Thu, November 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!
15 Nov, 2018 | 01:41h | UTC
“Prednisone treatment during the first 4 weeks after the initiation of ART for HIV infection resulted in a lower incidence of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome than placebo, without evidence of an increased risk of severe infections or cancers.”
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at low carbohydrate diets and weight maintenance – Science Media Centre (free) AND How a Low-Carb Diet Might Help You Maintain a Healthy Weight – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Low carb diets can help maintain weight loss by increasing number of calories burned – The BMJ (free)
3 – Increasing Safe Outpatient Management of Emergency Department Patients With Pulmonary Embolism: A Controlled Pragmatic Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Electronic Decision Support Facilitates Home Discharge of Some PE Patients From ER – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND EMR-Integrated Tool Lets More PE Patients Be Discharged from the ED – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
4 – Perspective: Benjamin Mazer: Are medical errors a huge problem that’s simple to fix? – The BMJ Opinion (free)
6 – Review: Neuroinfections caused by fungi – Infection (free)
7 – Vitamin and mineral supplementation for preventing dementia or delaying cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment – Cochrane Library (free)
“The evidence on vitamin and mineral supplements as treatments for mild cognitive Impairment is very limited. “
8 – One Month of Cannabis Abstinence in Adolescents and Young Adults Is Associated With Improved Memory – Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves – NPR (free) AND Stopping Cannabis Tied to Memory Improvements – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
9 – Long-term Survival following Multivessel Revascularization in Patients with Diabetes (FREEDOM Follow-On Study) – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Long-term FREEDOM: At Nearly 8 years, CABG Maintains Mortality Benefit Over PCI – TCTMD (free) AND FREEDOM Follow-On Study Findings Further Support CABG Over PCI in DM Patients With CAD – American College of Cardiology (free) AND AHA: CABG Still Better for Multivessel Disease in Diabetes – MedPage Today (free registration required)
10 – Antipsychotic drug use and pneumonia: Systematic review and meta-analysis – Journal of Psychopharmacology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Antipsychotics May Increase Risk of Pneumonia, Meta-Analysis Suggests – Psychiatric News Alert (free)
“Although antipsychotic use was associated with a higher risk of pneumonia, the researchers stopped short of claiming causality, citing a lack of data from randomized, controlled trials and a failure of observational studies to control for relevant confounders like tobacco use and weight.” (from Psychiatric News Alert)