Tue, Apr 4 – Top 10 Medical News Stories
4 Apr, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC
Editorial: Importance of Innovations in Neonatal and Adolescent Health in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 (free)
Source: Child Deaths Drop From 14.2 Million In 1990 To 7.3 Million In 2015 – NPR Goats and Soda (free)
2 – Just Started! Free Online Course: Essentials of Global Health – Yale University and Coursera
3 – Free Online Course, Starts April 10. To Screen or not to Screen? Methods and health policies through case studies – University of Geneva and Coursera
4 – Free Online Course, Starts April 17. An Introduction to Population Health – University of Manchester and Coursera
5 – ACR Appropriateness Criteria Adds Topics, Covers More Clinical Variants Than Ever Before (free)
Browse Appropriateness Criteria Topics (free)
Source: Newswise
This comprehensive guide from American College of Radiology (ACR) covers 230 topics with more than 1,100 clinical indications and has just been updated. It is a very useful resource for doctors in all specialties to guide which exam is most appropriate in each clinical situation.
6 – Management of Inpatient Hyperglycemia and Diabetes in Older Adults – Diabetes Care (free)
Source: Management of Hyperglycemia in Elderly, Hospitalized Adults – PracticeUpdates (free registration required)
Source: Insomnia associated with increased risk of heart attack and stroke – EurekAlert (free) (RT @CaulfieldTim)
8 – You Should Appreciate Germs – Gates Notes (free)
9 – Eosinophilia – Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice (free)
10 – It’s not just you: science papers are getting harder to read – Nature (free)
More commentaries on academic writing and the importance of making research understandable to all: ‘It’s time to make sure research is understandable to all’ – The Telegraph (free) AND Scientific language is becoming more informal – Nature (free)
“Here we show that in mice DND1 binds a UU(A/U) trinucleotide motif predominantly in the 3′ untranslated regions of mRNA, and destabilizes target mRNAs through direct recruitment of the CCR4-NOT deadenylase complex”