Fri, October 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Review: What treatments are effective for common cold in adults and children? – The BMJ (free review and infographic)

Commentaries: What works for treating children’s colds? – BBC (free) AND Doctors should steer young children away from decongestants – OnMedica (free)

2 – How To Prevent Brain-Sapping Delirium In The ICU – NPR (free text and podcast)

Related: ABCDEF Bundle – Society of Critical Care Medicine (free resource) AND The ABCDEF Bundle: Science and Philosophy of How ICU Liberation Serves Patients and Families – Critical Care Medicine (free)

3 – Correspondence: Real-Time Patient–Provider Video Telemedicine Integrated with Clinical Care – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

4 – Perspective: The approach to predictive medicine that is taking genomics research by storm – Nature (free)

“Polygenic risk scores represent a giant leap for gene-based diagnostic tests. Here’s why they’re still so controversial.”

5 – Review: Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis may cause more harm than benefit: an evidence-based analysis of Canadian and international guidelines – Thrombosis Journal (free) (via @amtejani)

6 – Review: A New Vaccine for Shingles – Therapeutics Initiative (free)

“Need to vaccinate 31 people to prevent one instance of HZ; Need to vaccinate 358 people to prevent one instance on post herpetic neuralgia” (via @amtejani)

7 – Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region (2018) – World Health Organization (free PDF)

Commentary: Noise: The other pollution hurting our health – CNN (free)

8 – Clinical management of cutaneous adverse events in patients on targeted anticancer therapies and immunotherapies: a national consensus statement by the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology and the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology – Clinical and Translational Oncology (free)

9 – Effectiveness of the Stand More AT (SMArT) Work intervention: cluster randomised controlled trial – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Reducing sedentary behaviour in the workplace (free)

Commentaries: Standing-desk workers ‘less tired, more engaged’ – BBC (free) AND Sit-stand desks may improve job performance, psychological health – UPI (free)

10 – Association of Unrecognized Myocardial Infarction With Long-term Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The ICELAND MI Study – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Silent Infarcts Have Similar Mortality Over 10 Years as Clinically Recognized MI – TCTMD (free) AND Association of Unrecognized MI With Long-Term Outcomes – American College of Cardiology (free)

Related Study: Silent Myocardial Infarction and Long-Term Risk of Heart Failure (link to abstract and commentaries)