Mon, Apr 17 – Top 10 Medical News Stories!

1 – Hospital costs in relation to body-mass index in 1.1 million women in England: a prospective cohort study – The Lancet (free)

Related commentary: The costs of overweight – The Lancet (free)

“Every 2 kg/m2 increase in BMI associated with a 7.4% increase in annual hospital costs” (RT @ZaherToumi see Tweet)

2 – Can machine-learning improve cardiovascular risk prediction using routine clinical data? – PLOS One (free)

See also: Self-taught artificial intelligence beats doctors at predicting heart attacks – Science (free)

“When expert MD guidelines are outperformed by machine learning for heart risk prediction” (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)

3 – A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel – Harvard Business Review (free) (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)

Original article abstract ($ for full-text): Association of Facebook Use With Compromised Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study – American Journal of Epidemiology

4 – Amsterdam’s solution to the obesity crisis: no fruit juice and enough sleep – The Guardian (free) (RT @DrAseemMalhotra see Tweet)

“The city is successfully fighting fat by promoting tap water in its schools, along with healthy cooking classes and a ban on fast food sponsorship”

5 – The Ebola outbreak, 2013–2016: old lessons for new epidemics – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (free) (RT @royalsociety see Tweet)

This article is part of the themed issue ‘The 2013–2016 West African Ebola epidemic: data, decision-making and disease control’ (all articles are free)

Comprehensive review of the latest Ebola outbreak with lessons learned and recommendations for future epidemics.

6 – Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience (2017) – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Free Download – PDF)

Source: New report charts ways to expedite critical research during epidemics – STAT News (free)

7 – Yellow Fever – Once Again on the Radar Screen in the Americas – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

See also: Is Yellow Fever Knocking At Our Door? – NPR (free) AND ‘We didn’t expect this’: A historic yellow fever outbreak spreads in Brazil – STAT News (free)

8 – CSH (Chinese Society of Hepatology) guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of drug-induced liver injury (free)

9 – Life after breast, prostate, and colon cancer: Primary care’s role – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)

10 – Diagnosis and management of psoriasis – Canadian Family Physician (free)