Mon, April 2 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Moderate‐to‐Vigorous Physical Activity and All‐Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter? – Journal of the American Heart Association (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Accumulation of Moderate‐to‐Vigorous Physical Activity and All‐Cause Mortality (free)

Commentaries: Whether sustained or sporadic, exercise offers same reductions in premature death risk – Duke University Medical Center, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Get 150 minutes/week of moderate physical activity: It doesn’t matter how – National Cancer Institute (free) AND Every bit of exercise counts in reducing risk of early death: Study – CBC (free) AND Those 2-Minute Walk Breaks? They Add Up – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) 

2 – Update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B: AASLD 2018 hepatitis B guidance – Hepatology (free)

3 – Treating Subthreshold Depression in Primary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Behavioral Activation With Mindfulness – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Mindfulness Intervention Can Prevent Depression, Study Finds – Mad in America (free) AND Could mindfulness prevent major depression? – Medical News Today (free) AND Meditation May Reduce Depression in Primary Care – Medscape (free registration required)

4 – Viewpoint: Charter on Physician Well-being – JAMA (free)

5 – To Combat Physician Burnout and Improve Care, Fix the Electronic Health Record – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are free)

Related: Care-Centered Clinical Documentation in the Digital Environment: Solutions to Alleviate Burnout – National Academy of Medicine (free) AND Date Night with the EHR – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (free)

5 – The British Society of Gastroenterology/UK-PBC primary biliary cholangitis treatment and management guidelines – Gut (free)

6 – Report: Securing safe roads: the politics of change – World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (free news release and PDF)

Commentary: Death Toll On World’s Roads Grows, But Not Will To Stop It, New Report Finds – Forbes (free)

Related World Bank Report: The High Toll of Traffic Injuries : Unacceptable and Preventable – The World Bank (free PDF)

Related WHO Report: Save LIVES: a road safety technical package (free)

Source: International Health Policies Newsletter (free PDF)

7 – Mapped: the global epidemic of ‘lifestyle’ disease in charts – The Telegraph (free) (via @kamleshkhunti see Tweet)

8 – Illustrative Teaching Case: Oral Contraceptives and Ischemic Stroke Risk – Stroke (free for a limited period)

Key points: Oral Contraceptives and Ischemic Stroke Risk – American College of Cardiology (free)

9 – Macrolide antibiotics for bronchiectasis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Summary: Macrolide antibiotics for bronchiectasis – Cochrane Library (free)

“Long-term macrolide therapy may reduce the frequency of exacerbations and improve quality of life, although supporting evidence is derived mainly from studies of azithromycin, rather than other macrolides, and predominantly among adults rather than children. However, macrolides should be used with caution, as limited data indicate an associated increase in microbial resistance”.

10 – The most affected health domains after ischemic stroke – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Stroke affects more than just the physical – American Academy of Neurology, via EurekAlert (free) AND Physical, Executive Function Most Affected After Ischemic Stroke – Physician’s Weekly (free) AND Nonphysical Problems Common After Stroke – Medscape (free registration required) AND Mild Stroke Alters Far More Than the Physical – MedPage Today (free)

“Mild disability still comes with social, cognitive impact, study suggests” (from MedPage Today)