March 2024

March 2024

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Focus on COPD Collection

In Brief Clinical news with comment from local experts

High burden of bronchiectasis in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory Top End

Self-assessed walking ability may help identify fracture risk in older adults

Benefits of using decision aids highlighted in updated Cochrane review

Sustained survival benefits seen with resynchronisation–defibrillation for heart failure

Perinatal depression linked to long-term suicidal behaviour

Early-life diet may affect subsequent inflammatory bowel disease risk

How does testosterone therapy affect fracture risk in hypogonadal men?

Corrections

Newsbites

Licit and illicit drug use in Australia

TGA safety advisory on Withania

Physician-authored summaries and commentary on the most important medical research, provided by the NEJM Group, a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Gabapentin and pregabalin are associated with severe COPD exacerbations

Ann Intern Med

Recombinant zoster vaccine works as advertised

Ann Intern Med

Adverse outcomes following curative treatment for prostate cancer

JAMA

Does testosterone therapy affect the prostate adversely?

JAMA Netw Open

For managing febrile urinary tract infections in young children, shorter duration may be better – or at least as good

Pediatrics

Dual therapy with lamotrigine and levetiracetam safer than valproate monotherapy in pregnant people with epilepsy

Neurology

Does treatment with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir raise risk for COVID-19 rebound?

Clin Infect Dis