Fri, September 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Meditation and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (free)

News releases: Meditation may decrease the risk of heart disease – AHA News (free) AND Meditation might be useful addition to heart-healthy lifestyle and medical treatment – AHA / ASA Newsroom (free)

Commentary: AHA: Meditation Might Lower Cardiovascular Risk – Physician’s First Watch (free)

2 – NICE Guideline: Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management (free)

News Release: Test children’s urine before prescribing antibiotics for UTIs, says NICE (free)

3 – NICE Guideline: Faltering growth: recognition and management of faltering growth in children (free)

News Release: Allow underweight children to be ‘messy’ with their food, says NICE (free)

See also: Faltering growth in children: summary of NICE guidance – The BMJ (free infographic and key points – $ for full-text)

4 – Effect of Routine Low-Dose Oxygen Supplementation on Death and Disability in Adults With Acute Stroke: The Stroke Oxygen Study Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Low-dose oxygen no benefit in adults with acute stroke – MedicalXpress (free) AND UK study ‘settles debate’ over whether to give routine oxygen to stroke patients – Nursing Times (free)

Routine oxygen was also of no benefit in a recent trial in patients with acute myocardial infarction, see Original Article (link to abstract – $ for full-text) and Quick Take Video Summary (free)

5 – State of the Art Review: Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical features, and therapeutic targets – The BMJ (free)

6 – Risk factors for admission to hospital with laboratory-confirmed influenza in young children: birth cohort study – European Respiratory Journal (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Protect babies from flu by getting older siblings vaccinated, parents advised – The Guardian (free) AND Older Siblings a Risk Factor for Serious Flu Infections in Infants – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

7 – Methods to improve healthcare worker hand hygiene to decrease infection in patient care – Cochrane Library (free)

Original article: Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

8 – World Rabies Day (28 September) – World Health Organization (free news release and infographics)

Updated Fact Sheet: Rabies – World Health Organization (free)

Related Website: Global Alliance for Rabies Control

See also: How to end human deaths from rabies: lessons from Kenya – The Conversation (free) (RT @Onisillos see Tweet)

9 – Position Statement: Energy and sports drinks in children and adolescents – Canadian Paediatric Society (free)

Commentaries: Energy, sports drinks should be avoided by children and teens, Canadian Paediatric Society warns – The Globe and Mail (free) AND Sports drinks and energy drinks unhealthy for kids and teens, Canadian pediatricians say – CBCNews (free)

10 – Local nerve blocks can improve outcomes for people with hip fracture – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Peripheral nerve blocks for hip fractures – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“One case of pneumonia prevented for every 7 hip fracture patients given pain relief with nerve block” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)