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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Big 4 Journals

Big 4 Journals current awareness bulletin

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7th April 2025

The BMJ: 31st March/7th April 2025

The assault on US science: a deep dive with Ashish Jha

Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying

Caring for patients experiencing homelessness

Dengue poses an increasingly severe threat to Bangladesh—and the world’s largest refugee camp

Evolution of reported patient and public involvement over time in randomised controlled trials in major medical journals and in their protocols

Finding the right treatment for severe depression

How Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains

Migrants in limbo and the doctors struggling to provide care

Northern Ireland needs a practitioner health service

Schoolchildren with asthma face different risks at different ages

Stepwise dual antiplatelet therapy de-escalation in patients after drug coated balloon angioplasty (REC-CAGEFREE II)

Vision 2050: a revolution in academic medicine for better health for all

Women are woefully under-researched—the Message project aims to redress the balance

JAMA: 1st/8th April 2025

Adjuvant atezolizumab for early triple-negative breast cancer (ALEXANDRA/IMpassion030)

CNM-Au8 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (HEALEY ALS)

Eating disorders: a review

Emergency clinician buprenorphine initiation, subsequent prescriptions, and continuous prescriptions

Evaluation of a clinical decision support system for imaging requests

Illicit substance use and treatment access among adults experiencing homelessness

A new legal standard for medical malpractice

Pridopidine in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (HEALEY ALS)

The Lancet: 5th/12th April 2025

Effect of digital adherence technologies on treatment outcomes in people with drug-susceptible tuberculosis

Effect of invitation to colonoscopy versus faecal immunochemical test screening on colorectal cancer mortality (COLONPREV)

Efficacy and safety of clopidogrel versus aspirin monotherapy in patients at high risk of subsequent cardiovascular event after percutaneous coronary intervention (SMART-CHOICE 3)

Global, regional, and national burden of household air pollution, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

The Lancet Commission on rethinking coronary artery disease: moving from ischaemia to atheroma

Orbital atherectomy versus balloon angioplasty before drug-eluting stent implantation in severely calcified lesions eligible for both treatment strategies (ECLIPSE)

Pancreatic cancer

Pharmacokinetics and safety of once-yearly lenacapavir

New England Journal of Medicine: 3rd/10th April 2025

Assessment of a polygenic risk score in screening for prostate cancer

Alteplase for posterior circulation ischemic stroke at 4.5 to 24 hours

Association between wealth and mortality in the United States and Europe

Dapagliflozin in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic-valve implantation

Endovascular treatment for stroke due to occlusion of medium or distal vessels

Endovascular treatment of stroke due to medium-vessel occlusion

Extended reduced-dose apixaban for cancer-associated venous thromboembolism

The genetic architecture of congenital diarrhea and enteropathy

Left atrial appendage closure after ablation for atrial fibrillation

Malaria

Otitis media in young children

Twice-yearly lenacapavir for HIV prevention in men and gender-diverse persons

24th March 2025

The BMJ: 24th March 2025

Approaches to children’s smartphone and social media use must go beyond bans

Computer aided detection and diagnosis of polyps in adult patients undergoing colonoscopy: a living clinical practice guideline

Are “copycat” compounded weight loss drugs safe?

Care guided by tissue oxygenation and haemodynamic monitoring in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (Bottomline-CS)

Development of ROBUST-RCT: Risk Of Bias instrument for Use in SysTematic reviews-for Randomised Controlled Trials

Effects of intensive blood pressure treatment on orthostatic hypertension

Equitable energy transitions for a healthy future: combating air pollution and climate change

PROBAST+AI: an updated quality, risk of bias, and applicability assessment tool for prediction models using regression or artificial intelligence methods

JAMA: 25th March 2025

Age and sex differences in efficacy of treatments for type 2 diabetes: a network meta-analysis

Medicaid spending and health-related social needs in the North Carolina Healthy Opportunities Pilots program

Tracking US health care spending by health condition and county

The Lancet: 29th March 2025

Behavioural interventions to increase uptake of FIT colorectal screening in Scotland (TEMPO)

Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms (FUTURE) in the UK

Neuroprotective mechanisms of exercise and the importance of fitness for healthy brain ageing

Safety and immunogenicity of a pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine targeting serogroups A, C, W, Y, and X when co-administered with routine childhood vaccines at ages 9 months and 15 months in Mali

New England Journal of Medicine: 27th March 2025

Imlunestrant with or without Abemaciclib in advanced breast cancer

Inebilizumab for treatment of IgG4-related disease

Intensive blood-pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes

Tezepelumab in adults with severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps

Unexplained or refractory chronic cough in adults

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