Fri September 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!
13 Sep, 2019 | 08:41h | UTC
1 – Tuberculosis – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
Related: WHO Guidelines on Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control (free guidelines)
2 – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission: 2019 update: epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant and incurable tuberculosis – The Lancet (free registration required)
Related Articles: Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis – The Lancet (free registration required) AND Challenges and controversies in childhood tuberculosis – The Lancet (free)
Editorial: Tuberculosis needs accelerated and continued attention (free)
Related: WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (free) AND Randomized Trial: 9-month Treatment for Multi-drug Resistant TB is as Effective as 24-month Treatment (free)
Commentaries: HEALTH for heavy menstrual bleeding: real-world implications – The Lancet (free) AND Heavy menstrual bleeding: Keyhole hysterectomy technique ‘more effective’ – BBC (free)
4 – Off-target toxicity is a common mechanism of action of cancer drugs undergoing clinical trials – Science Translational Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Cancer drugs don’t always work as intended, researchers warn – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (free) AND Why Aren’t Cancer Drugs Better? The Targets Might Be Wrong – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
5 – Supercooling Extends Preservation Time of Human Livers – Nature Biotechnology (free)
Commentaries: Scientists triple storage time of human donor livers – NIH News Releases (free) AND ‘Supercool’ method triples organ survival – BBC (free) AND A Human Liver Can Be Cooled to –4 Degrees Celsius and Survive – The Atlantic (free)
Commentary: Diabetes Risk Plummets by 75% When Multiple Risk Factors Tackled – Medscape (free registration required)
7 – Chest Radiograph Signs Suggestive of Pericardial Disease – American College of Cardiology (free)
8 – Vaccines for Health Care Personnel – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)
Related: Immunization of Health-Care Personnel: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free) AND Vaccination of healthcare workers: A review – Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (free)
Related: Pneumococcal infection in adults: burden of disease – Clinical Microbiology and Infection (free) AND The remaining challenges of pneumococcal disease in adults – European Respiratory Review (free)
Commentary: Sleeping on back may not lead to worse pregnancy outcomes – Reuters (free)