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Wed, January 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

16 Jan, 2019 | 01:01h | UTC

 

1 – Ten threats to global health in 2019 – World Health Organization (free)

 

2 – Adult Outpatients With Acute Cough Due to Suspected Pneumonia or Influenza – CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report (free)

See other recently published CHEST guidelines on the management of cough in specific populations: Classification of Cough as a Symptom in Adults and Management Algorithms (free) AND Clinically Diagnosing Pertussis-associated Cough in Adults and Children (free) AND Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatment for Acute Cough Associated With the Common Cold (free) AND Cough Due to TB and Other Chronic Infections  (free) AND Chronic Cough Due to Gastroesophageal Reflux in Adults (free) AND Symptomatic Treatment of Cough Among Adult Patients With Lung Cancer (free) AND Cough in the athlete (free) AND Occupational and Environmental Contributions to Chronic Cough in Adults (free) AND Treatment of Unexplained Chronic Cough (free) AND Use of Management Pathways or Algorithms in Children With Chronic Cough (free) AND Management of Children With Chronic Wet Cough and Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis (free)

 

3 – Excess Burden of Mental Illness and Hospitalization in Young-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Mental Illness Risk Increased in Young Onset Diabetes – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Young-onset type 2 diabetes associated with increased risk of hospitalization frequently due to mental illness – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Young Onset Diabetes Linked to High Rates of Mental Illness, Hospitalization – AJMC (free)

 

4 – Effect of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on 8-Week Remission in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Video Summary: Can a short duration of anaerobically prepared pooled FMT induce remission in ulcerative colitis? (free)

Commentary: Poo transplant effective treatment for chronic bowel condition – University of Adelaide (free)

See also: Visual Abstract (free)

 

5 – Effect of early physician follow-up on mortality and subsequent hospital admissions after emergency care for heart failure: a retrospective cohort study – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)

Commentaries: Heart failure patients need sooner follow-up care – Reuters (free) AND Patients with heart failure have lower risk of death if seen by physician in first 7 days after ED discharge – MedicalXpress (free)

 

6 – Zackary Berger’s weekly research reviews, 14 January 2019 – The BMJ (free)

“Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals”.

 

7 – Effect of Nonmyeloablative Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation vs Continued Disease-Modifying Therapy on Disease Progression in Patients With Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

See also: Visual Abstract (free)

Commentaries: For some multiple sclerosis patients, knocking out the immune system might work better than drugs – Science (free) AND A remarkable new study shows stem cells can reverse MS in some patients – Vox (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at blood stem cell transplantation as a MS treatment – Science Media Centre (free)

 

8 – Opinion: The scandal of surrogates and the missing survival data in cancer trials – BMJ EBM Spotlight (free)

Related Study: Association Between Surrogate End-points and Overall Survival in Oncology (free)

 

9 – Draft Recommendation Statement: Breast Cancer: Medication Use to Reduce Risk – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)

Commentary: USPSTF Reaffirms Drugs for Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)

 

10 – Cardiologist-level arrhythmia detection and classification in ambulatory electrocardiograms using a deep neural network – Nature Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Using Artificial Intelligence to Catch Irregular Heartbeats – NIH Director’s Blog (free) AND Machine Matches Docs for Arrhythmia Detection – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 


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