Mon, October 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!
8 Oct, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
Commentaries: New Consensus Report from the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Calls for Paradigm Shift to Patient-Centered Care for Type 2 Diabetes – American Diabetes Association (free) AND New EASD-ADA consensus guidelines on managing hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes launched at EASD meeting – Diabetologia (free)
Related Guidelines: WHO Guideline: Medicines for the Treatment of Diabetes in Low-Resource Settings (free guideline and commentaries) AND Pharmacologic Glycemic Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Adults – Canadian Journal of Diabetes (free) AND ADA 2018 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (free guideline and commentaries) AND ACP Guideline: Hemoglobin A1c Targets for Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes (free guideline and commentaries)
2 – Supplement: ESMO Updated Clinical Practice Guidelines – European Society of Medical Oncology (free)
3 – Perspective: What the tests don’t show – The Washington Post (a few articles per month are free)
“Many doctors are surprisingly bad at reading test results and/or fail to grasp how false positives work. This is putting patients at risk” (via @pash22 see Tweet)
4 – Perspective: Why Employers Should Stop Giving Away Snacks – Pacific Standart (free)
Source: Global Health NOW Newsletter
5 – Outpatient antibiotics widely prescribed without an infection diagnosis – CIDRAP (free)
Related Commentary: Study Finds Almost Half of Antibiotic Prescriptions Written Without a Diagnosis – Pharmacy Times (free)
6 – Review: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)
7 – Review: Cardiovascular disease and COPD: dangerous liaisons? – European Respiratory Review (free)
8 – COPD Guidelines: A Review of the 2018 GOLD Report – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)
Related: Highlights from the New GOLD COPD Guidelines (free guideline and commentaries)
Commentaries: Enlarging the loop: closed-loop insulin delivery for type 1 diabetes – The Lancet (free) AND Hybrid Closed Loop System Aid for Tighter Glucose Control – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Commentary: Treating psoriasis in the future could be as easy as going online – USC News (free)