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28th April 2025

The BMJ: 28th April 2025

Adrenal insufficiency: identification and management—summary of new NICE guidance

Core GRADE 2: choosing the target of certainty rating and assessing imprecision

Could alcohol warning labels work in Canada?

Differential attainment: struggling to move the dial

Encourage me to take the rest I need

Harnessing predictive prevention to shift elderly care from hospital to community in England

How to combat misinformation in healthcare

No-touch versus conventional vein in coronary artery bypass grafting: three year follow-up of multicentre randomised PATENCY trial

SPIRIT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials

SPIRIT 2025 statement: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials

Stop smoking intervention in emergency departments helps people quit

Use of gabapentinoid treatment and the risk of self-harm: population based self-controlled case series study

We must resist as Trump takes aim at science

JAMA

No new issue this week

The Lancet: 3rd May 2025

CONSORT 2025 statement: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials

Durability and efficacy of solbinsiran, a GalNAc-conjugated siRNA targeting ANGPTL3, in adults with mixed dyslipidaemia (PROLONG-ANG3)

Oral gepotidacin for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea (EAGLE-1)

Prolonged grief disorder (review)

Semaglutide and walking capacity in people with symptomatic peripheral artery disease and type 2 diabetes (STRIDE)

New England Journal of Medicine: 1st May 2025

Addressing alcohol use

Anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy for device-detected atrial fibrillation

The IARC perspective on the effects of policies on reducing alcohol consumption

Identification of hepatic-like EPO as a cause of polycythemia

Lentiviral gene therapy for severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 1

Lepodisiran — a long-duration small interfering RNA targeting lipoprotein(a)

Mepolizumab to prevent exacerbations of COPD with an eosinophilic phenotype

21st April 2025

The BMJ: 21st April 2025

Core GRADE 1: overview of the Core GRADE approach

Ilona Kickbusch: navigating the future of the World Health Organization

Investigating the impact of trial retractions on the healthcare evidence ecosystem (VITALITY Study I)

Wash-in and washout effects: mitigating bias in short term dietary and other trials

Where are we in terms of curing - and treating - cystic fibrosis?

JAMA: 22nd/29th April 2025

Effects of combining coronary calcium score with treatment on plaque progression in familial coronary artery disease

High-dose vitamin D in clinically isolated syndrome typical of multiple sclerosis (D-Lay MS RCT)

Population-scale studies of protein S abnormalities and thrombosis

Prostate cancer: a review

The Lancet: 19th/26th April 2025

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition

Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health

Angiography-derived fractional flow reserve versus intravascular ultrasound to guide percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with coronary artery disease (FLAVOUR II)

Causes of and risk factors for postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Chikungunya virus virus-like particle vaccine safety and immunogenicity in adolescents and adults in the USA

Chikungunya virus virus-like particle vaccine safety and immunogenicity in adults older than 65 years

Outcomes after fractional flow reserve-guided percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting (FAME 3)

SAPIEN 3 versus Myval transcatheter heart valves for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (COMPARE-TAVI 1)

New England Journal of Medicine: 24th April 2025

Efficacy of baloxavir treatment in preventing transmission of influenza

Long-term effects of atidarsagene autotemcel for metachromatic leukodystrophy

Neonatal Fc receptor — biology and therapeutics

Phase 3 trial of the DPP-1 inhibitor brensocatib in bronchiectasis

Tumor-infiltrating clonal hematopoiesis

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