Fri, Dec 9 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

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1 – Meta-analysis of Egg Consumption and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke – Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Eggs are not associated with increased cardiovascular risk and may be protective against stroke

Source: Medscape – Eggs Linked to Decreased Stroke, No Increase in CHD Risk (Free registration required)

2 – Prevent HIV, test and treat all: WHO support for country impact – World Health Organization Progress Report 2016

3 – Interpreting Geographic Variations in Results of Randomized, Controlled Trials – New England Journal of Medicine

4 – End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality – Physician’s First Watch

5 – Association of End-of-Rotation Resident Transitions and Patient Mortality – JAMA (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

6 – Prolonged Zika Virus Viremia during Pregnancy – New England Journal of Medicine

7 – More data show Zika viremia in mothers, fetal infection link – CIDRAP

8 – Are we facing a noncommunicable disease pandemic? – Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

9 – Controversial impact factor gets a heavyweight rival – Nature

10 – Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability – Absolutely Maybe