Daily Archives: July 26, 2017

Wed, July 26 – 10 Stories of The Day!

26 Jul, 2017 | 01:33h | UTC

 

1 – Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV – World Health Organization (free)

See also: Executive Summary (free)

 

2 – Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure – MMWR / CDC (free)

Commentaries: CDC Updates Guidelines on Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Exposure – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Updated CDC Guidance on Zika in Pregnancy – Medscape (free registration required)

 

3 – Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football – JAMA (free)

Author interview: Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players (free video)

Commentaries: High Prevalence of Evidence of CTE in Brains of Deceased Football Players – JAMA Network (free) AND Brain disease CTE seen in most football players in large report – STAT News (free) AND 110 N.F.L. Brains – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Signs of brain disease in 99 percent of ex-NFL players studied: paper – Reuters (free) AND Study: CTE Found In Nearly All Donated NFL Player Brains – NPR (free)

“A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head” (from NYT).

 

4 – Long-acting intramuscular cabotegravir and rilpivirine in adults with HIV-1 infection (LATTE-2): 96-week results of a randomised, open-label, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentary: Long-Acting Injectable HIV Regimens Show Promise – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Injections ‘next revolution’ in HIV: study – BBC (free)

 

5 – Brazilian guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes: a position statement from the Brazilian Diabetes Society (SBD), the Brazilian Cardiology Society (SBC) and the Brazilian Endocrinology and Metabolism Society (SBEM) – Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome (free)

 

6 – Guidelines for the understanding and management of pain in chronic pancreatitis – Pancreatology (free)

 

7 – Cardiocerebral and cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 2017 update – Acute Medicine & Surgery (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

 

8 – 2017 ISHNE-HRS expert consensus statement on ambulatory ECG and external cardiac monitoring/telemetry (free)

 

9 – Report: WHO MERS-CoV Global Summary and Assessment of Risk – World Health Organization (free PDF)

Commentary: WHO: Hospital outbreaks underscore MERS challenges – CIDRAP (free)

See also: WHO’s Work on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

 

10 – Comparative effectiveness of high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccination on numbers of US nursing home residents admitted to hospital: a cluster-randomised trial – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Study: High-dose flu vaccine cuts hospitalizations in nursing home residents – CIDRAP (free) AND High-dose influenza vaccine for nursing home residents reduces hospitalisations – OnMedica (free) AND High Dose Influenza Vaccine Leads to Lower Rate of Hospitalization From Respiratory Illnesses in Nursing Home Residents – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, via NewsWise (free)

 

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