Mon, August 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Corticosteroid therapy for sepsis: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free)

2 – Outbreaks: Behind the headlines – World Health Organization (free)

3 – Risk Factors Associated With Major Cardiovascular Events 1 Year After Acute Myocardial Infarction – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Algorithm IDs Patients at Risk of Post-MI Events – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Risk Model Helps Predict CV Events 1 Year After Acute MI – Medscape (free registration required)

4 – Analysis: Renaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Is it time to remove the cancer label from low-risk conditions? – The Conversation (free) AND Doctors should avoid saying ‘cancer’ for minor lesions – study – The Guardian (free) Drop ‘cancer’ label to protect patients from over-treatment, researchers say – The Sidney Morning Herald (free)

5 – Review: Dos and Don’ts in the Management of Cirrhosis: A View from the 21st Century – American Journal of Gastroenterology (via @Abraham_RMI)

6 – The multivitamin industry rakes in billions of dollars. But science says we’re not getting healthier – by Timothy Caulfield, in NBC News THINK (free)

Related Study: Association of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplementation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (free) AND Editorial: Multivitamins Do Not Reduce Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality and Should Not Be Taken for This Purpose: How Do We Know That? (free)

“Unless you have a clinically identified deficiency, the research tells us there is little reason to consume supplements.”

7 – Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Increasing Dramatically – Scientific American (free)

Related: CDC Report: U.S Trends in Vector-borne Diseases (link to report and commentaries)

8 – Infographic: High burden, low budget: non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) (via @equitylist)

9 – Multifactorial and multiple component interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Featured Review: Multifactorial and multiple component interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community – Cochrane Library (free)

10 – Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study highlights the global, regional, and national trends of chronic kidney disease epidemiology from 1990 to 2016 – Kidney International (free)

News release and visual abstract: KI article shows the doubling incidence, prevalence and mortality of CKD – International Society of Nephrology (free)

Commentary: Global Burden of Kidney Disease on the Rise, Unequally Distributed – Medscape (free registration required)