Fri, March 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!
22 Mar, 2019 | 07:42h | UTC
Commentaries: Bacteria in urine doesn’t always indicate infection – Infectious Diseases Society of America (free) AND Most Urinary Bacteria Do Not Require Antibiotics – MedicalResearch.com (free)
“Home blood pressure should be measured for 3 days, increased to 7 only when mean blood pressure is close to a diagnostic or treatment threshold.”
3 – Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis (free articles – registration required)
Commentaries: Experts set out targets to eliminate tuberculosis within a generation – The Lancet (free) AND A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic – The Conversation (free) AND A Roadmap for Ending the Moral Catastrophe of TB – Global Health NOW (free)
“A collaborative approach using a quality improvement methodology and a care bundle appeared to be effective in reducing mortality and length of stay in emergency laparotomy”.
5 – OBesity Treatment, Beyond the Guidelines: Practical Suggestions for Clinical Practice – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related: European Practical and Patient-Centred Guidelines for Adult Obesity Management in Primary Care – Obesity Facts (free)
7 – Opting Out of Vaccines Should Opt You Out of American Society – Scientific American (free)
“Although you have a right to your own body, your choice to willfully be sick ends where another’s right to be healthy begins.”
Commentaries: Expert reaction to research on hot tea and oesophageal cancer – Science Media Centre (free) AND Drinking hot tea linked with elevated risk of esophageal cancer – Wiley (free) AND Drinking very hot tea almost doubles risk of cancer, new study says – CNN (free) AND Hot tea linked to increased risk of esophageal cancer – UPI (free)
10 – Performance of Screening Ultrasonography as an Adjunct to Screening Mammography in Women Across the Spectrum of Breast Cancer Risk – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Breast Screening: Adding Ultrasonography Doesn’t Seem Worth Associated Harms – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Does supplemental whole-breast ultrasound provide significant value? – Radiology Business (free)