Mon, February 26 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Latent TB Infection: Updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management – World Health Organization (free)

News release: WHO issues new recommendations calling for accelerated uptake of testing and treatment for TB prevention (free)

2 – ACG Clinical Guideline: Alcoholic Liver Disease – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free)

Commentary and summary: New Guideline for Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease – NEJM Journal Watch (free for a limited period)

3 – Prediction of cardiovascular risk factors from retinal fundus photographs via deep learning – Nature Biomedical Engineering (link to abstract – $ for full-text) (via @EricTopol see Very interesting Tweet)

Commentaries: Assessing Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Computer Vision – Google Research Blog (free) AND Google’s new AI algorithm predicts heart disease by looking at your eyes – TheVerge (free) AND Combination of AI, eye images could predict cardiovascular disease – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND It’s All in the Eyes: Google AI Calculates Cardiovascular Risk From Retinal Images – Medium (free)

4 – Outpatient Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Adults Treated for Malignancy: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guideline Update – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

Related guidelines: Diagnosis and empirical treatment of fever of unknown origin (FUO) in adult neutropenic patients: guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Working Party (AGIHO) of the German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO) (free) AND Management of febrile neutropaenia: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (free) AND Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2017 Update (free)

5 – Opinion: Doctors, Revolt! – The New York Times (free)

“Healing is replaced with treating, caring is supplanted by managing, and the art of listening is taken over by technological procedures. Bernard Lown” (via @lucadf see Tweet)

6 – The global crackdown on parents who refuse vaccines for their kids has begun – VOX (free)

“Countries like Italy and Australia are tired of measles outbreaks — so they’re moving to fine anti-vaccine parents”.

7 – Scientists Aim to Pull Peer Review Out Of The 17th Century – NPR (free)

Related: The Future of Peer Review – Scientific American (free) AND Peer review is a black box. Let’s open it up – STAT News (free) AND Exposing peer review – Research Information (free) AND Researchers debate whether journals should publish signed peer reviews – Science (free) AND The peer-review system for academic papers is badly in need of repair – The Conversation (free)

8 – Antifibrinolytic drugs for treating primary postpartum haemorrhage – Cochrane Library (free)

Related: Updated WHO Recommendation on Tranexamic Acid for the Treatment of Postpartum Haemorrhage (free PDF) AND Early use of tranexamic acid reduces bleeding more effectively – NIHR Signal (free) AND Effect of treatment delay on the effectiveness and safety of antifibrinolytics in acute severe haemorrhage: a meta-analysis of individual patient-level data from 40 138 bleeding patients – The Lancet (free)

9 – Spironolactone Versus Clonidine as a Fourth-Drug Therapy for Resistant Hypertension: The ReHOT Randomized Study (Resistant Hypertension Optimal Treatment) – Hypertension (free)

Commentary: Spironolactone bests clonidine as fourth drug for resistant hypertension – Univadis (free registration required)

10 – Infant Hospitalizations and Mortality After Maternal Vaccination – Pediatrics (free)

Commentaries: Maternal vaccination during pregnancy not associated with infant hospitalization, mortality – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Getting Recommended Vaccines During Pregnancy Doesn’t Lead to Harm in Infants – Physician’s First Watch (free)