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10 Jul 2020 - Conference Reports AIDS 2020 – UNAIDS: COVID-19 has significantly upended progress toward eliminating HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
>600K deaths expected if HIV medications and services are further derailed.
8 Jul 2020 - UK Medical News Infant sleep problems may signal mental disorders in adolescents
Association of parent-reported sleep problems in early childhood with psychotic and borderline personality disorder symptoms in adolescence.
8 Jul 2020 - UK Medical News Number of cases of breast implant-linked lymphoma in the UK
Official figures from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

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10 Jul 2020 - UK Clinical Digest from BMC Endocr Disord Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease risk higher in individuals with metabolically healthy obesity
Results from the UK population-based cohort study.
10 Jul 2020 - UK Medical News Temperature screening not a reliable way to detect COVID-19, warns MHRA
Manufacturers of such devices should refrain from making claims that directly relate to COVID-19 diagnosis.
10 Jul 2020 - UK Medical News UK COVID-19 Daily: steep fall in cancer referrals in England
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10 Jul 2020 - Univadis Clinical Summaries from CMAJ Chronic GERD: should you screen for upper GI disease?
The prevalence of GERD with weekly symptoms is 10%-20% in Europe and North America.
10 Jul 2020 - UK Medical News Can text message reminders lead to more women taking up cervical screening?
This is the first study assessing the effect of SMS on cervical screening rates.
10 Jul 2020 - Clinical Essentials from JAMA Hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin: no mortality benefit, cardiac arrest a concern in COVID-19
Increasing evidence against utility of these agents.
10 Jul 2020 - Clinical Essentials from Diabetes Care Severe hypoglycemia raises fall risk in older adults with T2D
Fall risk should be considered when individualizing glycemic treatment.
10 Jul 2020 - Univadis Clinical Summaries from J Vasc Surg Lung cancer is linked to increased abdominal aortic aneurysm risk
Extending lung cancer CT to include the abdomen could screen for both diseases at once.
10 Jul 2020 - Clinical Essentials from Mayo Clin Proc CAC score is worth a thousand words with borderline ASCVD risk
Perspective argues for CAC score to guide statin decisions with borderline risk.
10 Jul 2020 - Clinical Essentials from Br J Dermatol Psoriasis: risankizumab tops secukinumab in year-long, open-label trial
The availability of novel psoriasis treatments necessitates head-to-head trials.
10 Jul 2020 - Clinical Essentials from Alzheimers Dement Dual hearing, vision loss almost doubles dementia risk
Older adults with impairment of both more likely to develop dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease.
10 Jul 2020 - Clinical Essentials from JAMA Neurol Stroke is 4 to 7 times likelier with COVID-19 than with influenza
Mortality is doubled among patients with COVID-19 with vs without stroke.
9 Jul 2020 - UK Clinical Digest from Age Ageing Factors associated with non-prescription of OAC in dementia patients with AF
Results from a CPRD-HES study.
9 Jul 2020 - UK Medical News COVID-19: what are the neurological manifestations in children?
A key observation in this UK paediatric cohort was the acute splenial lesions seen on neuroimaging in all four patients.

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