free)
See original study: Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia (free text, editorial and commentaries)
“”Middle aged drinking may reduce dementia risk, new study finds,” is the misleading and irresponsible headline in The Daily Telegraph.”
7 – Viewpoint: Lyme Disease in 2018: What Is New (and What Is Not) – JAMA (free for a limited period)
8 – ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Crohn’s Disease in Adults – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free)
Commentary: New Crohn Disease Management Guidelines: Top Five Takeaways – Medscape (free registration required)
Commentaries: Study suggests obesity may increase flu spread – CIDRAP (free) AND Beyond Disease Severity: The Impact of Obesity on Influenza A Virus Shedding – The Journal of Infectious Diseases (free) AND Study suggests obesity may also impact flu transmission, not just severity of illness – Infectious Diseases Society of America, via EurekAlert (free) AND Obesity extends duration of influenza A virus shedding – NIH News (free)
10 – Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols – Science Translational Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Study finds increased alcohol tolerance in common hospital pathogen – CIDRAP (free) AND Superbugs now also becoming resistant to alcohol disinfectants – Reuters (free) AND Some Bacteria Are Becoming ‘More Tolerant’ Of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds – NPR (free)
“Researchers found that E faecium isolates collected in 2 Australian hospitals after 2009 were 10x more tolerant to alcohol than those collected before 2004, and that the date of isolation was a much better predictor of survival than the genotype” (via @CIDRAP_ASP see Tweet)