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Fri, November 10 – 10 Stories of The Day!

10 Nov, 2017 | 00:45h | UTC

 

1 – Book: Major Infectious Diseases: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (free)

Press Release: Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition Launches Major Infectious Diseases Volume (free)

Previous volumes: 1 – Essential Surgery / 2 – Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health / 3 – Cancer / 4 – Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders / 5 – Injury Prevention and Environmental Health (all free)

 

2 – Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 4th Edition – Australian Guidelines for General Practitioners and Physicians (free PDF)

Source: Gastroenterology Research Review Australia

 

3 – Symptomatic treatment of uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections in the ambulatory setting: randomised, double blind trial- The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Antibiotics or NSAIDs for uncomplicated urinary tract infection? (free)

Commentary: NSAID Compared to Antibiotic for Symptomatic Treatment of UTI – MPR (free)

 

4 – Regeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells – Nature (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: A Dying Boy Gets a New, Gene-Corrected Skin – The Atlantic (free) Gene Therapy Creates Replacement Skin to Save a Dying Boy – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND ‘Extraordinary’ tale: Stem cells heal a young boy’s lethal skin disease – STAT (free) AND Scientists grow replacement skin for boy suffering devastating genetic disorder – The Guardian (free) Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy – Associated Press (free)

 

5 – International variations in primary care physician consultation time: a systematic review of 67 countries – BMJ Open (free)

Commentary: Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world’s population – BMJ, via ScienceDaily (free)

“Global assessment of the length of doctor visits (primary care): range of 48 seconds to 22 minutes” (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)

 

6 – The case against hospital beds – Politico (free)

 

7 – Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV-negative persons with partners living with HIV: uptake, use, and effectiveness in an open-label demonstration project in East Africa – Gates Open Research (free)

 

8 – Medications That Cause Dry Mouth As an Adverse Effect in Older People: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis – Journal of The American Geriatrics Society (free)

Commentaries: Dry mouth symptoms can be side effect of certain medications for older adults – American Geriatrics Society, via EurekAlert (free) AND Certain medication use associated with dry mouth in older adults – Clinical Advisor (free)

 

9 – Coronary Artery Calcium Score for Long-term Risk Classification in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis – JAMA (free)

Commentaries: Risk Classification by CAC Score in Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND CAC Score Aids in CVD Risk Prediction in Diabetes – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

10 – Viewpoint: Placebo Effect of the Heart – The Atlantic (free)

Related viewpoints: 12 Seconds of Placebo – An Outsider’s View of ORBITA – The HealthCare Blog (free) AND ORBITA Trial Puts Interventional Cardiologists On The Defensive – Cardiobrief (free) AND ORBITA: Another clinical trial demonstrating the need for sham controls in surgical trials – Science-Based Medicine (free) AND Coronary Stents Humbled Yet Again in Stable CAD – Medscape (free)

See original ORBITA trial and commentaries in our November 3rd issue (see #1)

  


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