Mon, May 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!
7 May, 2018 | 00:29h | UTC
1 – SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, 5 May 2018 – World Health Organization Campaign (free guidelines, implementation tools, infographics, videos and more)
“It’s in your hands – prevent sepsis in health care”
2 – Consensus statement for cancer patients requiring intensive care support – Annals of Hematology (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
4 – A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“It’s the biggest health crisis you’ve never heard of. Doctors, philanthropists and companies are trying to solve it”.
5 – Opinion: Can we say who has died because of the breast-screening appointment error? – by David Spiegelhalter (free) (via @RichardLehman1 and @d_spiegel, see Tweet with infographic)
Related opinions: Breast cancer screening scandal must prompt review of mammograms – The Guardian (free) AND Breast cancer screening programme ‘does more harm than good’ – BBC (free) AND Did Breast Cancer Screening Error Cause Major Health Harm? – Medscape (free registration required)
6 – Decisions, Decisions: HMS physicians review the many factors in choosing breast cancer screenings – Harvard Medical School (free commentary and video) (via @tlisboa79 and @brhospitalist)
Original article: Breast Cancer Screening in 2018: Time for Shared Decision Making – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
8 – University of Twitter? Scientists give impromptu lecture critiquing nutrition research – CBC (free)
Related: Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public’s View of Medicine – The Health Care Blog (free) AND What’s your doctor reading? How social media is disrupting medical education – National Post (free)
Commentary: Women who eat fast food may take longer to get pregnant – NHS Choices (free) AND Women Who Eat Fast Food Take Longer to Become Pregnant – University of Adelaide, via NewsWise (free) AND Want to increase fertility? Try dropping fast food – CNN (free)
10 – Sauna bathing reduces the risk of stroke in Finnish men and women: A prospective cohort study – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Daily saunas may reduce stroke risk – NHS Choices (free) AND Can Saunas Lower Stroke Risk? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Could saunas reduce stroke risk? – Medical News Today (free)