Fri, March 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

Related: SIGN Guideline: Risk Reduction and Management of Delirium (free)

2 – A Trial of a Shorter Regimen for Rifampin-Resistant Tuberculosis – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: STREAM trial final results show 9-month treatment for multi-drug resistant TB is as effective as 24-month treatment – University College London (free) AND Trial data support shorter drug-resistant TB regimen – CIDRAP (free)

3 – Decision Making for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Executive Summary for the American Geriatrics Society Guiding Principles on the Care of Older Adults With Multimorbidity – Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (free)

News Release: AGS releases new action steps to guide care for older adults with multiple chronic illnesses – American Geriatrics Society (free)

4 – Patient blood management in obstetrics: prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage. A NATA consensus statement – Blood Transfusion (free)

5 – Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Who, When, Why, and How – Chest (free)

6 – Perspective: The Case for Being a Medical Conservative – The American Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

7 – Systolic Blood Pressure and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults with Hypertension – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

Commentary: Lower BP Linked to Cognitive Decline in Frail Elderly – Medscape (free registration required)

Related: Cohort Study: Control of Blood Pressure and Risk of Mortality in a Cohort of Older Adults (link to abstract and commentary)

8 – Efficacy and risk of harms of repeat ivermectin mass drug administrations for control of malaria (RIMDAMAL): a cluster-randomised trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Advancing the repurposing of ivermectin for malaria – The Lancet (free) AND Mosquito-killing drug reduces malaria episodes by a fifth among children – expert comment – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (free)

9 – Treatment, prevention and public health management of impetigo, scabies, crusted scabies and fungal skin infections in endemic populations: a systematic review – Tropical Medicine & International Health (free)

10 – Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing – Nature (free)

Editorial: Germline gene-editing research needs rules (free)

Commentaries: Leading scientists, backed by NIH, call for a global moratorium on creating ‘CRISPR babies’ – STAT (free) AND Expert reaction to a call for a moratorium on heritable genome editing – Science Media Centre (free)

Related: Genome-Edited Baby Provokes International Outcry (free commentaries) AND Consensus Statement on the Reported Birth of Genome-Edited Babies in China (free)