Fri, June 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!
30 Jun, 2017 | 00:34h | UTC
1 – Interventions for preventing high altitude illness: Part 1. Commonly-used classes of drugs – Cochrane Library (link to summary – $ for full-text) (RT @CochraneUK see Tweet)
Acetazolamide seems to be effective to prevent acute high-altitude illness in dosages of 250 to 750 mg/day.
2 – Comparison of Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Versus Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation for Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome – The American Journal of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: EvidenceAlerts
In patients with Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome and left main or multivessel CAD, CABG significantly reduced the risk of death from any causes, myocardial infarction, or stroke compared with PCI with drug-eluting stents.
3 – A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Antibiotics for Smaller Skin Abscesses – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Adding Antibiotics to Incision-and-Drainage of Small Skin Abscesses Helps – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Antibiotics Improve Short-Term Outcomes for Simple Abscesses – Medscape (free registration required) AND Study finds benefit for antibiotic treatment of simple skin wounds – CIDRAP (free)
4 – Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Quick Take Video Summary: Air Pollution and Mortality (free)
Editorial: Air Pollution Still Kills (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Study of US seniors strengthens link between air pollution and premature death – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, via Science Daily (free)
Related: The cost of a polluted environment: 1.7 million child deaths a year, says WHO – World Health Organization (free) AND Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015 – The Lancet (free) AND Death in the Air: Air Pollution Costs Money and Lives – World Bank (free infographic and report)
5 – Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up: prospective population study – The BMJ (free)
Editorial: Higher IQ in childhood is linked to a longer life (free)
Why do those with higher IQs live longer? A new study points to answers – STAT News (free) Higher childhood IQ associated with lower adult mortality – OnMedica (free) AND People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s – New Scientist (free)
6 – Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? – The Guardian (free)
“Interesting long read” (RT @CochraneUK see Tweet)
7 – Precision Medicine: the Promise vs. the Reality – Michigan University Health Lab (free) (RT @pash22)
“Scientists find great potential in using genetic sequencing to help direct targeted cancer therapy, but practicing oncologists see some important limitations”.
8 – Clinical Review: Update on anti-tumor necrosis factor agents and other new drugs for inflammatory bowel disease – The BMJ (free)
9 – Editorial: Clinical effects of antivirals for hepatitis C: context is critical – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (free)
Original Cochrane review: Direct-acting antivirals for chronic hepatitis C – Cochrane Library (link to summary – $ for full-text)
Commentary in The Guardian: ‘Miracle’ hepatitis C drugs costing £30k per patient ‘may have no clinical effect’ (free)
“Presence of nucleated RBCs is a robust predictor of post-discharge mortality and unplanned hospital readmission” (RT @Crit_Care see Tweet)