Thu, March 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – One Month of Rifapentine plus Isoniazid to Prevent HIV-Related Tuberculosis – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Ending Tuberculosis through Prevention (free)

Commentary: Ultrashort TB Therapy Found Just As Effective as 6 Month Course – MedicalResearch.com (free)

2 – A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Video Summary: Prophylactic Antibiotics before Miscarriage Surgery (free)

Commentaries: Research shines light on preventing infection after miscarriage – University of Birmingham (free) AND Antibiotics before miscarriage surgery not tied to fewer infections – CIDRAP (free)

3 – Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016 – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Improving adolescent health: an evidence-based call to action – The Lancet (free) AND The Lancet: Disease, violence and inequality threaten more adolescents worldwide than ever before – The Lancet (free) AND The world’s adolescents: large unmet needs and growing inequalities – University of Melbourne (free) AND Adolescent health, education needs unmet in many countries, study says – UPI (free)

4 – Trends in cause-specific mortality among children aged 5–14 years from 2005 to 2016 in India, China, Brazil, and Mexico: an analysis of nationally representative mortality studies – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Shedding light on a million annual deaths in mid-childhood – The Lancet (free) AND Most deaths in children aged 5 to 14 in India, China, Brazil, Mexico are preventable – St. Michael’s Hospital (free)

5 – Risk reduction and management of delirium – Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) (free guideline and summary)

News Release: First delirium clinical guidelines for Scotland published on World Delirium Awareness Day (free)

6 – EAN guideline on trigeminal neuralgia – European Journal of Neurology (free PDF)

7 – Narrative review: clinical assessment of peripheral tissue perfusion in septic shock – Annals of Intensive Care (free)

Related Research: Randomized Trial: Resuscitation Strategy Targeting Peripheral Perfusion Status vs Serum Lactate Levels in Patients with Septic Shock (link to abstract $ for full-text)

8 – Pro/Con Debate: Should Asymptomatic Patients with Moderate-to-severe OSA be Treated?

Pro: should asymptomatic patients with moderate-to-severe OSA be treated? – Breathe (free)

Con: should asymptomatic patients with moderate-to-severe OSA be treated? – Breathe (free)

Related: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of the Literature and Proposed Multidisciplinary Clinical Management Strategy (free reviews) AND Positive airway pressure doesn’t reduce cardiovascular events and death in adults with sleep apnea (link to abstract and commentaries)

9 – Ten myths around open scholarly publishing – PeerJ Preprints (free)

Related: UC Terminates Subscriptions with World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access (several commentaries on the subject)

10 – Infectious Diseases in Transplantation Guidelines

– BK Polyomavirus in Solid Organ Transplantation

– Adenovirus in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

– Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections in Solid Organ Transplantation

– Nocardia Infections in Solid Organ Transplantation

– Urinary Tract Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

– Viral Hepatitis

– Herpes Simplex Virus Infections in Solid Organ Transplantation

– RNA Respiratory Viral Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

– Interactions between Anti‐infective Agents and Immunosuppressants

– Travel Medicine, Transplant Tourism, and the Solid Organ Transplant Recipient

– Solid Organ Transplantation in the HIV‐Infected Patient

– Cytomegalovirus in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

– Human Herpesvirus 6, 7 and 8 in Solid Organ Transplantation

– Strategies for Safe Living Following Solid Organ Transplantation

– Emerging Fungal Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients