Thu, August 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Risk Factors, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: In Type 2 Diabetes, Five Risk Factor Targets Keep MI, Stroke, and Death in Check – TCTMD (free) AND How People With Type 2 Diabetes Can Lower Their Risk of Health Problems – TIME (free) AND T2D, Without Other Risks, Not Tied to Excess Mortality – MedPage Today (free registration required)

2 – Absolute risk and predictors of the growth of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data – The Lancet Neurology (free)

Commentary: Brain scan checklist set to boost care for stroke survivors – University of Edinburgh, via EurekAlert (free)

3 – Trends in Use of Daily Chest Radiographs Among US Adults Receiving Mechanical Ventilation – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Daily Chest X-Rays Still Overused in Mechanically Ventilated Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Routine daily CXRs for ventilated patients: de-adoption is lagging – Univadis (free registration required) AND Chest x-rays overused on ventilation patients despite ACR guideline – HealthImaging (free)

4 – Editorial: Making diagnostic tests as essential as medicines – BMJ Global Health (free)

Related: Report: First-ever WHO List of Essential Diagnostic Tests (free report and news release) AND The WHO Essential Diagnostic List: A Tool for the Future (free commentaries)

5 – How Unpaywall is transforming open science – Nature News (free)

Related: Unlocking paywalled research papers (legally) (free commentaries) AND Half of papers searched for online are free to read (free)

We have been using the Unpaywall Extension for a while, and it is indeed a handy tool to find free versions (entirely legal) of paywalled articles.

6 – Long-Term Prognosis of Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Long-Term Prognosis of Takotsubo Syndrome – American College of Cardiology (free) AND How deadly is Takotsubo syndrome? It depends on the trigger – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Related: International Expert Consensus Document on Takotsubo Syndrome (free)

7 – Perspective: Medical students are skipping class in droves — and making lectures increasingly obsolete – STAT (free)

8 – Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Operational readiness and preparedness in neighbouring countries – World Health Organization (free)

Related: WHO chief calls for end to fighting in Congo to halt Ebola spread – The Guardian (free) AND Ebola cases mounting in DRC as region prepares for more – CIDRAP (free)

9 – Association Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Suicide – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Traumatic brain injury tied to increased risk of suicide – Reuters (free) AND Risk of Suicide Increases After TBI, Study Finds – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Expert reaction to traumatic brain injury and suicide – Science Media Centre (free)

10 – Amisulpride and olanzapine followed by open-label treatment with clozapine in first-episode schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder (OPTiMiSE): a three-phase switching study – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Switching Anti-Psychotic Medications Doesn’t Improve Outcomes in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients – Mount Sinai (free) AND No Benefit of Switching Antipsychotics in Early Schizophrenia – Medscape (free registration required) AND No Gain with Antipsych Meds Switch in Schizophrenia – MedPage Today (free registration required)