Mon, January 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – International guidelines for groin hernia management – HerniaSurge Group (free)

2 – Excerpt from the Canadian Ophthalmological Society evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetic retinopathy – Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology (free)

Commentary in: Clinical Practice Guidelines, December 2017 – Medscape (free registration required)

3 – Breast Implants and the Risk of Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma in the Breast – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Breast Implants Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma – Oncology Nurse Advisor (free) AND Dutch Study Links Implants to Increased Breast-ALCL Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required)

4 – Editorial: Children and social media – The Lancet (free)

Original report: Life in ‘likes’ – Children’s Commissioner (free)

See also a recent Pediatrics supplement on Children, Adolescents and Screens (free articles) and other commentaries on Social Media and Mental Health (free articles)

5 – Reversing the Cardiac Effects of Sedentary Aging in Middle Age—A Randomized Controlled Trial: Implications For Heart Failure Prevention – Circulation (free PDF)

Commentaries: Exercise Study Hints at Volume, Intensity Levels Needed to Improve Cardiac Fitness in Middle Age – TCTMD (free) AND Exercise in middle age can reverse heart effects of sedentary lifestyle – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Exercise May Reverse Negative Cardiac Effects of Sedentary Life – Medscape (free registration required) AND Exercise is good for you, but did this study actually show it can ‘reverse damage from heart aging’? – HealthNewsReview (free)

6 – How to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Related: In 2018 we need less nonsense and more science – The Globe and Mail (free)

7 – What I’ve learned from my tally of 757 doctor suicides – The Washington Post (free)

Related: Why are doctors killing themselves? – MJA InSight (free) AND Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus – STAT (free) AND Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide – STAT (free)

8 – Supporting Patients Through Serious Illness and the End of Life: Sutter Health’s AIM Model – The Commonwealth Fund (free)

“By proactively managing care for the terminally ill, the Advanced Illness Management program has produced savings of $8,000–$9,000 per patient” (via @commonwealthfnd see Tweet)

9 – Supported employment helps people with severe mental illness to obtain work – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Interventions for obtaining and maintaining employment in adults with severe mental illness, a network meta-analysis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

10 – Antipsychotics and the Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia in Individuals Hospitalized for Nonpsychiatric Conditions – Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, via Medscape (free registration required)

Commentary: Antipsychotics May Increase Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia in Older Adults – Psychiatric News Alert (free)

Related: Antipsychotic use in elderly patients and the risk of pneumonia – Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (free) AND Antipsychotic drug exposure and risk of pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies – Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety (free)