Downstate Medical Research Library of Brooklyn

Please note that Library access to the New England Journal of Medicine has been restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please note that our access to the New England Journal of Medicine has been temporarily interrupted.

Request any articles you need from NEJM through our interlibrary loan service in the interim.
https://guides.downstate.edu/interlibraryloan

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please note that access to all of our OVID LWW databases will be temporarily interrupted beginning Sunday, Feb. 1.
We apologize for the inconvenience and encourage you to request any materials you are unable to access through our interlibrary loan service.

New Guidance on Responsible Use of AI This Viewpoint discusses new guidance on responsible use of artificial intelligence.

New #AI in Medicine Viewpoint in JAMA

"New Guidance on Responsible Use of AI"

WHO Guideline on GLP-1 Therapies for Obesity in Adults This Special Communication summarizes the WHO guideline on the management of obesity with GLP-1 therapies in adults and calls on nations to ensure equitable access to obesity prevention and management interventions.

New WHO guideline in JAMA for use and indications of GLP-1 for obesity

PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, interlibrary loan requests may be delayed or slowed. The software libraries use to request items from other libraries is managed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a federal agency.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

The library will be closing at 5pm on Sunday, August 31st and will be closed on Monday, September 1st in observance of the Labor Day holiday. We will resume regular desk hours on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

SPIRIT 2025 Statement This Special Communication introduces the updated Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2025 statement, which includes substantive and structural changes to incorporate new evidence and emerging perspectives.

SPIRIT 2025 Statement
Updated Guideline for Protocols of Randomized Trials

No link found between aluminum in vaccines and autism: Study The study analyzed vaccine data from 1.2 million children who received childhood vaccines.

Once again for those in the back
#Autism #Vaccines

Ask The Chefs - The NIH Steps on the Open Access Accelerator - The Scholarly Kitchen The NIH has answered the lingering questions about the future of the Nelson Memo. Not only is it still in effect, it's being accelerated by six months. We asked the Chefs for their thoughts.

The timeline for enforcing the Nelson memo has been shortened to now take effect on July 1, 2025
(i.e. open access for all fed funded research pubs)

Key FDA drug data goes missing amid DOGE cuts Health professionals have been left flying blind on basic questions like where a drug was made.

Drug data disappearing after DOGE cuts
FDA's drug labeling database cuts stops new info from being entered.

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

"Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever"

Want to learn more about data repositories? Check out our new libguide to find the right place for your data, best practices or where you can find data for analysis.

https://guides.downstate.edu/datarepositories

Interested in what areas Downstate is publishing research? Check out our new publications pages! You can see the most recent articles listed, search for specific topics or authors, and click on Downstate author names to discover their publication history. 

https://guides.downstate.edu/publications

Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them Attacks on vaccines and the cancellation of research into what causes vaccine hesitancy puts people in harm’s way.

New editorial in Nature:

"Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them"

AI Search Has A Citation Problem We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

Something I think we can all agree with:

"AI Search Has A Citation Problem"

An investigation by Columbia Journalism Review

ACG Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Gastric ... : Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG cancer disparity because incidence rates are 2- to 13-fold greater in non-White individuals, particularly early-generation immigrants from regions of high GC incidence. The US 5-year survival rate for GC is 36%, which falls short of global standards and is driven by the fact that only a small percentage of GC in the US is diagnosed in the early, curable stage. This document represents the first iteration of American College of Gastroenterology guidelines on this topic and encompasses endoscopic surveillance for high-risk patients with GPMC, the performance of high-quality endoscopy and image-enhanced endoscopy for diagnosis and surveillance, GPMC histology criteria and reporting, endoscopic treatment of dysplasia, the role of Helicobacter pylori eradication, general risk reduction measures, and the management of autoimmune gastritis and gastric epithelial polyps. There is insufficient evidence to make a recommendation on upper endoscopic screening for GC/GPMC detection in US populations deemed high-risk for GC. Surveillance endoscopy is recommended for individuals at high risk for GPMC progression, as defined by endoscopic, histologic, and demographic factors, typically every 3 years, but an individualized interval may be warranted. H. pylori testing, treatment, and eradication confirmation are recommended in all individuals with GPMC. Extensive high-quality data from US populations regarding GPMC management are lacking, but continue to accrue, and the quality of evidence for the recommendations presented herein should be interpreted with this dynamic context in mind. The GPMC research and education agendas are broad and include high-quality prospective studies evaluating opportunistic endoscopic screening for GC/GPMC, refined delineation of what constitutes “high-risk” populations, development of novel biomarkers, alignment of best practices, implementation of training programs for improved GPMC/GC detection, and evaluation of the impact of these interventions on GC incidence and mortality in the US....

New clinical guideline from AJG journal:

"Diagnosis and Management of Gastric Premalignant Conditions"

Guest Post:  Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance - The Scholarly Kitchen I tired three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.

New in Scholarly Kitchen: "Trying to write a paper with LLM Assistance"
The author tries 3 different AI assistants and notes their issue and pitfalls in helping them with their paper.

CDC Urges Hospitals to Speed Influenza A Subtyping for Bird Flu This Medical News article discusses new guidance for clinicians and laboratories to prevent delays in detecting human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) infection.

This Medical News article discusses new guidance for clinicians and laboratories to prevent delays in detecting human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) infection.

#MedSky

How to Hold a Better Class Discussion Good discussions involve taking risks, by the students and the professor. This comprehensive guide is filled with tips to help improve yours.

Every professor has experienced that anxiety-producing moment when a promising class discussion fizzles out. You might think that's serendipity, but with careful planning, there are ways to avoid the frustration of a sea of impassive faces. chroni.cl/3XtOG2T

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

New article in Nature looks at the institutions with the highest retraction rates. 

Most are in China.

New in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery:

"The commercialization of open access publishing: progress or predicament?"

https://jnis.bmj.com/content/17/3/231

This USPSTF review summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for, and treatment of, #osteoporosis to prevent fractures in adults.

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#MedSky

From Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods:

Common statistical errors in systematic reviews: A tutorial

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cesm.70013

Alert on Solicitations from “Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism”

Alert from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism on a predatory journal soliciting submissions under a VERY similar name.