Wed, July 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Association of Coffee Consumption With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Nonwhite Populations – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Related study: Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: No, These Two Studies Don’t Prove That Coffee Leads To Longer Life – Forbes (free) AND Coffee cuts risk of dying from stroke and heart disease, study suggests – The Guardian (free) AND Drinking coffee reduces risk of death from all causes, study finds – Imperial College of London (free)

2 – Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Risk Factors: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement – JAMA (free)

Editorial 1: Healthful Physical Activity and Diet Promotion—For the Many or the Few? (free)

Editorial 2: Cardiovascular Risk Factor Control for All (free)

Editorial 3: Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Known Risk Factors: Is Behavioral Counselling Necessary? (free)

The JAMA Network – For The Media: USPSTF Recommendation Regarding Behavioral Counseling for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (free)

3 – Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Palliative Care Intervention Improves Quality of Life in Advanced Heart Failure Patients – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Palliative Care Improves Heart Failure Quality-of-Life – MedPage Today (free registration required)

4 – The weird power of the placebo effect, explained – VOX (free)

Related: Placebos can work even when patients know what they are – World Economic Forum (free)

5 – France is making 11 vaccines mandatory to fight against preventable disease – World Economic Forum (free)

Related: Editorial: The Guardian view on vaccinations: a matter of public health (free)

Related 2: A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories – The Conversation (RT @Onisillos see Tweet)(free)

See more on mandatory vaccination in other countries in our May 29 issue, see #6

6 – Association of delay of urgent or emergency surgery with mortality and use of health care resources: a propensity score–matched observational cohort study – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)

Commentary: Patients whose emergency surgery is delayed are at higher risk of death – Canadian Medical Association Journal, via EurekAlert (free)

Source: STAT News Newsletter

“Delayed operating room access for emergency surgery was associated with increased risk of in hospital mortality, longer length of stay and higher costs”.

7 – Doxycycline may be a safer first option for treating a blistering skin condition – NIHR Signal (free)

Original Article: Doxycycline versus prednisolone as an initial treatment strategy for bullous pemphigoid: a pragmatic, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free) AND Editorial: Doxycycline: a first-line treatment for bullous pemphigoid? (free)

8 – Effectiveness of a group B outer membrane vesicle meningococcal vaccine against gonorrhoea in New Zealand: a retrospective case-control study – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap – The Conversation (author’s commentary – free) AND Meningococcal Vaccine May Provide Immunity Against Gonorrhea – Medscape (free registration required) AND Meningitis vaccine may also cut risk of ‘untreatable’ gonorrhoea, study says – The Guardian (free)

See related articles on the rising of “Untreatable” gonorrhea in our July 10^th issue (see #1)

9 – Suturing a divided world: How providing access to surgery drives global prosperity – The Conversation (free)

Related: Essential Surgery – Disease Control Priorities (DCP3) (free landmark book on the topic) AND The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (free resources)

Source: Global Health NOW Newsletter

10 – Electrocardiograms in Low-Risk Patients Undergoing An Annual Health Examination – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: More than 20% of low-risk patients receive an ECG as part of annual health exam –  Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) (RT @ICESOntario and @ChooseWiselyCA see Tweet) (free) AND ECGs Common in Low-Risk Patients After Annual Health Exam, Leading to More Cardiac Care – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) Routine ECG With Annual Physical Questioned – MedPage Today (free registration required)