Daily Archives: September 29, 2021
CDC Study: Side effect rates from a third Covid-19 vaccine dose similar to those after second shot.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:26h | UTC
M-A: Efficacy and secondary infection risk of tocilizumab, sarilumab and anakinra in COVID-19 patients.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:24h | UTC
Never Waste a Pandemic: Strategies to Increase Advance Care Planning Now.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:22h | UTCNever Waste a Pandemic: Strategies to Increase Advance Care Planning Now – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Opinion | Data from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:14h | UTCData from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year – STAT
Routine COVID testing doubles detection at 3 public schools.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:16h | UTCRoutine COVID testing doubles detection at 3 public schools – CIDRAP
Original study: Assessment of a Program for SARS-CoV-2 Screening and Environmental Monitoring in an Urban Public School District – JAMA Network Open
Characterizing long COVID: a living systematic review.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:29h | UTCCharacterising long COVID: a living systematic review – BMJ Global Health
Related:
Long Covid – The illness narratives.
New guidelines to help doctors manage long COVID patients published.
M-A: More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19. (several articles on the subject)
Commentary on Twitter
Our living systematic review on #LongCovid is finally out. It summarises the evidence and will be updated regularly. Free access here: https://t.co/3pxQiB4YEU@louise_sigfrid @mbms_ @laksh_manoharan @ISARIC1 @long_covid @ClaireHastie1 @mbms_ @Know_HG @jakesuett @gail_carson pic.twitter.com/iIbTf8YDQx
— Charitini Stavropoulou (@CharitiniSt) September 27, 2021
USPSTF Statement: Start low-dose aspirin after 12 weeks of gestation for women at high risk for preeclampsia.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:12h | UTCEditorial: Low-Dose Aspirin for the Prevention of Preeclampsia
Commentary: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia: USPSTF Recommendation – American College of Cardiology
Author interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality – JAMA
JAMA Patient Page: Use of Aspirin During Pregnancy to Prevent Preeclampsia
Guideline for Perioperative Care for People Living with Frailty Undergoing Elective and Emergency Surgery.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:10h | UTCNews release and infographic: Perioperative Care of People Living with Frailty – Centre for Perioperative Care
Commentary on Twitter
? Perioperative care for people with frailty: important new guideline
? Note the emphasis on education & training
➡️ Strong presence of need for #delirium assessment & good care
? https://t.co/TwDX7BYr5C@GeriSoc @CPOC_News @APSForg @ASER_hq @AgeAnaesthesia pic.twitter.com/x4YO9fHuQo
— Alasdair MacLullich (@A_MacLullich) September 28, 2021
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender and gender diverse health care.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:21h | UTC
AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Coagulation Disorders in Patients With Cirrhosis.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:07h | UTCSee also: AGA Technical Review on Coagulation in Cirrhosis – Gastroenterology
M-A: Magnitude of the placebo response across treatment modalities used for treatment-resistant depression in adults.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:04h | UTCInvited Commentary: Treatment-Resistant Depression—Resistant to Placebos as Well? – JAMA Network Open
Commentaries on Twitter
This systematic review and meta-analysis found that in studies of patients with treatment-resistant depression, the placebo effect was large and consistent despite the modality use. https://t.co/U6efJo7rJ8
— JAMA Network Open (@JAMANetworkOpen) September 24, 2021
Important systematic review study: The placebo effect in clinical trials of depression, even if treatment-resistant, is huge!
Magnitude of the Placebo Response Across Treatment-Resistant Depression in Adults https://t.co/ey2hIpE61r via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
— Yasser Ad-Dab'bagh (@yasseraddabbagh) September 25, 2021
Question
Why does research on 'treatment resistance' have such high placebo response?3 Answers
1)Research patients arent nearly as sick as patients in clinical practice
2)Research patients get much more attention than clinical patients
3)Research raises very high expectations https://t.co/f8CyTpKofV— Allen Frances (@AllenFrancesMD) September 26, 2021
(thread – click for more)
The paradox of "treatment resistance" in psychiatry that doesn't seem to generate much discussion: if the depression is so treatment resistant that we are considering things like invasive brain stimulation, how come it responds to "placebo" so robustly?/1https://t.co/oQOBPXtVXO
— Awais Aftab (@awaisaftab) September 26, 2021
WHO and partners call for urgent action on meningitis – New meningitis strategy aims to save more than 200,000 lives annually.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:06h | UTCSee guidance: Defeating meningitis by 2030: a global road map – World Health Organization
Commentaries:
WHO Launches First Global Strategy to Eliminate Bacterial Meningitis by 2030 – Health Policy Watch
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
?! First ever global strategy to #DefeatMeningitis – a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. ?https://t.co/wG6CqmOPH1 pic.twitter.com/0q6fkTwRHm
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) September 28, 2021
Preliminary randomized trial suggests metformin may prolong gestation in preterm pre-eclampsia.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:02h | UTCNews release: Diabetes drug may help to prolong preterm pregnancies in women with pre-eclampsia – British Medical Journal
Commentary: Metformin May Prolong Gestation in Women With Preterm Preeclampsia – HealthDay
Commentary on Twitter
This trial suggests that extended release metformin can prolong gestation in women with preterm pre-eclampsia, providing proof of concept that treatment of preterm pre-eclampsia is possible, say the authorshttps://t.co/gqVef7ss4s @cathycluver
— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) September 25, 2021
Editorial: It is time for consensus on ‘consensus statements’?
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:01h | UTCIt is time for consensus on ‘consensus statements’? – British Journal of Sports Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
Is it time for a #consensus on "consensus statements"??
This #OpenAccess article looks into if some of them deserve their prestige, bias in methods of development, and proposes future steps to improve their quality⬇️https://t.co/uZUObQX6FW pic.twitter.com/lF62IUm49D
— British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) (@BJSM_BMJ) September 25, 2021
Review: Sensory Dysfunction in Old Age.
29 Sep, 2021 | 09:57h | UTCSensory Dysfunction in Old Age – Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Review: Implementing an early rule-out pathway for acute myocardial infarction in clinical practice.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:00h | UTCImplementing an early rule-out pathway for acute myocardial infarction in clinical practice – Heart
Review: Monitoring of Treatment for Arterial Hypertension.
29 Sep, 2021 | 09:59h | UTCMonitoring of Treatment for Arterial Hypertension – Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019.
29 Sep, 2021 | 09:56h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
?️2019 #GBDstudy examines the #global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the #HIV epidemic from 1990-2019 for #204 countries and territories.
Read more from @TheLancet here⬇️https://t.co/d4s6Hw8uDX
— Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (@IHME_UW) September 27, 2021
Opinion | ‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities.
29 Sep, 2021 | 09:53h | UTC‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities – STAT
Opinion: Paying participants isn’t the way to improve clinical trial recruitment.
29 Sep, 2021 | 09:54h | UTCPaying participants isn’t the way to improve clinical trial recruitment – STAT