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Mon, Oct 24 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

24 Oct, 2016 | 00:30h | UTC

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1 – Media and Young Minds – Recommendations from The American Academy of Pediatrics

 

2 – Pediatricians soften guidelines on screen time for kids – STAT News

 

3 – This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study – Vox

 

4 – A Precision Medicine Approach to Clinical Trials – JAMA

 

5 – EM Nerd-The Case of the Incidental Bystander – EmCrit (interesting point of view about the Pulmonary Embolism trial just published in the NEJM)

 

6 – Recommendations for Management of Clinically Significant Drug-Drug Interactions With Statins and Select Agents Used in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Sources: Medscape commentary (Free registration required) and Physician’s First Watch commentary

 

7 – Sweetened beverage intake and risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and type 2 diabetes

 

8 – Updated WHO fact sheet on Cholera – World Health Organization

 

9 – Effectiveness of rapid response teams on rates of in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Journal of Hospital Medicine

Source: NEJM Journal Watch commentary ($$ resource to find articles of interest in all specialties)

 

10 – Global health: How far have we come? And how much more do we have to do? – World Economic Forum

 

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Fri, Oct 7 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

7 Oct, 2016 | 02:00h | UTC

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1 – Special issue of The Lancet with results from The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) Study  2015. The GBD Study is the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide

 

2 – Related Editorial: GBD 2015: from big data to meaningful change

 

3 – Life expectancy rises 10 years across globe, but more suffer in old age – The Guardian commentary on the GBD Study

 

4 – Colombian study bolsters evidence of Zika-GBS link – CIDRAP

 

5 – Zika situation report – World Health Organization

 

6 – What’s the Longest Humans Can Live? 115 Years, New Study Says – The New York Times

 

7 – Humans can only live so long, and we’re nearing the limit – STAT

 

8 – Scientists say Google is changing our brains – World Economic Forum

 

9 – Conservative Oxygen Strategy Tied to Lower Mortality in ICU – Physician’s First Watch

 

10 – Cervical Screening Window Could Be Extended Beyond 5 Years in Some Women, Study Suggests – Physician’s First Watch

 

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Thu, Oct 13 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

13 Oct, 2016 | 01:43h | UTC

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1 – Updated Blood Transfusion Guidelines Back a Conservative Approach – Physician’s First Watch

 

2 – Clinical Practice Guidelines From the AABB – Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds and Storage – JAMA

 

3 – AABB Red Blood Cell Transfusion Guidelines – JAMA

 

4 – Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier – Our World in Data

 

5 – Dabigatran vs. Rivaroxaban for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation – Journal of The American College of Cardiology

 

6 – Zika Virus 6 Months Later – JAMA

 

7 – The Next Zika – Scientific American

 

8 – Screening Mammography: Overdiagnosis More Common Than Early Detection – Physician’s First Watch

 

9 – Breast-Cancer Tumor Size, Overdiagnosis, and Mammography Screening Effectiveness – NEJM (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

10 – The value of blood lactate kinetics in critically ill patients: a systematic review – Critical Care

 

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Mon, Oct 17 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

17 Oct, 2016 | 00:40h | UTC

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1 – You Can Monitor Your Heart With A Smartphone. But Should You? – NPR Health News (RT @EricTopol)

 

2 – It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ – David Colquhoun | Aeon Essays

 

3 – Ebola drug narrowly missed threshold to prove effectiveness – STAT News

 

4 – The global burden of disease – The Economist

 

5 – Skip that annual physical exam: Evidence increasingly suggests it’s useless – SALON

 

6 – Hospital Patients at Greater Risk for C. diff If Prior Bed Occupant Took Antibiotics – Physician’s First Watch

 

7 – Prenatal Steroids Improve Neonatal Outcomes When Given After 34 Weeks’ Gestation – Physician’s First Watch

 

8 – Brazil will release billions of lab-grown mosquitoes to combat infectious disease. Will it work? – Science Magazine (RT @PreetiNMalani)

 

9 – Our life span could have reached its peak – World Economic Forum

 

10 – Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD – Scientific American

 

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Tue, Oct 11 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

11 Oct, 2016 | 02:11h | UTC

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1 – Sodium Wars: Where Some See Linear Link With All-Cause Death, Others See No Need to Change Western Ways – TCTMD Daily News

 

2 – Sodium Intake and All-Cause Mortality Over 20 Years in the Trials of Hypertension Prevention – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

3 – Featured Review: Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction – Cochrane Library

 

4 – Physical Activity and Anger or Emotional Upset as Triggers of Acute Myocardial Infarction: The INTERHEART Study – Circulation

 

5 – World Health Day 2017: Depression: Let’s talk – World Health Organization

 

6 – Medical school can be brutal, and it’s making many of us suicidal – The Washington Post

 

7 – Is it safe to wash my hands, doctor? – The Conversation (RT @Onisillos)

 

8 – Mapping the End of Malaria – Gates Notes

 

9 – Mapping Plasmodium falciparum Mortality in Africa between 1990 and 2015 – New England Journal of Medicine

 

10 – October 2016 REBEL Cast: IDSA Pneumonia Update – R.E.B.E.L. EM – Emergency Medicine Blog

 

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Fri, Oct 14 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

14 Oct, 2016 | 01:32h | UTC

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1 – Mammograms more likely to cause unneeded treatment than to save lives – STAT News

 

2 – Breast-Cancer Tumor Size, Overdiagnosis, and Mammography Screening Effectiveness – New England Journal of Medicine (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

3 – Global tuberculosis report – World Health Organization

 

4 – WHO report warns global actions and investments to end tuberculosis epidemic are falling far short – World Health Organization

 

5 – Transfusion thresholds and other strategies for guiding allogeneic red blood cell transfusion – The Cochrane Library

 

6 – Impact of Hypertension on Cognitive Function: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (RT @medpagetoday)

 

7 – Ten Top Technologies That Will Transform The Healthcare Industry – Forbes

 

8 – ASCO Offers Advice on Cervical Cancer Screening Based on Available Resources – Physician’s First Watch

 

9 – The Role of P Values and Hypothesis Tests in Clinical Research – JAMA Internal Medicine

 

10 – Association of Protein Intake With Mortality – JAMA Internal Medicine (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

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Thu, Oct 6 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

6 Oct, 2016 | 02:10h | UTC

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1 – Conservative vs Conventional Oxygen and ICU Mortality – JAMA (Free full-text) (RT @brhospitalist)

 

2 – Related Editorial: Oxygen in the ICU: To Much of a Good Thing? – JAMA (Free commentary)

 

3 – Investing in early childhood development essential to helping more children and communities thrive, new Lancet Series finds – WHO News Release (Free registration required for full-text articles in The Lancet)

 

4 – Effects of Folate on Chronic Kidney Disease Progression – JAMA Internal Medicine (Free full-text) (RT @edgarvlermamd)

 

5 – A Single Concussion May Have Lasting Impact – New York Times

 

6 – Pregabalin for pain in fibromyalgia in adults – Derry – 2016 – The Cochrane Library

 

7 – Palliative Care Consultations in Nursing Homes: It Can (and Should) Be Done – GeriPal

 

8 – Association of Protein Intake With Mortality – JAMA Internal Medicine (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

9 – Safety of extending screening intervals beyond five years in cervical screening programmes with testing for high risk human papillomavirus: 14 year follow-up of population based randomised cohort in the Netherlands | The BMJ (Free full-text)

 

10 – Short QT Syndrome – American College of Cardiology (Free full-text)

 

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Wed, Oct 12 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

12 Oct, 2016 | 02:00h | UTC

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1 – W.H.O. Urges Tax on Sugary Drinks to Fight Obesity – The New York Times

 

2 – Obesity and overweight – World Health Organization

 

3 – One reason so many scientific studies may be wrong – The Conversation

 

4 – The BMJ – Blog Archive – Helen Macdonald: Fixing evidence based medicine

 

5 – Manifesto – Evidence Live / Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford

 

6 – Prior bed occupants may raise risk for hospital C diff – CIDRAP

 

7 – Receipt of Antibiotics by Prior Bed Occupants and Clostridium difficile Risk – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

8 – Rethinking Development and Health: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study – Institute for Health Metrics, University of Washington

 

9 – Anticoagulation During Pregnancy: Evolving Strategies – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

 

10 – Sodium Intake and 20-Year Mortality in Trials of Hypertension Prevention – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

 

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Wed, Oct 5 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

5 Oct, 2016 | 02:11h | UTC

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1 – How machine learning could revolutionize medicine – STAT

 

2 – DT10: Medicine. An installment of the Digital Trends’ weekly series that examines how tech has changed every aspect of our lives – Digital Trends

 

3 – Three Cheers for the End of Fee-for-Service Health Care – The Wall Street Journal

 

4 – Children Who Get Zika After Birth Tend Not to Fall Seriously Ill, Study Finds – The New York Times

 

5 – Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression – JAMA Psychiatry

 

6 – Benefits of Low Sodium Intake Still up in the Air – Physician’s First Watch

 

7 – What Are Predatory Open Access Journals And Why Should We Worry? – Huffington Post Canada (RT @Onisillos)

 

8 – FOAMed Resource Series Part V: Critical Care – EMDocs

 

9 – Does Cooling Hurt In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes? – MedPage Today

 

10 – Safety of extending screening intervals beyond five years in cervical screening programmes with testing for high risk human papillomavirus: 14 year follow-up of population based randomised cohort in the Netherlands | The BMJ

 

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Mon, Oct 10 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

10 Oct, 2016 | 01:48h | UTC

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1 – Starts today! Social Determinants of Health – BMJ and FutureLearn (Free online course)

 

2 – Homeopathy not effective for treating any condition, Australian report finds – The Guardian

 

3 – An invisible unicorn has been grazing in my office for a month… Prove me wrong – Cochrane Library

 

4 – Facing a Silent Liver Disease Epidemic – Scientific American

 

5 – NASH, a stealthy liver disease, is subject of new attention – STAT News

 

6 – Explosion Injuries from E-Cigarettes – New England Journal of Medicine

 

7 – Can electronic cigarettes help people stop smoking, and are they safe to use for this purpose – Cochrane Library

 

8 – Can nicotine receptor partial agonists, including cytisine and varenicline, help people to stop smoking – Cochrane Library

 

9 – Dabigatran vs Rivaroxaban for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation – JAMA (link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

10 – More NOAC Comparisons See More Bleeding With Rivaroxaban: Is the ‘Writing on the Wall’? – TCTMD

 

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Fri, Sep 30 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

30 Sep, 2016 | 02:30h | UTC

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1 – Transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement for patients with severe, symptomatic, aortic stenosis at low to intermediate surgical risk: a clinical practice guideline | The BMJ (Free full-text)

 

2 – CDC Global Health – Stories – New Global Initiative Has the Power to Shake Up Cardiovascular Health (Free commentary)

 

3 – Zika: Worse Than Thalidomide? – JAMA (Free commentary)

 

4 – Dial M for Medicine – Genome (Free commentary)

(Source RT @EricTopol)

 

5 – ‘Three-parent baby’ claim raises hopes – and ethical concerns – Nature (Free commentary)

 

6 – UK bioethicists eye designer babies and CRISPR cows – Nature (Free commentary)

 

7 – Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of heart failure in four European countries: nested case-control study | The BMJ (Free full-text)

 

8 – More Evidence Linking NSAIDs to Heart Failure Hospitalization – Physician’s First Watch (Free commentary)

 

9 – Modern-Day Burn Resuscitation: Moving Beyond the Parkland Formula – EMDocs (Free full-text)

 

10 – Update on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease – NEJM Journal Watch (Free commentary)

 

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Tue, Oct 4 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

4 Oct, 2016 | 01:43h | UTC

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1 – Alternative Strategies to Inpatient Hospitalization – JAMA Internal Medicine (Source RT @EricTopol)

 

2 – Management of infection by the Zika virus – Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

 

3 – CDC: Asymptomatic Men with Possible Zika Exposure Should Wait 6 Months to Attempt Conception – Physician’s First Watch

 

4 – Evaluating Glucocorticoids for Sepsis – JAMA

 

5 – Corticosteroids for community-acquired pneumonia: a critical view of the evidence – European Respiratory Journal

 

6 – Prediabetes Risk in Adult Americans According to a Risk Test – JAMA Internal Medicine (Source RT @EricTopol)

 

7 – Prospective association of the Mediterranean diet with cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality and its population impact in a non-Mediterranean population: the EPIC-Norfolk study – BMC Medicine

 

8 – Food consumption and the actual statistics of cardiovascular diseases: an epidemiological comparison of 42 European countries – Food and Nutrition (RT @pascalmeier74 and @DrAseemMalhotra)

 

9 – The BMJ – Blog Archive – Richard Lehman’s journal review-3 October 2016

 

10 – The BMJ – Blog Archive – Richard Smith: The challenge of high need, high cost patients

 

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Wed, Sep 28 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

28 Sep, 2016 | 01:10h | UTC

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1 – Screening Colonoscopy Provides Little Benefit to Adults Aged 70–79 – Physician’s First Watch

 

2 – WHO releases country estimates on air pollution exposure and health impact – World Health Organization

 

3 – Coffee and cancer risk: A meta-analysis of prospective observational studies – Nature Scientific Reports

 

4 – Introducing a One-Page Adult Preventive Health Care Schedule: USPSTF Recommendations at a Glance – American Family Physicians

 

5 – Democratization of Health Care – JAMA

 

6 – New European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Updated Clinical Practice Guidelines

 

7 – Reducing Low-Value Care –  Health Affairs Blog

 

8 – Compression stockings for preventing deep vein thrombosis in airline passengers – The Cochrane Library

(Source: this article was first identified in EvidenceUpdates from BMJ)

 

9 – Morning Sickness Associated with Reduced Risk for Pregnancy Loss – Physician’s First Watch

 

10 – Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Series – Critical Care

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Mon, Oct 3 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

3 Oct, 2016 | 02:47h | UTC

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1 – Gonorrhea may become resistant to all antibiotics soon – STAT

 

2 – The doctor will see you now… on your smartphone – The Guardian

 

3 – Ten Commandments for the resilient practitioner – British Journal of General Practice

 

4 – International day of older people 2016 – World Health Organization

 

5 – The Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health – World Health Organization

 

6 – Discrimination and negative attitudes about ageing are bad for your health – World Health Organization

 

7 – Fact file: Misconceptions on ageing and health – World Health Organization

 

8 – The Over-Medicated Population – Volteface

 

9 – Pyrexia in the ICU – Critical Care Series

 

10 – Replacing a peripheral venous catheter when clinically indicated versus routine replacement – Cochrane Library

 

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Early introduction of allergenic food might prevent allergies latter

26 Sep, 2016 | 22:41h | UTC

Preventing Food Allergies May Start in Infancy: Significant results for egg and peanut, but not fish or gluten – MedPage Today commentary (Free)

Timing of Allergenic Food Introduction to the Infant Diet and Risk of Allergic or Autoimmune DiseaseA Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA (Link to abstract – $$$ required for full-text)

Early Introduction of Egg and Peanut Associated with Reduced Allergy Risks – Physician’s First Watch commentary (Free)

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Free Online Course: Social Determinants of Health

26 Sep, 2016 | 22:44h | UTC

Starts 10 oct 2016. Social Determinants of Health: What Is Your Role? – FutureLearn and BMJ Free Online Course

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Thu, Sep 29 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

29 Sep, 2016 | 02:32h | UTC

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1 – BMJ vs The Lancet: there are no winners in the ‘statins war’ – The Conversation (Free commentary)

(Source RT @Onisillos)

 

2 – Neglected Tropical Diseases – Global Health Action (Free resources)

(Source RT @WBG_Health)

 

3 – Adjunctive Azithromycin Prophylaxis for Cesarean Delivery – New England Journal of Medicine (Free full-text)

 

4 – Related Editorial: Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Cesarean Delivery – When Broader Is Better – New England Journal of Medicine (Free commentary)

 

5 – Time to Treatment With Endovascular Thrombectomy and Outcomes From Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-analysis – JAMA (Free full-text)

 

6 – Endovascular Thrombectomy Better Than Medical Therapy for Stroke – But Only When Performed Early – Physician’s First Watch (Free commentary)

 

7 – Thrombectomy: The Golden 7.3 Hours – Medpage Today (Free commentary)

 

8 – Tailoring Complex Care Management for High-Need, High-Cost Patients – JAMA (Free full-text)

 

9 – Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients – An Urgent Priority – New England Journal of Medicine (Free full-text)

 

10 – Lowering the Bar on the Low-Fat Diet – JAMA (Free full-text)

(Source RT @EricTopol)

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Is paracetamol safe and effective?

26 Sep, 2016 | 22:42h | UTC

Paracetamol: widely used and largely ineffective – Cochrane Library commentary (Free full-text)

Paracetamol for low back pain – Cochrane Library (Link to summary)

The trouble with Tylenol and pregnancy – New York Times commentary (Free)

Association of Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy With Behavioral Problems in Childhood: Evidence Against Confounding – JAMA Internal Medicine (Link to abstract – $$$ required for full-text)

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Tue, Sep 27 – “Top 10 Medical News” Newsletter

27 Sep, 2016 | 01:49h | UTC

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1 – 26 September 2016: World contraception day – Contraception: past, present and future and why it matters – World Health Organization

 

2 – Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management | NICE Guidance and guidelines

 

3 – Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds – The Guardian

 

4 – Global Health Impacts of Vector-Borne Diseases: Workshop Summary – The National Academies Press

 

5 – Traditional opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: untidy, unsatisfactory, and probably unsuitable – Cochrane Library

 

6 – Top scientists cautious about curing cancer with immunotherapy – STAT News

 

7 – ACOG Expands Use of Corticosteroids Before Preterm Birth – Physician’s First Watch

 

8 – Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Fetal Maturation – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

 

9 – Researchers say there are no benefits of testosterone treatments for men – The Guardian

 

10 – Treatment of Men for ‘Low Testosterone’: A Systematic Review – PLOS Medicine

 

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New ESMO Updated Clinical Practice Guidelines

27 Sep, 2016 | 21:21h | UTC

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Metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Biliary cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Gastric cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Oesophageal cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Renal cell carcinoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in adult patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Newly diagnosed and relapsed follicular lymphoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

 

Prevention and screening in BRCA mutation carriers and other breast/ovarian hereditary cancer syndromes: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for cancer prevention and screening

 

Management of febrile neutropaenia: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines

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New NEJM collection of articles about the challenges in clinical trials

24 Sep, 2016 | 14:41h | UTC

The Changing Face of Clinical Trials: A collection of articles that examine the current challenges in the design, performance, and interpretation of clinical trials – New England Journal of Medicine (Free full-text articles)

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New Hepatitis C Guideline released by IDSA and AASLD

24 Sep, 2016 | 19:45h | UTC

HCV Guidance: Recommendations for Testing, Managing, and Treating Hepatitis C – American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and Infectious Diseases Society of America (Free full-text)

Guideline: Test for HBV Before Treating Patients With HCV – Medscape commentary (Free registration required)

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Just Released: Guidelines for the Management of Severe TBI

23 Sep, 2016 | 16:47h | UTC

Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition – Neurology (Free PDF)

(Source: @CritCareReviews)

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Prevention of Zika Sexual Transmission

26 Sep, 2016 | 22:43h | UTC

Prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus: Interim guidance – World health Organization (Free)

Zika and Sexual Transmission – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Free)

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First issue of our “Top 10 Medical News” newsletter

24 Sep, 2016 | 14:17h | UTC

Sáb, set 24, 2016 – Our daily newsletter is a selection of the Top 10 Medical News Stories from the previous day. Feel free to subscribe and receive them by email.

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