Daily Archives: July 26, 2017
Wed, July 26 – 10 Stories of The Day!
26 Jul, 2017 | 01:33h | UTC
See also: Executive Summary (free)
Commentaries: CDC Updates Guidelines on Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Exposure – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Updated CDC Guidance on Zika in Pregnancy – Medscape (free registration required)
Author interview: Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players (free video)
Commentaries: High Prevalence of Evidence of CTE in Brains of Deceased Football Players – JAMA Network (free) AND Brain disease CTE seen in most football players in large report – STAT News (free) AND 110 N.F.L. Brains – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Signs of brain disease in 99 percent of ex-NFL players studied: paper – Reuters (free) AND Study: CTE Found In Nearly All Donated NFL Player Brains – NPR (free)
“A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head” (from NYT).
Commentary: Long-Acting Injectable HIV Regimens Show Promise – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Injections ‘next revolution’ in HIV: study – BBC (free)
6 – Guidelines for the understanding and management of pain in chronic pancreatitis – Pancreatology (free)
7 – Cardiocerebral and cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 2017 update – Acute Medicine & Surgery (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
9 – Report: WHO MERS-CoV Global Summary and Assessment of Risk – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Commentary: WHO: Hospital outbreaks underscore MERS challenges – CIDRAP (free)
See also: WHO’s Work on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Commentaries: Study: High-dose flu vaccine cuts hospitalizations in nursing home residents – CIDRAP (free) AND High-dose influenza vaccine for nursing home residents reduces hospitalisations – OnMedica (free) AND High Dose Influenza Vaccine Leads to Lower Rate of Hospitalization From Respiratory Illnesses in Nursing Home Residents – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, via NewsWise (free)