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Venezuelan Hospital Encourages 'Kangaroo' Baby Care to Spare Incubators Venezuela's largest maternity hospital is asking mothers to care for non-critical premature babies with skin-to-skin contact known as "kangaroo care" rather than in incubators, as wards struggle with a lack of equipment.
Reuters Health Information, October 5, 2018
Guideline-Recommended Antibiotics Suffice to Treat CAP in Children Under Five Young children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can be managed with guideline-recommended antibiotics, without additional diagnostics such as chest X-rays (CXRs) or complete blood counts (CBCs), researchers say.
Reuters Health Information, September 27, 2018

Asthma-COPD Overlap: Managing This Critical Disease Dr Navitha Ramesh provides her perspective on how best to treat patients with these dual airway diseases.
CHEST and Medscape, October 8, 2018
De-escalating Antibiotics: A Nudge in the Right Direction To encourage de-escalation of vancomycin, a unique behavioral "nudge" aims to change provider prescribing behavior.
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), October 2, 2018

Time Out! A Close Look at Antibiotic Use in LTC
Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 2, 2018
Vaccine Science Taken Hostage? Paul Offit Responds
Medscape Infectious Diseases, August 14, 2018
Multidrug-Resistant Infections: What's on the Horizon?
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), July 18, 2018
Should You Consider Prone Positioning Before ECMO?
Medscape Critical Care, June 13, 2018

Updated GADOLIN Study Shows Survival Benefit in Indolent NHL
Journal of Clinical Oncology, October 12, 2018
Lack of Communication About Medical Marijuana With Patients
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, October 11, 2018
Death From Transfusion-Transmitted Anaplasmosis
Emerging Infectious Diseases, October 10, 2018
Unilateral Pulmonary Edema: A Case Report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, October 10, 2018
The All Age Asthma Cohort (ALLIANCE)
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, October 9, 2018