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Public Health, Vaccinations 

14  April 2024

Nigeria leads a global effort to combat meningitis with the introduction of a revolutionary 5-in-1 Meningitis vaccine

Time to read: 1:17

Public Health, Infectious Diseases

9 April 2024

Africa bears the heaviest toll of escalating viral Hepatitis crisis, warns WHO Global Report


Time to read: 1:44

Public Health, Infectious Disease

5 April 2024

WHO announces global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera


Time to read: 1:17

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Clinical Trial WATCH

Keep up-to-date with snapshot overviews of newly released clinical trials

Anaesthetics, Critical Care

Video Laryngoscopy vs Direct Laryngoscopy for Endotracheal Intubation in the Operating Room: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

Time to read:00:40


Source: JAMA

Critical Care

Association between admission haemoglobin level and prognosis in sepsis patients based on a critical care database

Time to read: 00:48


Source: Nature Scientific Reports

Critical Care, Paediatrics & Neonatology

Diagnostic test accuracy of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein for predicting invasive and serious bacterial infections in young febrile infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Time to read: 00:35

Source: Lancet Child and Adolescent Health

Novel Drugs & Emergent Therapeutics
 

Nephrology

Novartis presents the results of the pre-specified interim analysis of the Phase III APPLAUSE-IgAN study of Fabhalta® (iptacopan) for the treatment of patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN).

Antibiotics, Respiratory Tract Infections

FDA Approves New Antibiotic for Three Different Uses

 

Autoimmune, Rare Diseases

Amgen presents new data from Phase 2 Trial of Dazodalebep in Sjogren's Syndrome
 

In Brief
 



Neurology, Critical Care

Early Seizure Prophylaxis in Mild and Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Time to read: 1:00 min



Respiratory Physiology, Critical Care

Unlocking Precision Medicine in Oxygenation Targets for Critically Ill Adults


Time to read: 1:40 min



Respiratory Physiology, Thoracic Surgery

Early Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery or Intrapleural Enzyme Therapy in Pleural Infection: The Third Multicenter Intrapleural Sepsis Trial—MIST-3

Time to read: 1:40 min

Podcasts, Audio & Video
 



Palliative Care, End of life

Why Doctors need to talk about Death


Time to Listen: 23:23

Source: NEJM Intention To Treat



Neurology, Paediatrics & Neonatology

SCCM Pod-507 PCCM: Pediatric Neurologic Challenges Unveiled

Time to Listen: 34:35

Source: Society of Critical Care Medicine



Critical Care & Infection Control

Simulation: Working with the new ASPiH standards

Time to Listen: 34:35


Source: Anaesthesia on Air

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The Reading Room
 



History

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
 John M. Barry

"It’s one of several books that made it clear to me that the world needed to do a better job of preparing for novel pathogens.’" Bill Gates


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Literary Fiction, Drama

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

“Tremendous. . . . Vivid and thrilling. . . . I feel lucky to have gotten to read it.”—Atul Gawande



Read More



Autobiography,True Crime, Mémoire

All That Remains: A Life In Death
Professor Sue Black

"Black’s utterly gripping account of her life and career as a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology manages to be surprisingly life-affirming. As she herself says, it is ‘as much about life as about death.’"—Guardian 

Read More

 

Alerts

Start of RSV season 2024: NICD issues alert to Clinicians
Source, NICD, 8 March 2024

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Guidelines

National Guidelines for the Management of Viral Hepatitis
Source: NICD 2019
 

Reports & Analysis 

Global hepatitis report 2024: action for access in low- and middle-income countries
Source: WHO, 9 April 2024

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