Wed, August 9 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – New NICE Guideline: Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management (free)

2 – Interventions during pregnancy and childbirth for preventing cerebral palsy: an overview of Cochrane reviews (free)

3 – Acute mesenteric ischemia: guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

4 – Prognostic Factors for Treatment Failure in Acute Otitis Media – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Features predicting treatment failure in acute otitis media – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Study IDs Children With AOM Who Benefit From Antibiotics – Medscape (free registration required)

“Children with severe bulging of the tympanic membrane seem to benefit most from antimicrobial treatment of AOM”

5 – Half of papers searched for online are free to read – Nature News (free)

“Large study of open research analysed reader data from Unpaywall tool, which finds freely available versions of articles”.

6 – Expansion of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Task Shifting to Community-Based Nonspecialist Providers: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Nonspecialists Could Safely Provide Hepatitis C Care – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND HCV treatment by NPs, PCPs appears safe, effective as that provided by subspecialists – ACP Internist (free)

“Expansion of Treatment for HCV Infection by Task Shifting to Community-Based Nonspecialists” (RT @kennylinafp see Tweet)

7 – ANMCO Scientific Statement: clinical management of hypercholesterolaemia in patients with acute coronary syndromes – European Heart Journal (free)

8 – Opinion: How Low Is Too Low With Salt in Heart Failure? Randomized Studies Needed to Resolve Concern – Circulation (free)

See more on sodium intake and cardiovascular disease in our July 11^th issue (see #1)

9 – Association of Estimated Sodium Intake With Adverse Cardiac Structure and Function – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Typical adults eat enough salt to damage heart – Reuters (free) AND High Dietary Sodium Linked to Subclinical Cardiac Dysfunction – Medscape (free registration required)

10 – How long should I take antibiotics? Exploring the Goldilocks problem – Robin Centor in KevinMD.com Blog (free)

Related: The antibiotic course has had its day – The BMJ (free) AND Keep taking the tablets: three reasons to stay the full antibiotics course – The Conversation (free) (RT @Onisillos) AND Why you really should take your full course of antibiotics – The Conversation (free)