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Daily Archives: July 5, 2021

WHO challenges Pfizer and Moderna to openly share their know-how to accelerate COVID vaccine production.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:36h | UTC

WHO Challenges Pfizer and Moderna to Openly Share Their Know-How to Accelerate COVID Vaccine Production – Health Policy Watch

 

Joint COVAX Statement on the Equal Recognition of Vaccines – COVAX urges all government authorities to recognize as fully vaccinated all people who have received COVID-19 vaccines that have been deemed safe and effective by WHO.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:39h | UTC

Joint COVAX Statement on the Equal Recognition of Vaccines – World Health Organization

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

CDC Report: Underlying medical conditions and severe illness among 540,667 adults hospitalized with COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:40h | UTC

Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Opinion | Covid is a greater risk to young people than the vaccines.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:34h | UTC

Covid Is a Greater Risk to Young People Than the Vaccines – The New York Times

Counterpoint: Weighing myocarditis cases, ACIP failed to balance the harms vs benefits of 2nd doses – by Wesley Pegden AND Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Concerns Demand Respect, Not Absolutism – Medscape (free registration required)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Russia pushes ahead with open license approach to Sputnik V – despite WHO concerns over manufacturing practices.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:35h | UTC

Russia Pushes Ahead with Open License Approach to Sputnik V – Despite WHO Concerns Over Manufacturing Practices – Health Policy Watch

 

Roundup on Covid vaccines | A Big Hit, A Big Miss, & Mixed Vaccine Schedules: The 18-Month Mark.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:31h | UTC

A Big Hit, A Big Miss, & Mixed Vaccine Schedules: The 18-Month Mark – Absolutely Maybe Blog

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Why Covid-19 outbreaks in countries using Chinese vaccines don’t necessarily mean the shots have failed.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:30h | UTC

Why Covid-19 outbreaks in countries using Chinese vaccines don’t necessarily mean the shots have failed – CNN

 

What are the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines? And how effective are they? Two experts explain.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:28h | UTC

Related: What are the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines? And how effective are they? Two experts explain – The Conversation

 

Proof-of-concept trial: A Transglutaminase 2 inhibitor attenuated gluten-induced duodenal mucosal damage in patients with celiac disease.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:56h | UTC

A Randomized Trial of a Transglutaminase 2 Inhibitor for Celiac Disease – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: NEJM: First Effective Non-Dietary Treatment Of Celiac Disease – MedicalResearch

 

RCT: Awake prone positioning in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 – no difference in intubation rates compared to standard care.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:24h | UTC

Awake prone positioning in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19: the PROFLO multicenter randomized clinical trial – Critical Care

Related: Feasibility and Physiological Effects of Prone Positioning in Non-intubated Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure due to COVID-19

 

Germany issues world’s strongest recommendation for mixing Covid-19 vaccines.

5 Jul, 2021 | 02:27h | UTC

Germany issues world’s strongest recommendation for mixing Covid-19 vaccines – CNN

Related: [Preprint] Mixing Covid jabs has good immune response, study finds – “The Com-Cov trial looked at the efficacy of either two doses of Pfizer, two of AstraZeneca, or one of them followed by the other. All combinations worked well, priming the immune system”.

 

RCT showed improved outcomes with fetal surgery for severe left diaphragmatic hernia.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:53h | UTC

Randomized Trial of Fetal Surgery for Severe Left Diaphragmatic Hernia – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text – Full text can be found here)

Commentary: Fetal Surgery Boosts Survival for Babies With Severe Birth Defect – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

RCT: Consuming a diet with more fish fats, less vegetable oils can reduce migraine headaches.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:51h | UTC

News release: Consuming a diet with more fish fats, less vegetable oils can reduce migraine headaches – NIH News Releases

Original study: Dietary alteration of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids for headache reduction in adults with migraine: randomized controlled trial – The BMJ

Editorial: Dietary omega 3 fatty acids for migraine

Commentary: Expert reaction to a study looking at diets rich in omega 3 fatty acids and headache in adults with migraine – Science Media Centre

 

Seminar | Acute respiratory distress syndrome.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:57h | UTC

Acute respiratory distress syndrome – The Lancet

 

Review | Anomalous coronary arteries: when to follow-up, risk stratify, and plan intervention.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:46h | UTC

Anomalous Coronary Arteries: When to Follow-up, Risk Stratify, and Plan Intervention – Current Cardiology Reports

 

Cohort study: Burden, treatment use, and outcome of secondary mitral regurgitation across the spectrum of heart failure.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:50h | UTC

Burden, treatment use, and outcome of secondary mitral regurgitation across the spectrum of heart failure: observational cohort study – The BMJ

Commentary: Study: Valvular heart disease in patients with chronic heart failure has been underestimated – Medical University of Vienna / NewsMedical

 

Review | Perioperative cardiac risk reduction in noncardiac surgery.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:45h | UTC

Perioperative Cardiac Risk Reduction in Noncardiac Surgery – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

 

Acute kidney injury in the critically ill: an updated review on pathophysiology and management.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:49h | UTC

Acute kidney injury in the critically ill: an updated review on pathophysiology and management – Intensive Care Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

AHA Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:41h | UTC

ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis:

Part 1 of 2—Evidence Base and Standardized Methods of Imaging

Part 2 of 2—Diagnostic Criteria and Appropriate Utilization – Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

 

Review | Users’ guide to medical decision analysis.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:43h | UTC

Users’ Guide to Medical Decision Analysis – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

 

Deep learning in histopathology: the path to the clinic.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:33h | UTC

Deep learning in histopathology: the path to the clinic – Nature Medicine

Related: Current and future applications of artificial intelligence in pathology: a clinical perspective – Journal of Clinical Pathology

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Aspirin and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analyses of 118 observational studies of aspirin and 18 cancers.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:42h | UTC

Aspirin and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analyses of 118 observational studies of aspirin and 18 cancers – ecancermedicalscience

Commentaries: Expert reaction to review and analysis of observational studies on aspirin and cancer survival – Science Media Centre AND Major review of studies: Aspirin could cut risk of death in cancer patients by 20% – Cardiff University

“It is randomized trials that provide definitive evidence to consider changes to clinical practice. The results of this review provide impetus for cancer patients to consider participation in these trials” (from Science Media Centre)

 

Consensus Statement: Transition to adulthood and transfer to adult care of adolescents with congenital heart disease.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:37h | UTC

Transition to adulthood and transfer to adult care of adolescents with congenital heart disease: a global consensus statement of the ESC Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (ACNAP), the ESC Working Group on Adult Congenital Heart Disease (WG ACHD), the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR), the Asia-Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society (APPCS), the Inter-American Society of Cardiology (IASC), the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ), the International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ISACHD), the World Heart Federation (WHF), the European Congenital Heart Disease Organisation (ECHDO), and the Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts (Global ARCH) – European Heart Journal

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Single-center, open-label RCT: Stimulant and osmotic laxatives after colorectal surgery results in earlier recovery of gastrointestinal function and reduces the incidence of prolonged postoperative ileus, without effects in the duration of hospital day or 30-day postoperative complications.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:26h | UTC

Impact of STIMUlant and osmotic LAXatives (STIMULAX trial) on gastrointestinal recovery after colorectal surgery: randomized clinical trial – British Journal of Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

 

Study Commentary | “Blood test finds 50 types of cancer” – we’ve been down this path before.

5 Jul, 2021 | 01:31h | UTC

“Blood test finds 50 types of cancer” – we’ve been down this path before – HealthNewsReview

Original study: Clinical validation of a targeted methylation-based multi-cancer early detection test using an independent validation set – Annals of Oncology

 

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