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Fri, November 3 – 10 Stories of The Day!

3 Nov, 2017 | 02:08h | UTC

 

1 – Percutaneous coronary intervention in stable angina (ORBITA): a double-blind, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Small Trial Raises Big Concerns That PCI In Stable Angina Is Just A Placebo – Cardiobrief (free) AND Diving Deep Into The ORBITA Trial – Cardiobrief (free) AND Unbelievable’: Heart Stents Fail to Ease Chest Pain – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND ORBITA: PCI Offers No Symptom Improvement Over Sham Procedure – TCTMD (free)

 

2 – Balanced Crystalloids vs Saline for Critically Ill Adults – American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting (free abstract)

Related Study: Balanced Crystalloids vs Saline for Noncritically Ill Adults in the Emergency Department – American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting (free abstract)

Commentaries: Landmark Trials Deliver Evidence to Rethink Saline Use – Medscape (free registration required) AND Saline on the Ropes? Studies find balanced crystalloid fluids safer – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

3 – Familial hypercholesterolaemia: identification and management – NICE Guideline (free)

News release: Inherited risk of high cholesterol should be identified and treated as early as possible, NICE says in updated guidance (free)

 

4 – Treatment and Outcome of Hemorrhagic Transformation After Intravenous Alteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (free PDF)

Commentary: Intracranial Hemorrhage After Stroke Thrombolysis: More Questions Than Answers (free)

Top Ten Things to Know: Treatment and Outcome of Hemorrhagic Transformation After Intravenous Alteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke (free PDF)

Slide Set: Treatment and Outcome of Hemorrhagic Transformation After Intravenous Alteplase in AIS (free PDF)

Related AHA/ASA Guidelines: Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke (free) AND Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage (free)

 

5 – Cancer incidence and mortality among young adults aged 20–39 years worldwide in 2012: a population-based study – The Lancet Oncology (free)

Commentaries: Reducing the global cancer burden among young adults – The Lancet Oncology (free) AND Global burden of cancer among young adults aged 20–39 years – eCancer News (free) AND Cancer in Young Adults Disproportionately Affects Women – Medical Research (free)

 

6 – A ‘smart’ approach to performance drugs – ACP Internist (free)

Related: Growing use of smart drugs by students could be a recipe for disaster – The Conversation (free) AND Brain Hackers Seeking Peak Performance Use Risky Chemical Cocktails: “Smart drugs” are not clinically proven and could be dangerous – Scientific American (free) AND Universities must do more to tackle use of smart drugs, say experts – The Guardian (free) AND Tweaking brains with ‘smart drugs’ to get ahead in Silicon Valley – The Washington Post (free) AND Professors take same ‘smart drugs’ as students to keep up with workloads, claims academic – Independent (free)

 

6 – Seeing is Believing: Using Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Scientific Research – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free)

 

7 – Opinion: Drug company sales reps should be banned from hospitals – STAT (free)

 

8 – Australia ends insurance subsidies for naturopathy, homeopathy, and more – Science-Based Medicine (free)

 

9 – Untreatable Gonorrhea Is Rapidly Spreading. Here’s What You Need to Know – TIME Health (free)

 

10 – Adolescent Childbirth Is Associated With Greater Framingham Risk Scores for Cardiovascular Disease Among Participants of the IMIAS (International Mobility in Aging Study) – Journal of The American Heart Association (free)

News release: Teen childbirth linked to increased risk for heart disease (free)

Commentaries: Teen childbirth linked to increased cardiovascular risk decades later – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Study finds link between increased cardiovascular diseases and teen childbirth – News Medical (free)

 


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