Daily Archives: October 27, 2017

Fri, October 27 – 10 Stories of The Day!

27 Oct, 2017 | 00:22h | UTC

 

1 – Screening for Lung Cancer: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report – American College of Chest Physicians (free)

News release: American College of Chest Physicians unveils new lung cancer screening guidelines at CHEST 2017 (free)

 

2 – Guideline: Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused – World Health Organization (free)

News release: Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused (free)

 

3 – Payments by US pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to US medical journal editors: retrospective observational study – The BMJ (free)

“Industry payments to journal editors are common and often large, particularly for certain subspecialties. Journals should consider the potential impact of such payments on public trust in published research”.

 

4 – Pregnancy, thrombophilia, and the risk of a first venous thrombosis: systematic review and bayesian meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

“Women with antithrombin, protein C, or protein S deficiency or with homozygous factor V Leiden should be considered for antepartum or postpartum thrombosis prophylaxis, or both”.

 

5 – Regular antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in young children with sickle cell disease – Cochrane Library (free)

Original article: Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

 

6 – World leaders rehearse for a pandemic that will come ‘sooner than we expect’ – The Washington Post (free)

 

7 – Perspective: HIV Drug Resistance: An Emerging Threat to Epidemic Control – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

 

8 – Terbinafine is probably first choice oral drug for fungal toenail infection – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Oral antifungal medication for toenail onychomycosis – Cochrane Library (free)

 

9 – Clinical guidelines for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis: summary statements and recommendations from the Italian Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology – Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (free)

 

10 – Austrian consensus guidelines on the management and treatment of portal hypertension (Billroth III) – Wiener klinische Wochenschrift (free)

 

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