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McMaster Plus Public Health + comes to you via the McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery. Every article from over 120 medical and allied health academic journals is critically appraised to identify those that are methodologically sound. Articles that pass this process are rated (maximum 7) by clinicians for relevance and newsworthiness, and are then sent to this website. The articles are updated weekly and a searchable archive is kept on this website.

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Three months of rifapentine and isoniazid for latent tuberculosis infection.
Source: N Engl J Med. 2011 Dec 8;365(23):2155-66.
Relevance Rating: 7
Newsworthiness Rating: 7

Interventions to reduce risky sexual behaviour for preventing HIV infection in workers in occupational settings.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Dec 7;12:CD005274.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Male circumcision and human papillomavirus infection in men: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Source: J Infect Dis. 2011 Nov;204(9):1375-90.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Probiotics for the prevention of pediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Nov 9;11:CD004827.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Norovirus Vaccine against Experimental Human Norwalk Virus Illness.
Source: N Engl J Med. 2011 Dec 8;365(23):2178-87.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years.
Source: CMAJ. 2011 Nov 22;183(17):1991-2001.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

The effect of an antenatal physical exercise programme on maternal/perinatal outcomes and quality of life in overweight and obese pregnant women: a randomised clinical trial.
Source: BJOG. 2011 Nov;118(12):1455-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03084.x. Epub 2011 Sep 6.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Increase of body weight during the first year of intensive insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Source: Diabetes Obes Metab. 2011 Nov;13(11):1008-19. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2011.01433.x.
Relevance Rating: 7
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Enhancing ventilation in homes of children with asthma: pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
Source: Br J Gen Pract. 2011 Nov;61(592):724-32.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Screening for prostate cancer: a review of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Source: Ann Intern Med. 2011 Dec 6;155(11):762-71. Epub 2011 Oct 7.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

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