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Picks of the Week: Dementia risk, corticosteroids for CAP, and much more!

Posted on February 23, 2016 by

The last days were quite busy for our fellow colleagues of the Among Doctors network! Many shared selected opinion papers and blogs, systematic reviews, and new evidence regarding a wide range of conditions. Let’s have a look at the top picks of these news:

  • Association of Proton Pump Inhibitors With Risk of Dementia
    The avoidance of PPI medication may prevent the development of dementia. This finding is supported by recent pharmacoepidemiological analyses on primary data and is in line with mouse models in which the use of PPIs increased the levels of β-amyloid in the brains of mice.
  • Efficacy and Safety of Corticosteroids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
    Short-term treatment with corticosteroids is safe and may reduce the risk of ARDS, shortening the length of the disease in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
  • Zika Outbreak Signals the Urgent Need for Strong Primary Health Care Systems
    Despite the wide-ranging functions of primary health care -immunizations, family planning, diagnostics, antenatal care, maternity services, rehabilitation, counseling, and referrals- it is often underfunded and deprioritized, forcing people to use whatever cash they have for low-quality private services. The volatile Zika outbreak should remind health advocates and policymakers alike that investments in strong comprehensive primary health care systems is the very best precaution for such emergencies.
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Posted in Picks of the week antidepressants, chlamydia, community-acquired pneumonia, corticosteroids, diabetes mellitus, mediterranean diet, metformin, PPI, pregnancy, primary health care, type 2 diabetes, Zika virus

Picks of the Week: Cancer screening, white coats and more!

Posted on January 11, 2016 by

Dear colleagues, first of all we’d like to wish you all a very happy new year!

In this blog, we continue picking up the top news updates from those that fellow colleagues have shared on the Among Doctors network. As many of you have already experienced, with this feature we can all become editors by selecting and sharing interesting news with the rest of our network. If you haven’t used it yet, give it try and let us know your thoughts.

Now, back to the latest top news:

  • Effects of cancer screening on overall mortality overstated, says report
    There is insufficient evidence to claim cancer screening saves lives, argue experts in a report published in The BMJ, who call for future studies to assess the impact of cancer screening on overall mortality rather than disease-specific mortality alone.
  • Effect of body surface decolonisation on bacteriuria and candiduria in intensive care units
    Universal decolonisation of patients in the ICU with once a day chlorhexidine baths and short-course nasal mupirocin could be a potential preventive strategy in male patients because it significantly decreases candiduria and any bacteriuria, but not for women.
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Posted in Picks of the week allergy, cancer, community-acquired pneumonia, Picks of the week

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