An investigational treatment for acute coronary syndrome that reduces major cardiovascular events more effectively and quickly than available drugs without increasing overall bleeding was announced at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. Its antiplatelet effects are readily reversible.
Someone found news reports about it by searching on the drug name.
Search term: Brilinta
RESULT: ESC: Reversible Antiplatelet Promising for ACS
MedPage Today
News reports mentioned the name of the first author, which provided an easy way to find the study report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Search term: Wallentin
RESULT: Ticagrelor versus Clopidogrel in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
New England Journal of Medicine
These results came from the randomized PLATO trial that compared the investigational drug with clopidogrel.
You can find the description of that study in the Clinical Trials article category.
Search term: PLATO
RESULT: A Comparison of AZD6140 and Clopidogrel in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome (PLATO)
ClinicalTrials.gov
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OTHER RECENT SEARCHES
Search term: deficiency “vitamin C”
RESULT: Vitamin C Deficiency in a Population of Young Canadian Adults
American Journal of Epidemiology
Many young Canadians have vitamin C deficiency due to their diet. Those who have vitamin C deficiency are also more likely to have health risks such as obesity and high blood pressure.
(Full text of this article is available online.)
Search term: confidentiality law
RESULT: A Physician’s Duty to Warn Third Parties of Hereditary Risk
AMA Virtual Mentor
When is it your responsibility to notify blood relatives of results from your patient’s genetic testing that might have implications for their own health?
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NOTEWORTHY SEARCH OF THE WEEK
Search term: immune reconstitution inflammatory syndromes what’s new
RESULT: New guidelines for treatment of HIV-associated opportunistic infections in children published
Pediatrics Supersite
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SEARCH TIP: Finding the latest information
The words “what’s new” in this search term will not have the desired effect, unless they happen to appear in the article title or high in the text.
The result shown here actually is among the latest information on this topic, but the words “what’s new” in the search term aren’t responsible for that. The word “what’s” appears somewhere in the article text, as we can see from the blurb beneath the results link, showing that it figured in the rank of this result. But its context has nothing to do with the news.
This article appears high on the results list because is publication date is recent. Default results on SearchMedica are prioritized by publication date, with the most recent (and most relevant) at the top of the list.
The best way to learn what’s new is simply to type a topic into the search box and look at the first few results.
If an old article has “what’s new” in its headline, putting those words in the query will have the ironic effect of delivering an old article when you requested the latest one.
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