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Interim Estimates of 2019–20 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — United States, February 2020

Author/s: Dawood, FS, Chung, JR, Kim, SS, Zimmerman, RK, Nowalk, MP, Jackson, ML, Jackson, LA, Monto, AS, Martin, ET, Belongia, EA, McLean, HQ, Gaglani, M, Dunnigan, K, Foust, A, Sessions, W, DaSilva, J, Le, S, Stark, T, Kondor, RJ, Barnes, JR, Wentworth, DE, Brammer, L, Fry, AM, Patel, MM, Flannery, B

What is already known about this topic?

Annual vaccination against seasonal influenza is recommended for all U.S. persons aged ≥6 months. Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine varies by season.

What is added by this report?

According...

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influenza Flu vaccines effectiveness

Twenty-Four-Hour Movement Guidelines and Body Weight in Youth

Author/s: Zhu, X, Healy, S, Haegele, JA, Patterson, F

Objective

To examine the prevalence of youth meeting the 24-hour healthy movement guidelines (ie, ≥60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, ≤2 hours of screen time, age-appropriate sleep duration), and which combination of meeting these guidelines was most associated with...

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24-hour healthy movement screen time sleep physical activity children adolescent

Practice: Five things to know about edible cannabis

Author/s: Zipursky, J.S., Bogler, O.D., Stall, N.M.

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edible cannabis

Association of use of cleaning products with respiratory health in a Canadian birth cohort

Author/s: McCandless, L., Parks, J., Dharma, C., Brook, J., Turvey, S.E., Mandhane, P., Becker, A.B., Kozyrskyj, A.L., Azad, M.B., Moraes, T.J., Lefebvre, D.L., Sears, M.R., Subbarao, P., Scott, J., Takaro, T.K.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Comprehensive longitudinal studies are important for understanding the complex risk factors, pathways, exposures and interactions that lead to the development and persistence of asthma. We aimed to examine associations between use of household...

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Respiratory medicine family medicine

COVID-19 Update From China

By mid-February 2020 there were 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the vast majority diagnosed in Hubei Province (including Wuhan city) in mainland China. China CDC Chief Epidemiologist Zunyou Wu, MD, PhD discusses the latest COVID-19 developments in the country with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard...

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2019 novel coronavirus coronavirus 2019-nCOV COVID-19

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

Author/s: Chen, N, Zhou, M, Dong, X, Qu, J, Gong, F, Han, Y, Qiu, Y, Wang, J, Liu, Y, Wei, Y, Xia, J, Yu, T, Zhang, X, Zhang, L

BACKGROUND:

In December, 2019, a pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan, China. We aimed to further clarify the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 2019-nCoV pneumonia.

METHODS:

In this retrospective, single-centre study...

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coronavirus 2019-nCOV 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia China

Zinc lozenges and the common cold: a meta-analysis comparing zinc acetate and zinc gluconate, and the role of zinc dosage

Author/s: Hemilia, H.

OBJECTIVE:

To compare the efficacy of zinc acetate lozenges with zinc gluconate lozenges in common cold treatment and to examine the dose-dependency of the effect.

DESIGN:

Meta-analysis.

SETTING:

Placebo-controlled zinc lozenge trials, in which the zinc dose...

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common cold randomised controlled trials respiratory tract infections therapeutic equivalency

Association of Subclinical Hypothyroidism and Cardiovascular Disease With Mortality

Author/s: Inoue, K., Ritz, B., Brent, G.A.

Importance  Subclinical hypothyroidism is a common clinical entity among US adults associated in some studies with an increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality. However, the extent to which CVD mediates the association between elevated serum thyrotropin...

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subclinical hypothyroidism

Comparative Effectiveness of Different Treatment Pathways for Opioid Use Disorder

Author/s: Wakeman, SE, Larochelle, MR, Ameli, O, Chaisson, CE, McPheeters, JT, Crown, WH, Azocar, F, Sanghavi, DM

IMPORTANCE:

Although clinical trials demonstrate the superior effectiveness of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) compared with nonpharmacologic treatment, national data on the comparative effectiveness of real-world treatment pathways are lacking.

OBJECTIVE:

To...

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opioid-use disorder treatment OUD overdose Buprenorphine methadone

Will Discontinuing the Use of Gabapentin Cause Withdrawal Symptoms?

Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant drug prescribed for seizures and nerve pain. People who develop physical dependence to gabapentin may experience withdrawal symptoms when they try to come off it. These symptoms can begin within 12 hours to 7 days after quitting the medication and last up to 10...

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gabapentin withdrawal

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