Tue, Nov 22 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

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1 – Hip and Pelvic Fracture Risk Associated With Antihypertensive Medications – JAMA Internal Medicine

Thiazides reduced fracture risk compared with other antihypertensives

2 – Cancer clinical trials often exaggerate real-world benefits of drugs – STAT News

3 – A Strep in the right direction… – Evidently Cochrane

4 – The Microbes Have Won Again: Zika has been downgraded from emergency status by WHO—and despite how it might sound, that’s not good news – Scientific American

5 – Zika virus ‘no longer an emergency’ – WHO – BBC News

6 – Richard Lehman’s journal review-21 November 2016 – The BMJ Blog Archive

7 – CDC exhibit displays the stuff of nightmares – made beautiful – STAT News

8 – Scientific language is becoming more informal – Nature Editorial

9 – PPIs Not Linked to Risk for Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Physician’s First Watch

10 – Community acquired pneumonia incidence before and after proton pump inhibitor prescription: population based study – The BMJ