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Mon, November 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!

6 Nov, 2017 | 00:03h | UTC

 

1 – European Guidelines for treatment of HIV-positive adults – European AIDS Clinical Society (free)

Commentary: New EACS treatment guidelines – Aidsmap (free) AND EACS updates HIV guidelines for adults – Healio (free registration required)

 

2 – Effect of Sertraline on Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Without Dialysis Dependence: The CAST Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free)

Editorial: Treating Depression in Patients With Advanced CKD: Beyond the Generalizability Frontier (free)

Commentary: Standard Antidepressant May Not Help Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease – UT Southwestern Medical Center, via NewsWise (free)

“Not only doesn’t help treat moderate depression, sertraline causes worse nausea (NNH=8) & diarrhea (NNH=10)” (RT @AnilMakam see Tweet 1 and Tweet 2)

 

3 – Working with influenza-like illness: Presenteeism among US health care personnel during the 2014-2015 influenza season – American Journal of Infection Control (free)

Commentaries: 4 in 10 healthcare professionals work when they’re sick, risking patients – HealthCare Finance (free) AND Four in 10 Healthcare Personnel Work While Sick – Medscape (free registration required) AND Four in 10 HCPs Work While Experiencing Flu-Like Illness, Says Survey – MPR (free)

 

4 – Cardiovascular, respiratory, and related disorders: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition – The Lancet (free registration required)

 

5 – Testing for chronic hepatitis B and C: a global perspective – BMC Infectious Diseases (free)

 

6 – Frequent sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and the onset of cardiometabolic diseases: cause for concern? – Journal of the Endocrine Society (free)

Commentaries: Just two sugary drinks per week may raise type 2 diabetes risk – Medical News Today (free) AND Sugar-sweetened drinks raise risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome – The Endocrine Society, via EurekAlert (free)

 

7 – Choosing Wisely: Twenty Things Physicians and Patients Should Question – American Society for Clinical Pathology (free)

Commentary: More Lab Tests Deemed Inappropriate – Medscape (free registration required)

See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)

 

8 – What We Know About Tuberculosis Transmission: An Overview – The Journal of Infectious Diseases (free) (RT @greg_folkers see Tweet)

 

9 – Fiber Intake and Survival After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis – JAMA Oncology (free)

Commentaries: Is Eating Fiber After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Associated with Lower Death Risk? – The JAMA Network (free) AND Higher Fiber Intake After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Tied to Improved Survival – Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

10 – Glucocorticosteroids for people with alcoholic hepatitis – Cochrane Library (free)

Original article: Glucocorticosteroids for people with alcoholic hepatitis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“We found no evidence of a difference between glucocorticosteroids and placebo or no intervention on all-cause mortality, health-related quality of life, and serious adverse events during treatment”.

 


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