Wed, April 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!
25 Apr, 2018 | 00:49h | UTC
Commentary: Early treatment for leg ulcers gets patients back on their feet – Imperial College London (free)
2 – Committee Opinion: Optimizing Postpartum Care – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (free)
Commentary: Redesigning Maternal Care: OB-GYNs Are Urged to See New Mothers Sooner and More Often – ProPublica (free)
Source: Kaiser Health News Morning Brief
3 – Long-Term Effectiveness of Sigmoidoscopy Screening on Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Women and Men: A Randomized Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Sigmoidoscopy reduces colon cancer risk for men, but not women – American College of Physicians, via MedicalXpress (free) AND Sigmoidoscopy reduces colon cancer risk for men, but not women – 2 Minute Medicine (free)
Commentary: Soccer Heading—Not Collisions—Cognitively Impairs Players – Albert Einstein College of Medicine (free)
Related Review: Effects of Soccer Heading on Brain Structure and Function – Frontiers in Neurology (free)
5 – Teaching Computers to “See” the Invisible in Living Cells – NIH Director’s Blog (free)
Original Study: In Silico Labeling: Predicting Fluorescent Labels in Unlabeled Images (free) AND Commentary: Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells – NIH News Release (free)
6 – Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta – BuzzFeed News (free)
7 – Domain Management Approach to Heart Failure in the Geriatric Patient: Present and Future – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free for a limited period) (via @monicaAGrinberg)
8 – Viewpoint: David Oliver: Tube feeding and deteriorating patients—guidelines can take us only so far – The BMJ (free)
Related Guidelines: American Geriatrics Society Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia Position Statement (free) AND ESPEN guideline on ethical aspects of artificial nutrition and hydration (free)
Related Reviews: Artificial nutrition and hydration in advanced dementia – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND End-of-life issues in advanced dementia: Part 1: goals of care, decision-making process, and family education – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND End-of-life issues in advanced dementia: Part 2: management of poor nutritional intake, dehydration, and pneumonia – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Advanced Dementia – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Commentary: Prolonged acetaminophen use during pregnancy linked to increased ASD and ADHD risk – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, via EurekAlert (free)
Commentaries: Fetal exposure to moderate/high caffeine levels linked to excess childhood weight gain – BMJ Open Blog (free) AND Caffeine in pregnancy linked to risk of child overweight – OnMedica (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at caffeine in pregnancy and weight gain in children – Science Media Centre (free)