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Picks of the Week: New guidelines and safety warnings on opioids

Posted on March 24, 2016 by

Sharing news within a peer community, such as the Among Doctors network, is a way of socially curating knowledge. Whether you wish to post your own piece of news, a guideline or a recently published article, or just start a new discussion within your own private group, Among Doctors is the right place to do all of that. So let’s have a look at what news have been shared lately on our network by fellow colleagues:

  • CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
    This guideline provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care.
  • Opioid Pain Medicines: New Safety Warnings Added to Prescription Opioid Medications
    FDA is warning about several safety issues with the entire class of opioid pain medicines. These safety risks are potentially harmful interactions with numerous other medications, problems with the adrenal glands, and decreased sex hormone levels. We are requiring changes to the labels of all opioid drugs to warn about these risks.
  • Long-Term Results of Stenting versus Endarterectomy for Carotid-Artery Stenosis
    Over 10 years of follow-up, no significant differences were found between patients who underwent stenting and those who underwent endarterectomy with respect to the risk of periprocedural stroke, myocardial infarction, or death and subsequent ipsilateral stroke.
  • The ABC (age, biomarkers, clinical history) stroke risk score: a biomarker-based risk score for predicting stroke in atrial fibrillation
    A novel biomarker-based risk score for predicting stroke in AF was successfully developed and internally validated in a large cohort of patients with AF and further externally validated in an independent AF cohort. The ABC-stroke score performed better than the presently used clinically based risk score and may provide improved decision support in AF.
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Posted in Picks of the week atrial fibrillation, cancer, corticosteroids, end-of-life care, FDA, neck pain, opioid, pain, pneumonia, stroke

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

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