Wed, Apr 12 – 10 Medical Stories of The Day!
12 Apr, 2017 | 00:20h | UTC
1 – Prostate Cancer Screening Draft Recommendations – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)
Viewpoint: The US Preventive Services Task Force 2017 Draft Recommendation Statement on Screening for Prostate Cancer: An Invitation to Review and Comment – JAMA (free)
See also: Should you get screened for prostate cancer? We break down the latest advice – STAT News (free)
For those aged 55 to 69 it recommends “informed, individualized decision making based on a man’s values and preferences”. According to a useful infographic from the draft recommendations, the benefits are likely small. For every 1000 men offered PSA based screening over a period of 10-15 years, the test would avoid cancer spreading in 3 men and death from prostate cancer in 1-2 men, with the undesired consequences of false positives and subsequent procedures in many patients.
Related commentary: Tallying the bills of mortality from air pollution (free)
4.2 million deaths globally were attributable to fine particles and another 254 000 to surface ozone in 2015. The article also has details on country-specific deaths and disability-adjusted life-years from 1990 through 2015.
3 – How Many Pills Are Too Many? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“Evidence has mounted about the dangers of taking multiple, perhaps unnecessary, medications” (from Tweet)
4 – The hospital of tomorrow in 10 points – Critical Care (free)
This is the first article in a new thematic series about the future of critical care (free)
5 – EULAR revised recommendations for the management of fibromyalgia – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (free)
Source: EULAR Revised Recommendations for the Management of Fibromyalgia – Medscape (free registration required)
6 – Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hip – American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (free PDF)
Source: AAOS releases new clinical practice guideline for osteoarthritis of the hip – Medical Express (free)
7 – New ILAE Epilepsy Classification Published – Medscape (free registration required)
Position paper: Operational classification of seizure types by the International League Against Epilepsy (free)
Practical manual: Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operational classification of seizure types (free)
“For the first time in 30 years, an epileptic seizures classification update” (RT @MedscapeNeuro see Tweet)
8 – Vitamins and the Failure of Free-Market Health – The Atlantic (free)
“The booming dietary-supplement industry is plagued by outlandish claims, undermining credible science, and seeding confusion”.
9 – Effect of Baseline Nutritional Status on Long-term Multivitamin Use and Cardiovascular Disease Risk – JAMA Cardiology (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)
See also: Multivitamins may not improve heart health in men – UPI (free) AND Other recent commentary on multivitamins: Multivitamins a waste of money and just create ‘very expensive urine’ – The Guardian (free)
“Multivitamin use does not prevent major CV disease events in men, regardless of baseline nutritional status” (RT @CaulfieldTim)
10 – Surprising And Sobering: 7 Facts About Global Health – NPR (free)