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Wed, March 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

7 Mar, 2018 | 01:06h | UTC

 

1 – Effect of Opioid vs Nonopioid Medications on Pain-Related Function in Patients With Chronic Back Pain or Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis Pain: The SPACE Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Opioids Don’t Beat Other Medications For Chronic Pain – NPR (free) AND More Data Opioids No Better for Chronic Back, Arthritis Pain – Medscape (free registration required) AND Opioids no better than NSAIDs for chronic back or arthritis pain – Reuters (free)

Related: Opioid Wisely – Choosing Wisely Canada (free) AND Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free) 

 

2 – Effect of a Low-Intensity PSA-Based Screening Intervention on Prostate Cancer Mortality: The CAP Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: One-off PSA screening for prostate cancer does not save lives – eCancer News (free)

“Largest ever prostate cancer trial – CAP – published in the JAMA. No effect from low intensity PSA screening on prostate cancer mortality at 10 years”. (via @KariTikkinen see Tweet)

 

3 – Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments – STAT (free)

‘The most recognized book in all of medicine’ is also rife with hidden financial conflicts. Should Harrison’s authors be disclosing $11 million in payments from drug and device makers?” (via @caseymross see Tweet)

 

4 – One-Month Tuberculosis Prophylaxis as Effective as Nine-Month Regimen for People Living with HIV – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (free) (via @iasociety see Tweet)

Related: New ways to fight HIV and tuberculosis emerge at AIDS conference – Science (free)

 

5 – Scandinavian SSAI clinical practice guideline on choice of inotropic agent for patients with acute circulatory failure – Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

 

6 – Why Apple, Amazon, and Google are making big health care moves – VOX (free)

 

7 – Opinion: Are Hospitals Becoming Obsolete? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 

8 – Big Swings in Daily Temperatures Linked to Spikes in MI Rates – TCTMD (free)

 

9 – Frailty and the management of patients with acute cardiovascular disease: A position paper from the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association – European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care (free)

 

10 – Antithrombotic therapy and body mass: an expert position paper of the ESC Working Group on Thrombosis – European Heart Journal (free)

 


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