Fri, September 28 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Editorial: We Know How to Conquer Tuberculosis – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Related: Tuberculosis experts hail historic week in the fight against TB – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (free) AND You Can’t Treat Tuberculosis With Platitudes – Foreign Policies (a few articles are free) AND Tuberculosis is a disease the world could control. But will it? – STAT (free) AND Addressing the Tuberculosis Epidemic: 21st Century Research for an Ancient Disease – JAMA (free)

2 – Potential effect of household contact management on childhood tuberculosis: a mathematical modelling study – The Lancet Global Health (free)

Invited Commentary: Preventing tuberculosis in household contacts crucial to protect children and contain epidemic spread (free)

Related: New roadmap to prevent and treat tuberculosis in children and adolescents – UNICEF (free)

3 – Doctor Referral of Overweight People to Low Energy total diet replacement Treatment (DROPLET): pragmatic randomised controlled trial – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Susan Jebb: Interventions to treat obesity work—so why am I not celebrating? – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at total diet replacement programmes and obesity – Science Media Centre (free) AND Crash diets are highly effective – new evidence – The Conversation (free)

4 – Associations between 24 hour movement behaviours and global cognition in US children: a cross-sectional observational study – The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Limiting children’s recreational screen time to less than 2 hours a day linked to better cognition – The Lancet (free) AND Limiting children’s screen time linked to better cognition, study says – CNN (free) AND Limiting children’s screen time linked to better cognition – BBC (free)

“Researchers said more work was now needed to better understand the effects of different types of screen use. However, they acknowledge that their observational study shows only an association between screen time and cognition and cannot prove a causal link.” (from BBC)

5 – Association of Same-Day Discharge After Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States With Costs and Outcomes – JAMA Network Open (free)

“Same day discharge after elective PCI used infrequently (3.5%), while safe + associated w/ reduced costs” (via @krychtiukmd see Tweet)

6 – Video: Understanding How Machine Learning Works – JAMA (free)

7 – Deprescribing recommendations: An essential consideration for clinical guideline developers – Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (free)

Related: Position Statement: Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (several articles and commentaries on the subject)

““Clinical guidelines often do not accommodate frailty or patients with multiple comorbid conditions. This can give rise to complex medication regimens and risk of medication harm. “Paper discusses the need to include deprescribing in clinical guidelines” (via @Deprescribing see Tweet)

8 – Opinion: No more first authors, no more last authors – Nature (free)

“The controversial suggestion that we “blow up” authorship conventions to foster team, collaborative science” (via @EricTopol see Tweet)

9 – Perspective: No One Knows Exactly What Would Happen If Mosquitoes Were to Disappear – The Atlantic (free)

Related: Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria – NPR (free) AND Scientists use gene drive to eradicate lab mosquitoes for the first time – STAT (free) AND Malaria mosquitoes wiped out in lab trials of gene drive technique – Reuters (free)

10 – Ethanol lock is effective on reducing the incidence of tunneled catheter-related bloodstream infections in hemodialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis – International Urology and Nephrology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Ethanol locks in catheters for dialysis may prevent sepsis – NIHR Signal (free)