Daily Archives: October 27, 2016

Thu, Oct 27 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

27 Oct, 2016 | 00:41h | UTC

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1 – A Randomized Trial of Long-Term Oxygen for COPD with Moderate Desaturation – New England Journal of Medicine

In patients with stable COPD and moderate desaturation, long-term supplemental oxygen did not improve outcomes

 

2 – New estimate suggests a quarter of the world’s population has latent tuberculosis – The Conversation

 

3 – Parent-mediated social communication therapy for young children with autism (PACT): long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial – The Lancet

 

4 – Super-parenting’ improves children’s autism – BBC News

 

5 – Evaluation of computed tomography in patients with atypical angina or chest pain clinically referred for invasive coronary angiography: randomised controlled trial – The British Medical Journal

CT increased diagnostic yield of coronary angiography (75% v 15%) with no increase in long term events

 

6 – #OAweek2016 – Between Science’s Secretive, Elitist Past and Open, Accessible Future – Absolutely Maybe (by Hilda Bastian)

 

7 – #OAweek2016 – Open Access Week 2016: A Drumbeat for ‘Open In Action’ – Creative Commons

 

8 – #OAweek2016 – The State of Open Data: Report Provides New Insights into the Global State of Open Data – BioMed Central blog

 

9 – #OAweek2016 – Best practices in licensing and attribution: What you need to know – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

 

10 – #OAweek2016 – Open Access Explained! (YouTube video) – Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics)

 

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