Thu, June 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Every Newborn Action Plan – World Health Organization (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet with infographic)

Related report from UK: Each Baby Counts – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (free PDF) Each Baby Counts Homepage (free resources) AND Reducing baby deaths and brain injuries during childbirth – BBC News (free)

Every year, 2.7 million babies die in the first 28 days of life. 75% of these deaths are preventable.

2 – WHO bids goodbye to Dr Chan and celebrates her achievements – World Health Organization (Source: WHO Newsletter)

Report 1: Ten years of transformation: Making WHO fit for purpose in the 21st century (free)

Report 2: Ten years in public health 2007-2017 (free)

Report 3: Healthier, fairer, safer: the global health journey 2007–2017 (free)

Related: My decade leading the WHO: dirty fights and steps toward universal coverage – by By Margaret Chan, Via STAT News (free)

“As Dr Margaret Chan’s term as Director-General of WHO comes to an end, we’d like to share some of the successes, setbacks and enduring challenges of the past decade in global public health.”

3 – Your vitamin D tests and supplements are probably a waste of money – VOX (free)

Related: Why Are So Many People Popping Vitamin D? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

“Screening for vitamin D has exploded — with no good evidence that it helps people.”

4 – Performance Improvement: Phenytoin Toxicity – JAMA (free)

Interesting case of medication error and prevention of subsequent adverse events (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)

5 – Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question – Choosing Wisely (free) (RT @ChooseWiselyCA see Tweet)

“New Choosing Wisely recommendations list! @SOGCorg identifies 10 tests, treatments to question in obstetrics and gynecology”

6 – ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS): White Paper of the ACR TI-RADS Committee – Journal of the American College of Radiology (free, and legal, PDF via Unpawall)

Commentary: New ultrasound scoring system for thyroid nodules to reduce unnecessary biopsies – University of Alabama at Birmingham, via EurekAlert (free)

7 – Harnessing the Power of Data in Health – Stanford Medicine 2017 Health Trends Report (free PDF)

News release: Stanford Medicine launches health care trends report (free)

“Stanford Medicine launches report on health care trends” (RT @StanfordMed see Tweet)

8 – A medicine review is about stopping medicine as much as it is about prescribing – Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (free) (RT @MaryanneDemasi see Tweet)

Original report: The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF)

Related: Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)

9 – Is aircraft noise exposure associated with cardiovascular disease and hypertension? Results from a cohort study in Athens, Greece – Occupational and Environmental Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Noise May Raise Blood Pressure Risk – New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Long term exposure to aircraft noise linked to high blood pressure – The BMJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Live Near an Airport? Nighttime Airplane Noise May Cause Hypertension – Medscape (free registration required)

Cohort study suggests a possible association.

10 – EULAR recommendations for women’s health and the management of family planning, assisted reproduction, pregnancy and menopause in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and/or antiphospholipid syndrome (free)

Commentary: EULAR: Guidance for Managing Lupus Pregnancy – MedPage Today (free registration required)