Thu, November 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!
16 Nov, 2017 | 03:11h | UTC
Summary: Periodic preventive health visits: A more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services (free)
News release: Annual checkups do not result in better health outcomes, national task force reaffirms (free)
2 – Sudden Cardiac Arrest during Participation in Competitive Sports – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Rare During Competitive Sports – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Cardiac arrest study in young athletes raises heart screening questions – Reuters (free) AND Cardiac Arrest Rare in Young Athletes But Tough to Predict – Health (free) AND Screening programs unlikely to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in competitive athletes – St. Michael’s Hospital, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentary: WHO offers guidance on carbapenem-resistant bacteria – CIDRAP (free)
“We develop an algorithm that can detect pneumonia from chest X-rays at a level exceeding practicing radiologists”
5 – The Patients vs. Paperwork Problem for Doctors – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related guideline: Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (free)
6 – World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day, 15 November 2017: A round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)
Editorial: Endovascular or open repair for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm? (free)
Commentary: Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm – MedicalXpress (free)
Commentaries: Serious health risks associated with energy drinks – ScienceDaily (free)
“To curb this growing public health issue, policy makers should regulate sales and marketing towards children and adolescents and set upper limits on caffeine” (from ScienceDaily)
Commentary: Bariatric Surgery Can Lead to HTN ‘Remission’ in Obese: GATEWAY – Medscape (free registration required) AND Gastric Bypass to Treat Obese Patients With Steady Hypertension – GATEWAY – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)