Daily Archives: October 27, 2017
Fri, October 27 – 10 Stories of The Day!
27 Oct, 2017 | 00:22h | UTC
News release: American College of Chest Physicians unveils new lung cancer screening guidelines at CHEST 2017 (free)
2 – Guideline: Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused – World Health Organization (free)
News release: Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused (free)
“Industry payments to journal editors are common and often large, particularly for certain subspecialties. Journals should consider the potential impact of such payments on public trust in published research”.
“Women with antithrombin, protein C, or protein S deficiency or with homozygous factor V Leiden should be considered for antepartum or postpartum thrombosis prophylaxis, or both”.
Original article: Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: EvidenceAlerts
7 – Perspective: HIV Drug Resistance: An Emerging Threat to Epidemic Control – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
8 – Terbinafine is probably first choice oral drug for fungal toenail infection – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Oral antifungal medication for toenail onychomycosis – Cochrane Library (free)