Wed, September 19 – 10 Stories of The Day!
19 Sep, 2018 | 02:19h | UTC
1 – Global Tuberculosis Report 2018 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Commentaries: UN tuberculosis summit ‘historic opportunity’ to put response ‘back on track’: new WHO report – UN News (free) AND WHO TB Report Sets Stage for Historic U.N.TB Meeting – American Thoracic Society (free) AND WHO report warns efforts to end TB are falling short – CIDRAP (free)
2 – Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free for a limited period) (via @Abraham_RMI)
News Release: Qure.ai’s qXR Algorithm can ID Abnormal Chest X-rays With Unprecedented Accuracy (free)
Commentary: AI algorithm IDs abnormal chest x-rays with 90% accuracy – Health Imaging (free) AND AI startup trains algorithm with 1.2M chest x-rays, confirms its accuracy – Radiology Business (free)
4 – Classification and mutation prediction from non–small cell lung cancer histopathology images using deep learning – Nature Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Artificial intelligence can determine lung cancer type – eCancer News (free) AND Google AI Tool Identifies a Tumor’s Mutations From An Image – WIRED (free)
Author Interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Behavioral Interventions to Prevent Adult Obesity-Related Outcomes (free)
Editorials: Weight Management in Adults With Obesity: What Is a Primary Care Clinician to Do? (free for a limited period) AND Treating Obesity—Moving From Recommendation to Implementation (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Intensive lifestyle changes best for people with BMI above 30, task force says – UPI (free) AND Doctors Should Send Obese Patients To Diet Counseling, Panel Says. But Many Don’t – NPR (free)
7 – Daily Fasting Improves Health and Survival in Male Mice Independent of Diet Composition and Calories – Cell Metabolism (link to abstract and infographic – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Fasting increases health and lifespan in male mice – NIH Research Matters (free) AND Study: Mice healthier, live longer with increased daily fasting times – UPI (free) AND Study: Daily Fasting Improves Health and Longevity in Male Mice – Sci News (free)
8 – Higher Whole-Grain Intake Is Associated with Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes among Middle-Aged Men and Women: The Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Cohort – The Journal of Nutrition (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: What you need to know about claims that whole grains can prevent diabetes – Health News Review (free)
9 – Association of Hospital Participation in a Medicare Bundled Payment Program With Volume and Case Mix of Lower Extremity Joint Replacement Episodes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Can Paying for a Health Problem as a Whole, Not Piece by Piece, Save Medicare Money? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Medicare’s Bundled Payment Program–Does it Change Hospital Volume or Case Mix? – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND One of Obamacare’s big experiments to lower costs is working surprisingly well – VOX (free)
10 – Prevalence of Burnout Among Physicians: A Systematic Review – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Doctors Today May Be Miserable, But Are They ‘Burnt Out’? – NPR (free) AND Physician burnout taking center stage – Reuters (free) AND Burnout Found to Be Common Among U.S. Resident Physicians – Psychiatric News Alert (free)
Related: Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free) AND To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Beyond Burnout — Redesigning Care to Restore Meaning and Sanity for Physicians (free) AND The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine – The Atlantic (free) AND To Combat Physician Burnout and Improve Care, Fix the Electronic Health Record (free commentaries)