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Systematic Review: Virtual care in patients with cancer.

27 Oct, 2021 | 01:04h | UTC

Virtual Care in Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review – Current Oncology

 

[Press release – not published yet] Moderna says its COVID vaccine produced a strong antibody response for kids 6 to 11.

26 Oct, 2021 | 02:06h | UTC

Press release: Moderna Announces Positive Top Line Data from Phase 2/3 Study of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children 6 to 11 Years of Age

Commentary: Moderna says new data supports its COVID vaccine for kids 6 to 11 – NPR

 

Case Series: Toxic effects from ivermectin use associated with prevention and treatment of Covid-19.

26 Oct, 2021 | 02:02h | UTC

Toxic Effects from Ivermectin Use Associated with Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

 

Pragmatic randomized trial found similar rates of surgical site infectious with 2% alcoholic chlorhexidine skin preparation compared with povidone–iodine, or with triclosan-coated sutures compared with non-coated sutures.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:52h | UTC

Reducing surgical site infections in low-income and middle-income countries (FALCON): a pragmatic, multicentre, stratified, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet

Commentaries:

Prevention of surgical site infection in low-resource settings – The Lancet

Urgent changes needed to global guidelines designed to stop surgical infection – University of Birmingham

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Infection with Covid-19 carries a much higher risk of developing neurological complications than Covid-19 vaccines.

26 Oct, 2021 | 02:04h | UTC

News Release: Infection with Covid-19 carries a much higher risk of developing neurological complications than a vaccine, says new study – University of Nottingham

Original Study: Neurological complications after first dose of COVID-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 infection – Nature Medicine

Commentaries:

Covid: Vaccine study links virus to rare neurological illness – BBC

Expert reaction to study looking at rare neurological complications after SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination – Science Media Centre

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Cohort Study: Bacterial Superinfection Pneumonia in Patients Mechanically Ventilated for COVID-19 Pneumonia – “Bacterial superinfection within 48 hours of intubation was detected in 21 percent of patients”.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:59h | UTC

Bacterial Superinfection Pneumonia in Patients Mechanically Ventilated for COVID-19 Pneumonia – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Commentary: Potential Overuse of Antibiotics Found in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia – American Thoracic Society

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?

26 Oct, 2021 | 02:01h | UTC

COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus? – The Conversation

 

What It Means To Be Fully Vaccinated.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:57h | UTC

What It Means To Be Fully Vaccinated – Think Global Health

 

Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: Current Understanding and Challenges.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:47h | UTC

Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: Current Understanding and Challenges – Diabetes Care

Related:

ADA Consensus Report: The Management of Type 1 Diabetes in Adults.

Guideline: ADA 2021 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes

 

RCT: Laparoscopic vs. open distal gastrectomy for locally advanced gastric cancer.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:40h | UTC

Laparoscopic vs Open Distal Gastrectomy for Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer: Five-Year Outcomes From the CLASS-01 Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Consensus and algorithm on the diagnosis and management of Cushing’s disease: a guideline update.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:49h | UTC

Consensus on diagnosis and management of Cushing’s disease: a guideline update – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (free registration required)

Related:

Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Medical Treatment for Cushing’s Syndrome

COVID-19 and Cushing’s Syndrome Recommendations

Practice recommendations for the management of the most common forms of secondary hypertension, including primary aldosteronism, renovascular hypertension, pheochromocytoma, Cushing’s syndrome, and sleep apnea

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

M-A: Strategies for antibiotic administration for bowel preparation among patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery – “the addition of oral antibiotics to intravenous antibiotics was associated with a reduction in the incidence of incisional surgical site infection by more than 50%”.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:42h | UTC

Strategies for Antibiotic Administration for Bowel Preparation Among Patients Undergoing Elective Colorectal Surgery: A Network Meta-analysis – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

Commentaries:

Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery: Have All Questions Been Answered? – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

Oral Abx Cut Surgical Site Infections in Colorectal Surgeries — Network meta-analysis finds over 50% SSI reduction with addition of oral to IV antibiotics – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Oral + IV Antibiotics for Bowel Prep Significantly Reduces Surgical Site Infections – Physician’s Weekly

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Anticancer drug-induced life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias: a World Health Organization pharmacovigilance study.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:26h | UTC

Anticancer drug-induced life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias: a World Health Organization pharmacovigilance study – European Heart Journal

Editorial: QT prolongation and cancer therapeutics: a coming Tempest or Much Ado About Nothing?

Commentary: Anticancer Drug-Induced Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmias – American College of Cardiology

Related: AHA Scientific Statement: Recognition, prevention, and management of arrhythmias and autonomic disorders in cardio-oncology.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

M-A: Data from randomized trials showed nonfatal myocardial infarction cannot be established as a good surrogate for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:36h | UTC

Assessment of Nonfatal Myocardial Infarction as a Surrogate for All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Treatment or Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Nonfatal Myocardial Infarction—Poor Surrogate for Mortality – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

 

Review: Thoracic involvement and imaging patterns in IgG4-related disease.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:22h | UTC

Thoracic involvement and imaging patterns in IgG4-related disease – European Respiratory Review

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Association of a sweetened beverage tax with reduction in soda consumption in high school students.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:30h | UTC

Association of a Sweetened Beverage Tax With Soda Consumption in High School Students – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Philadelphia’s ‘soda tax’ cut the number of sugar-sweetened beverages high school students drank per week by 30%, study finds – News Break

Related:

Changes in food purchases after the Chilean policies on food labelling, marketing, and sales in schools: a before and after study.

UK National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says.

Perspective – Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons to date and the future of taxation

Cohort Study: Association Between Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages and Soft Drink Consumption

Meta-Analysis: Impact of Sugar‐sweetened Beverage Taxes on Purchases and Dietary Intake

Cochrane Review: Environmental Interventions to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar‐sweetened Beverages and Their Effects on Health

Study: Snack Tax May be More Effective than a Sugary Drink Tax to Tackle Obesity

Sugar Tax: Why Health Experts Want it But Politicians and Industry are Resisting

The Effect of Food Price Changes on Consumer Purchases: A Randomized Experiment

Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Associated with Reduced Consumption

Soda Tax Linked to a 50 Percent Reduction in Sugary Drink Consumption

AAP/AHA Policy Statement: Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents

Fiscal policies for diet and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization

The Lancet taskforce on NCDs and economics

To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times

Reducing cardiovascular disease burden through targeted dietary policies

Fiscal policies for the prevention of diseases

The potential impact of food taxes and subsidies on cardiovascular disease and diabetes burden and disparities

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Management of patients with cervical spine trauma in the emergency department: a systematic critical appraisal of guidelines with a view to developing standardized strategies for clinical practice.

26 Oct, 2021 | 01:17h | UTC

Management of patients with cervical spine trauma in the emergency department: a systematic critical appraisal of guidelines with a view to developing standardized strategies for clinical practice – Internal and Emergency Medicine

 

Opinion | COVID STEROID-2: Double the steroid, double the fun? – “Dexamethasone 6 mg/day alone is likely suboptimal for most patients with severe COVID pneumonia. Dexamethasone 12 mg/day may provide a reasonable intensity of immunomodulation”.

25 Oct, 2021 | 00:01h | UTC

COVID STEROID-2: Double the steroid, double the fun? – PulmCrit

Original study: RCT: In adults with Covid-19 and severe hypoxemia, 12 mg vs. 6 mg of Dexamethasone did not result in a statistically significant difference in the number of days alive without life support.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: Does infection with or vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lead to lasting immunity?

25 Oct, 2021 | 00:03h | UTC

Does infection with or vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lead to lasting immunity? – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Half doses, third doses, kids’ doses: Covid vaccine delivery goes next-level difficult.

24 Oct, 2021 | 23:52h | UTC

Half doses, third doses, kids’ doses: Covid vaccine delivery goes next-level difficult – STAT

 

Review: Cardiac involvement in the long-term implications of COVID-19.

24 Oct, 2021 | 23:59h | UTC

Cardiac involvement in the long-term implications of COVID-19 – Nature Reviews Cardiology

 

How you’ll know when Covid-19 has gone from “pandemic” to “endemic”.

24 Oct, 2021 | 23:53h | UTC

How you’ll know when Covid-19 has gone from “pandemic” to “endemic” – Vox

 

AstraZeneca vaccination not linked to reduced fertility rates and adverse birth outcomes.

24 Oct, 2021 | 23:58h | UTC

Fertility rates and birth outcomes after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccination – The Lancet

Related:

A case-controlled study showed Covid-19 vaccination during early pregnancy was not associated with increased risk of first-trimester miscarriage.

Editorial: Covid-19 treatments and vaccines must be evaluated in pregnancy.

Cohort study: Vaccinated pregnant patients had 90% lower risk of severe or critical Covid-19 compared with unvaccinated pregnant patients.

Two observational studies suggest spontaneous abortion is not increased following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination during pregnancy.

Study shows high effectiveness of the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy.

5 Crucial Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy.

CDC Guidance: Pregnant people should be vaccinated against COVID-19.

ACOG and SMFM Recommend COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant Individuals – “ACOG encourages its members to enthusiastically recommend vaccination to their patients.”

Cohort study: Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine associated with 78% lower risk of Covid-19 in pregnancy.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Coronavirus: Chinese residents start receiving vaccine boosters.

24 Oct, 2021 | 23:51h | UTC

Coronavirus: Chinese residents start receiving vaccine boosters – South China Morning Post

 

2021 Interim Guidance to Health Care Providers for Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19.

24 Oct, 2021 | 23:49h | UTC

2021 Interim Guidance to Health Care Providers for Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Commentary: CPR on a COVID Patient: Not a Moment to Waste Looking for PPE: Updated AHA guidance says resuscitation should not be delayed by mask availability – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

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