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What Helps Older People Take Their Medication Correctly?
8 Jun, 2020 | 04:22h | UTCWhat helps older people take their medication correctly? – Evidently Cochrane
Original Review: Interventions for improving medication‐taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications – Cochrane Library
Mon June 08 – 10 Stories of The Day!
8 Jun, 2020 | 04:49h | UTC
1 – WHO Now Recommends the Use of Face Masks by the General Public
Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19 – World Health Organization
Media Briefing: WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 5 June 2020
Commentaries: The WHO has new guidelines on face masks to fight Covid-19 – Vox AND WHO Urges Demonstrators To Protect Themselves From COVID-19, Issues New Mask Guidelines – Health Policy Watch AND WHO advises public to wear face masks when unable to distance – The Guardian AND Anyone Living in Areas With ‘Widespread’ COVID-19 Transmission Should Wear Masks, WHO Says – TIME
“In light of evolving evidence, WHO advises that governments should encourage the general public to wear masks where there is widespread transmission and physical distancing is difficult, such as on public transport, in shops or in other confined or crowded environments.” (from WHO Director-General’s media briefing)
2 – We can’t be 100% sure face masks work – but that shouldn’t stop us wearing them – The Guardian
3 – Randomized Trial: No Benefit From the Use of Hydroxychloroquine in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
Statement from the Chief Investigators of the Recovery Study: No clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
6 – Ten things we learned about COVID-19 – Intensive Care Medicine
8 – Will COVID-19 Kill the Routine Physical Exam? – Scientific American
10 –COVID-19 Updates / 08 June 2020 Edition
08 June 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)
Lancet, New England Journal Retract Covid-19 Studies, Including one That Raised Safety Concerns About Malaria Drugs
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:07h | UTCScience: Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions
Review: Serodiagnostics for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–Related Coronavirus-2
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:03h | UTCRelated (just published): Serology assays to manage COVID-19 – Science
Observational Study: Association of Hypertension and Antihypertensive Treatment with COVID-19 Mortality
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:05h | UTCEditorial: Renin–angiotensin system inhibitors in the COVID-19 pandemic: consequences of antihypertensive drugs
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at link between high blood pressure and risk of dying from COVID-19 – Science Media Centre AND Blood pressure drugs linked to lower COVID-19 mortality: study – Reuters
Editorial: Thinking of Risk in the Era of COVID-19
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:00h | UTCThinking of Risk in the Era of COVID-19 – JAMA
Related Article: Making Decisions in a COVID-19 World – JAMA
COVID-19: 10 Things I Wished I’d Known Some Months Ago
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:04h | UTCCOVID-19: 10 things I wished I’d known some months ago – Intensive Care Medicine
COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:56h | UTCCOVID-19 Can Last for Several Months – The Atlantic
Related Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1268570212191928320
COVID-19 Vaccine Development Pipeline Gears Up
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:59h | UTCCOVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up – The Lancet
Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development?
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:01h | UTCChallenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development? – JAMA
Related: Opinion: Ethical Guidelines for Deliberately Infecting Volunteers with COVID-19 to Speed Vaccine Development (other commentaries on the subject)
Case Series: Preliminary Study Evaluates the use of Famotidine for COVID-19 in Non-hospitalized Patients
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:57h | UTC
Scientists’ Worlds Will Shrink in the Wake of the Pandemic
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:55h | UTCScientists’ worlds will shrink in the wake of the pandemic – Nature
Social Bubbles May be the Best Way for Societies to Emerge from Lockdown
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:53h | UTCSocial bubbles may be the best way for societies to emerge from lockdown – MIT Technology Review
Original Study: Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world – Nature Human Behaviour
See also: Expert reaction to evaluation of post-lockdown social distancing strategies – Science Media Centre
Accuracy of Emergency Department Clinical Findings for Diagnostic of Covid-19
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:48h | UTCCommentary: Clinical Predictors of COVID-19 in the ED – NEJM Journal Watch
The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Make It Quicker and Easier to Trial Drugs
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:54h | UTCThe coronavirus outbreak could make it quicker and easier to trial drugs – Nature
Early Detection of Acute Pulmonary Embolism Among Patients with COVID-19 in the Emergency Department
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:39h | UTCAcute Pulmonary Embolism and COVID-19 – Radiology
Commentary: Pulmonary embolism and COVID-19 – Henry Ford Health System
Meta-Analysis: Effect of Low‐dose Aspirin on Health Outcomes
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:35h | UTCCommentary: Healthy people shouldn’t take daily aspirin to prevent heart disease, review finds – CNN
Meta-Analysis: Noninvasive Oxygenation Strategies Reduces All-Cause Mortality in Adults with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:37h | UTCAssociation of Noninvasive Oxygenation Strategies with All-Cause Mortality in Adults With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Alternatives to Invasive Ventilation in the COVID-19 Pandemic (free for a limited period)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Noninvasive oxygenation strategies compared with standard oxygen therapy were significantly associated with lower risk of death in adults with acute hypoxemic #respiratoryfailure https://t.co/mvFIIAlm0J
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) June 4, 2020
Review: Medical Complications of Anorexia Nervosa
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:32h | UTCMedical complications of anorexia nervosa – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free registration may be required)
Review: Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: Recognition, Management, Prevention
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:31h | UTCRecurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: Recognition, management, prevention – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free registration may be required)
Systematic Review: Radical Prostatectomy vs. Deferred Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer
5 Jun, 2020 | 04:34h | UTCRadical prostatectomy versus deferred treatment for localised prostate cancer – Cochrane Library
Randomized Trial: Hydroxychloroquine Not Effective as Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19
4 Jun, 2020 | 05:12h | UTCEditorial: Hydroxychloroquine for the Prevention of Covid-19 — Searching for Evidence
Commentaries: Hydroxychloroquine does not prevent Covid-19 infection if exposed, study says – STAT AND The first high-quality study of malaria pill hydroxychloroquine just found it doesn’t help prevent coronavirus infections – Business Insider AND No Evidence Hydroxychloroquine Is Helpful In Preventing COVID-19, Study Finds – NPR
Fri June 05 – 10 Stories of The Day!
5 Jun, 2020 | 05:09h | UTC
1 – Lancet, New England Journal Retract Covid-19 Studies, Including one That Raised Safety Concerns About Malaria Drugs
Science: Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions
Editorial: Renin–angiotensin system inhibitors in the COVID-19 pandemic: consequences of antihypertensive drugs
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at link between high blood pressure and risk of dying from COVID-19 – Science Media Centre AND Blood pressure drugs linked to lower COVID-19 mortality: study – Reuters
3 – COVID-19: 10 things I wished I’d known some months ago – Intensive Care Medicine
Related (just published): Serology assays to manage COVID-19 – Science
5 – Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development? – JAMA
Related: Opinion: Ethical Guidelines for Deliberately Infecting Volunteers with COVID-19 to Speed Vaccine Development (other commentaries on the subject)
6 – Thinking of Risk in the Era of COVID-19 – JAMA
Related Article: Making Decisions in a COVID-19 World – JAMA
7 – COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up – The Lancet
9 – COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months – The Atlantic
10 –COVID-19 Updates / 05 June 2020 Edition
05 June 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)
Convalescent Plasma Therapy Shows Promise for Severe COVID-19 in Small Randomized Trial
4 Jun, 2020 | 05:08h | UTCEditorial: A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19—Potentially Hopeful Signals – JAMA
Podcast: Diagnosis and Early Treatment of Covid-19
4 Jun, 2020 | 05:11h | UTCAudio Interview: Diagnosis and Early Treatment of Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine