Tue, July 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!
18 Jul, 2017 | 00:15h | UTC
1 – Report: Progress and Challenges with Achieving Universal Immunization Coverage: 2016 Estimates of Immunization Coverage – WHO / UNICEF (free PDF) (RT @WHO see Tweet )
News Release: 1 in 10 infants worldwide did not receive any vaccinations in 2016 – World Health Organization (free)
Commentaries: Artificial Sweeteners Not Tied to Lower BMI and May Even Increase It – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Artificial Sweeteners Don’t Help People Lose Weight, Review Finds – NPR (free) AND The Irony Of Artificial Sweeteners – Forbes (free) AND Low-calorie sweeteners don’t help with weight loss — and may lead to gained pounds – STAT News (free)
3 – What proportion of health outcomes are attributable to health care – Sheffield DPH (free) (RT @gmacscotland and @felly500 see Tweet)
4 – The hidden truth about our prescription medications – Ideas.Ted.Com (free)
“Around half of the clinical trials that were done on the medicines we use today have never published their results…” (RT @Students4BE see Tweet)
5 – Why are these countries the most obese? Walking is just one reason – CNN (free) (RT @kamleshkhunti see Tweet)
Related studies: Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity – NIH News Release (commentary, see original article – $)
6 – Position Statement: American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists And American College Of Endocrinology Position Statement On Menopause – 2017 Update (free)
Related Position Statement: The 2017 hormone therapy position statement of The North American Menopause Society (free PDF)
Related Draft Recommendation Statement: Menopausal Hormone Therapy: Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)
7 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 17 July 2017 – The BMJ Blogs (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
9 – Financing transformative health systems towards achievement of the health Sustainable Development Goals: a model for projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries – The Lancet Global Health (free) (RT @LancetGH see Tweet)
Invited commentaries: Financing health systems to achieve the health Sustainable Development Goals (free) AND All roads lead to universal health coverage, by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO (free)
WHO News Release: WHO estimates cost of reaching global health targets by 2030 (free)
Commentaries: Global health price tag could be $371 billion a year by 2030, WHO says – Reuters (free)
10 – New research program and website: Access to Healthcare – Economist Intelligence Unit (all resources are free) (RT @anetrid see Tweet)
Report: Global access to healthcare: Building sustainable health systems – Economist Intelligence Unit report (free)
“This research programme, created by The Economist Intelligence Unit, examines the challenges and opportunities countries face as they attempt to improve access to high-quality healthcare that meets the needs of their populations. It consists of the Global Access to Healthcare Index, covering 60 countries with a diversity of income levels; a global report; an animated infographic introducing the key findings from the index; six infographics on the main domains of the index; and five regional summary papers”.