Thu, April 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Zika Virus Shedding in Semen of Symptomatic Infected Men – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Editorial: Virus in Semen and the Risk of Sexual Transmission (free)

Commentaries: New findings on Zika virus in semen may alter CDC guidance – CIDRAP (free) AND Study suggests risk of sexual transmission of Zika may dissipate quickly – STAT (free)

2 – American Gastroenterological Association Institute Guideline on Initial Management of Acute Pancreatitis – Gastroenterology (free)

Source: New Clinical Practice Guidelines, April 2018 Edition – Medscape (free registration required)

Related guideline: Clinical practice guideline: management of acute pancreatitis – Canadian Journal of Surgery (free)

3 – Guideline: Lyme disease – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

News release: New advice will help doctors spot and treat Lyme disease early, says NICE (free)

4 – β-Amyloid accumulation in the human brain after one night of sleep deprivation – Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (free)

Commentaries: Don’t lose sleep over reports that one bad night can spark dementia – NHS Choices (free) AND One night of sleep deprivation leads to increase in Alzheimer’s protein – New Atlas (free) AND Expert reaction to study investigating sleep deprivation and amyloid build up – Science Media Centre (free)

5 – Long-term risk of dementia among people with traumatic brain injury in Denmark: a population-based observational cohort study – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Study confirms link between traumatic brain injury and dementia – UW Medicine, via EurekAlert (free) AND Traumatic brain injury increases risk of dementia – OnMedica (free) AND Brain injury may increase dementia risk – NHS Choices (free)

Related articles: Traumatic brain injury and the risk of dementia diagnosis: A nationwide cohort study – PLOS One (free) AND Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football – JAMA (free)

6 – NIA-AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer’s disease – Alzheimer’s & Dementia (free)

Commentaries: Scientists Push Plan To Change How Researchers Define Alzheimer’s – NPR (free) AND Researchers Propose New Alzheimer’s Definition Based on Biomarkers – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND New biological research framework for Alzheimer’s seeks to spur discovery – NIH / National Institute on Aging, via EurekAlert (fee)

7 – Guideline: Evaluation and Management of Testosterone Deficiency – American Urological Association (free)

Commentary: AUA: New Guidelines for Diagnosis, Management of Testosterone Deficiency – MPR (free)

Related Guideline: Testosterone Therapy in Men With Hypogonadism: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (free)

8 – Estimating the health and economic effects of the proposed US Food and Drug Administration voluntary sodium reformulation: Microsimulation cost-effectiveness analysis – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentaries: FDA’s Proposed Sodium Reduction Plan Could Have a Big Impact, Analysis Suggests – TCTMD (free) AND US FDA sodium reformulation targets projected to save lives and costs – PLOS, via EurekAlert (free) AND Study highlights the health and economic benefits of a US salt reduction strategy – University of Liverpool (free)

9 – Investing in non-communicable disease prevention and management to advance the Sustainable Development Goals – The Lancet (free registration required)

See complete series: The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs and economics (free registration required for articles and commentaries)

“Economic case to #BeatNCDs: benefit-cost ratio of investing in prevention and treatment of #NCDs is 5.6 for economic returns – 10.9 if social returns are included” (via @TheLancet see Tweet)

10 – Effectiveness of preventive cognitive therapy while tapering antidepressants versus maintenance antidepressant treatment versus their combination in prevention of depressive relapse or recurrence (DRD study): a three-group, multicentre, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Preventive cognitive therapy is an effective alternative and addition to antidepressants for preventing depression relapse, study finds – ACP Internist (free) AND Preventive Cognitive Therapy Helps Limit Depression Recurrence – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Depression: preventive cognitive therapy improves outcome in recurrent depression – Univadis (free registration required)