Wed, May 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – News Release: First-ever WHO list of essential diagnostic tests to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes (free) (via @Onisillos)

Executive summary: List of Essential In Vitro Diagnostics, First edition (2018) – World Health Organization (free PDF)

2 – Report: The Characteristics of Pandemic Pathogens: Improving Pandemic Preparedness by Identifying the Attributes of Microorganisms Most Likely to Cause a Global Catastrophic Biological Event – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (free PDF)

News release: Study by center for health security identifies characteristics of microorganisms most likely to cause a global pandemic (free)

Commentaries: Is this the face of Disease X? The deadly pathogens which could cause the next global pandemic – The Telegraph (free) AND The Next Deadly Pandemic Could Be Unlike Any Threats We Know, Say Experts – Science Alert (free) AND The Next Pandemic: Forget Zika Or Ebola, Airborne Viruses Like The Flu And The Common Cold Are The Real Threat – Inquisitr (free) AND Report: Next Pandemic Will Likely Be Respiratory-Based Virus – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Related: Are we prepared for the looming epidemic threat? (free commentaries and video)

3 – Position Paper: Pathways and mechanisms linking dietary components to cardiometabolic disease: thinking beyond calories – Obesity Reviews (free)

Commentary: Some calories more harmful than others – University of California, via EurekAlert (free)

4 – Review: Diagnostic workup, etiologies and management of acute right ventricle failure – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

5 – Improving Prediction of Dementia in Primary Care – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Screening Tool Improves Dementia Prediction – Medscape (free registration required) AND Visual Test Could Help Predict Dementia Risk in Elders – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)

6 – Use of Flutemetamol F 18–Labeled Positron Emission Tomography and Other Biomarkers to Assess Risk of Clinical Progression in Patients With Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment – JAMA Neurology (free)

Commentaries: Biomarkers, PET imaging may predict cognitive decline en route to Alzheimer’s – Health Imaging (free) AND Amyloid PET Scan Can Predict Progression to Alzheimer’s in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment – MedicalResearch.com (free)

Related Studies: Elevated Brain Amyloid and Subsequent Cognitive Decline Among Cognitively Normal Persons (link to abstract and free commentaries) AND Identifying incipient dementia individuals using machine learning and amyloid imaging (free full-text and commentaries) AND High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (link to abstract and free commentaries)

7 – Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: April 2018 – eCancer News (free)

8 – Effect of Intravesical Instillation of Gemcitabine vs Saline Immediately Following Resection of Suspected Low-Grade Non–Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer on Tumor Recurrence: SWOG S0337 Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Intravesical Gemcitabine Therapy Cuts Bladder Cancer Recurrence – MPR (free) AND Simple post-surgery step reduces bladder cancer recurrence – SWOG, via EurekAlert (free)

9 – Drug-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in saphenous vein grafts: a double-blind, randomised trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Outcomes similar with DES vs. BMS in saphenous vein graft lesions – Healio (free registration required)

10 – Association of Colonoscopy Adenoma Findings With Long-term Colorectal Cancer Incidence – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related Reviews: Optimizing post‐polypectomy surveillance: A practical guide for the endoscopist – Digestive Endoscopy (free) AND Optimal Colonoscopy Surveillance Interval after Polypectomy – Clinical Endoscopy (free)

Related Guidelines: Guidelines for Colonoscopy Surveillance After Screening and Polypectomy: A Consensus Update by the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer (free) AND Korean Guidelines for Postpolypectomy Colonoscopy Surveillance – Digestive Endoscopy (free) AND Colorectal cancer surveillance after index colonoscopy: Guidance from the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (free) AND Post-polypectomy colonoscopy surveillance: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Guideline (free)

Advanced adenomas are associated with subsequent increased risk for colorectal cancer, but nonadvanced adenomas don’t seem to be associated with increased risk.