Fri, September 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Weight and Metabolic Outcomes 12 Years after Gastric Bypass – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Benefits of gastric bypass persist for 12 years – Reuters (free) AND Gastric bypass surgery benefits continue for 12 years – Diabetes.co.uk (free) AND Bariatric Surgery’s Benefits Last Over a Decade – Physician’s First Watch (free)

2 – Do interventions that reduce the cost of smoking cessation treatment increase quit rates, quit attempts or use of treatments? – Cochrane Library (free)

Original article: Healthcare financing systems for increasing the use of tobacco dependence treatment – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“Full financial interventions directed at smokers when compared to no financial interventions increase the proportion of smokers who attempt to quit, use smoking cessation treatments, and succeed in quitting”.

3 – Lung Cancer Mortality Associated With Smoking and Smoking Cessation Among People Living With HIV in the United States – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Editorial: If We Are Smart Enough to Stop HIV From Replicating, Why Can’t We Help People to Stop Smoking? (free)

Commentaries: People with HIV who smoke are more likely to die from lung cancer than from HIV itself – eCancer (free) AND Smoking cuts life expectancy in HIV more than AIDS does – OnMedica (free)

4 – Randomized clinical trial of antibiotic therapy for uncomplicated appendicitis – British Journal of Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

See also a  related meta-analysis suggesting the safety of nonoperative treatment for uncomplicated cases (free) and a recent guideline that incorporates the possibility of non-operative treatment for uncomplicated disease (free)

“1st RCT to show uncomplicated appendicitis resolve even without antibiotics (let alone surgery)” (RT @villesallinen see Tweet)

5 – All Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Increase the Risk of Future Cardiovascular Disease – Hypertension (link to abstract – free PDF via @unpaywall)

Commentaries: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy increase future risk of heart disease – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND A type of hypertension during pregnancy more dangerous than thought – AHA News (free)

See related articles and commentaries in our August 22^nd issue (see #3)

6 – Association of Trial Registration With Reporting of Primary Outcomes in Protocols and Publications – JAMA (free)

Commentaries: Discrepancy between trial goals, results may mask treatment risks – Reuters (free) AND Clinical Trials Often Unregistered, Unpublished – The JAMA Network (free)

7 – The interstitial lung disease multidisciplinary meeting: A position statement from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Lung Foundation Australia (free)

8 – Cancer patients need better care, not just more technology – Nature News (free)

9 – Juvenile Stroke: A Practice-Oriented Overview – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)

Commentary: German study dissects etiology behind juvenile stroke – Cardiovascular Business (free)

10 – FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA recommends separating dosing of potassium-lowering drug sodium polystyrene sulfonate (Kayexalate) from all other oral drugs (free)

Commentary: Don’t Give Kayexalate With Other Oral Drugs, FDA Warns – Medscape (free registration required)

“Patients should take orally administered prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines at least 3 hours before or 3 hours after sodium polystyrene sulfonate”