Fri, October 26 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Oxygen therapy for acutely ill medical patients: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free)

News Release: New guidance recommends minimal oxygen use for most people in hospital – The BMJ (free)

2 – Management of antiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing elective invasive procedures. Proposals from the French Working Group on perioperative haemostasis (GIHP) and the French Study Group on thrombosis and haemostasis (GFHT). In collaboration with the French Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR) (free)

3 – The global burden of multiple chronic conditions: A narrative review – Preventive Medicine Reports (free)

Related: Multimorbidity: A Priority for Global Health Research (free report and commentaries) AND Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Interventions for Managing Multiple High-Burden Chronic Diseases in Older Adults (free study and commentaries) Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs (several perspectives on the subject)

4 – Perspective: The troubling epidemic of unnecessary C-sections around the world, explained – VOX (free)

Related WHO Recommendations: Non-Clinical Interventions to Reduce Unnecessary Cesarean Sections (free guideline and commentaries)

Related The Lancet Series: Optimising Cesarean Section Use (free articles)

Related Cochrane Review: Non‐Clinical Interventions for Reducing Unnecessary Caesarean Section (free review and summary)

“The C-section rate has doubled in less than a generation, from 12 percent of all births in 2000 to 21 percent in 2015.”

5 – The skeptic: What precision medicine revolution? – MIT Technology Review (free)

Related: What Precisely Is Precision Oncology—and Will It Work? – The ASCO Post (free)

6 – Review: Similarities and differences between biliary sludge and microlithiasis: Their clinical and pathophysiological significances – Liver Research (free)

7 – Review: Pacemaker‐mediated arrhythmias – Journal of Arrythmia (free)

8 – Low-dose imipramine for refractory functional dyspepsia: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Refractory functional dyspepsia: low-dose imipramine safe, effective – Univadis (free registration required)

9 – Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and risk of lung cancer: population based cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and lung cancer (free)

Commentaries: Blood pressure drug linked to possible small increased risk of lung cancer – NHS Choices (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at blood pressure drugs and lung cancer risk – Science Media Centre (free)

10 – Efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of herpes zoster vaccines in adults aged 50 and older: systematic review and network meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

“Using the adjuvant recombinant subunit vaccine might prevent more cases of herpes zoster than using the live attenuated vaccine, but the adjuvant recombinant subunit vaccine also carries a greater risk of adverse events at injection sites.”