Mon, September 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Effect of Aspirin on All-Cause Mortality in the Healthy Elderly – New England Journal of Medicine (free) (via @EricTopol)

Related Studies: Effect of Aspirin on Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding in the Healthy Elderly – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Effect of Aspirin on Disability-free Survival in the Healthy Elderly – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people- NIH News Releases (free) AND Low-Dose Aspirin Late in Life? Healthy People May Not Need It – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

2 – WHO water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018-2025 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

3 – Optimizing medications in older adults with cognitive impairment: Considerations for primary care clinicians – Canadian Family Physicians (free)

4 – Viewpoint: Antibiotics for Sepsis—Finding the Equilibrium – JAMA (free for a limited period)

5 – Shared Decision-Making: Staying Focused on the Ultimate Goal – NEJM Catalyst (free)

6 – Ig Nobel win for kidney stone removing roller-coaster – BBC (free)

Related: Ig Nobel prizes honor do-it-yourself colonoscopies, a curious use for postage stamps, and other peculiar research – Science (free)

7 – Can health services handle the Apple Watch? – BBC (free)

Related: The New Apple Watch 4: Cardiac Accuracy Unknown, “Game-Changing” Benefits Overblown – The Skeptical Cardiologist (free) AND The New ECG Apple Watch Could do More Harm Than Good – Wired (a few articles per month are free)

See also: New Watch can Help Doctors Monitor your Heart in Real Time (free commentaries)

8 – Patients vs. paywalls: Is the U.S. ready for open-access publishing? – STAT (free)

Related: Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free – The Guardian (free) AND cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)

9 – Prevalence of Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Adults — United States, 2016 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)

Commentaries: Chronic Pain Affects 20% of Americans, CDC Reports – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND CDC: About 1 in 5 US Adults Have Chronic Pain – MPR (free) AND One-fifth of American adults experience chronic pain, CDC estimates – CNBC (free)

10 – Total Medicare Costs Associated With Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer in Elderly Men – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Are Older Prostate Cancer Patients Overtreated? – MedPage Today (free registration required)