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Updated guidelines welcome advances in evaluation and management.

HCV in CKD: KDIGO updates guideline after a decade

HCV news
21 September 2018

Updated guidelines welcome advances in evaluation and management.

The World Health Organization says urgent action is needed to ensure countries can end TB by 2030.

Disease burden from TB falling, but not fast enough, says WHO

Univadis Medical News
21 September 2018

The World Health Organization says urgent action is needed to ensure countries can end TB by 2030.

Study finds antibacterial cleaning products have the capacity to change the gut microbiome and alter risk for childhood obesity.

Household cleaning products may contribute to childhood obesity

Univadis Medical News
21 September 2018

Study finds antibacterial cleaning products have the capacity to change the gut microbiome and alter risk for childhood obesity.

More than half of countries are not on track to meet targets to reduce the rate of premature deaths from non-communicable disease by a third by 2030.

Report prompts call to action on non-communicable disease mortality

Univadis Medical News
21 September 2018

More than half of countries are not on track to meet targets to reduce the rate of premature deaths from non-communicable disease by a third by 2030.

The organisation says it needs US$14.1 billion or €12 billion investment to help deliver its targets over the next five years.

WHO publishes first investment case to save up to 30 million lives

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21 September 2018

The organisation says it needs US$14.1 billion or €12 billion investment to help deliver its targets over the next five years.

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Findings from data of two community-based cohort studies ROS and MAP of ageing and dementia

Is APOE ε4 a risk factor for TDP-43 pathology?

21 September 2018

Findings from data of two community-based cohort studies ROS and MAP of ageing and dementia

Results from secondary analysis of the HARP-2 trial of simvastatin for ARDS treatment

ARDS: potential heterogeneity in biology and treatment response among patients

20 September 2018

Results from secondary analysis of the HARP-2 trial of simvastatin for ARDS treatment

AMPLE-2: multicentre open label randomised trial involving 11 centres

Malignant pleural effusion: aggressive vs symptom-guided drainage via indwelling pleural catheter

19 September 2018

AMPLE-2: multicentre open label randomised trial involving 11 centres

The researchers evaluated 136 384 individuals (ages 35-70) across 21 countries

Higher dairy consumption linked to lower risk of death or cardiovascular disease

18 September 2018

The researchers evaluated 136 384 individuals (ages 35-70) across 21 countries

TARGET All Comers study enrolled 1653 patients from 21 clinical study sites

FIREHAWK stent non-inferior to XIENCE in terms of target lesion failure and in-stent late lumen loss endpoint

17 September 2018

TARGET All Comers study enrolled 1653 patients from 21 clinical study sites

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The JAMA Network

Global burden of firearm injury deaths

The study estimated firearm-related mortality from 1990-2016 for 195 countries and territories by age and by sex

Mild-to-moderate hypertension: does low-dose triple antihypertensive drug combination improve BP control vs usual care?

TRIUMPH: randomized open-label clinical trial among 700 hypertension patients enrolled from 11 urban hospital clinics in Sri Lanka

Screening of undiagnosed Afib through home-based wearable continuous ECG monitoring patch

mSToPS trial evaluated 2659 individuals at increased risk for Afib

Rhinoplasty: protection of augmented tip (PAT) flap technique to camouflage tip grafts

The PAT technique emphasizes to prevent tip irregularities and smooth infratip lobule transition in primary rhinoplasty

Prostate cancer screening: The 2018 USPSTF recommendation statement

The new recommendation emphasizes on decision-making of screening to be individualized for each man

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Conference Reports

INHSU 2018—How do we work together to achieve hepatitis C virus elimination among people who inject drugs?

HCV Conference Reports
21 September 2018

Decriminalization, harm reduction, accessible health services and eliminating stigma, discrimination, and violence against people who use drugs are some of the actions that can be taken to achieve HCV elimination