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Thu, November 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

16 Nov, 2017 | 03:11h | UTC

 

1 – Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services – Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (free)

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)

 

3 – Guidelines for the prevention and control of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosain health care facilities – World Health Organization (free)

Commentary: WHO offers guidance on carbapenem-resistant bacteria – CIDRAP (free)

 

4 – CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning – Stanford ML Group (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)

 

7 – Comparative clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of endovascular strategy vopen repair for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: three year results of the IMPROVE randomised trial – The BMJ (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)

 

8 – Health Effects and Public Health Concerns of Energy Drink Consumption in the United States: A Mini-Review – Frontiers in Public Health (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)

 

9 – Effects of Bariatric Surgery in Obese Patients With Hypertension: The GATEWAY Randomized Trial (Gastric Bypass to Treat Obese Patients With Steady Hypertension) – Circulation (free)

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)

 

10 – Effects of weight loss interventions for adults who are obese on mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

 


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