Tue, January 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Report: Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) – World Health Organization (free PDF)

News Release: High levels of antibiotic resistance found worldwide, new data shows (free)

Commentaries: WHO releases its first report on global antibiotic resistance – CIDRAP (free) AND UN health agency finds high levels of antibiotic resistance to world’s most common infections – UN News Centre (free)

2 – Editorial: Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t – BMJ Evidence Based Medicine (free) (via @MaryDixonWoods)

“Broadly, overdiagnosis means making people patients unnecessarily, by identifying problems that were never going to cause harm or by medicalising ordinary life experiences through expanded definitions of diseases”.

3 – Diagnosis and management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a clinical practice guideline – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)

4 – Shorter Versus Longer Courses of Antibiotics for Infection in Hospitalized Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF)

Source:  Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club

5 – Birth Defects Potentially Related to Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy in the United States – JAMA (free for a period)

Commentaries: Birth defects climb in US areas with local Zika – CIDRAP (free) AND More birth defects in U.S. areas with Zika: U.S. health officials – Reuters (free)

6 – Increased risk of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus, a target group in general practice for preventive interventions: A population-based cohort study – PLOS One (free)

Commentaries: Women who have gestational diabetes in pregnancy are at higher risk of future health issues – University of Birmingham, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Target Patients With Gestational Diabetes After Birth to Reduce Risks – Medscape (free registration required)

Related article and commentaries: Association of History of Gestational Diabetes With Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk

7 – Association of Exposure to Communities With Higher Ratios of Obesity with Increased Body Mass Index and Risk of Overweight and Obesity Among Parents and Children – JAMA Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Your Neighbors, Your Waistline – New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Is ‘Social Contagion’ at Play When It Comes to Obesity Risk? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Location of military assignment tied to obesity risk for families – Cardiovascular Business (free)

8 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 29 January 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

9 – WSES guidelines for the management of iatrogenic colonoscopy perforation – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

10 – EULAR recommendations for the use of imaging in large vessel vasculitis in clinical practice – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (free)