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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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Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Source: BMJ. 2009 Dec 8;339:b5106. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5106.
Relevance Rating: 7
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for preventing vaccine-type invasive pneumococcal disease and X-ray defined pneumonia in children less than two years of age.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7;(4):CD004977.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Psychosocial stress at work doubles the risk of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged women: evidence from the Whitehall II study.
Source: Diabetes Care. 2009 Dec;32(12):2230-5. Epub 2009 Aug 31.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Randomized trial of a behavioral weight loss intervention for low-income women: the Weight Wise Program.
Source: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Oct;17(10):1891-9. Epub 2009 Apr 30.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Adherence feedback to improve asthma outcomes among inner-city children: a randomized trial.
Source: Pediatrics. 2009 Dec;124(6):1513-21.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Interventions to promote the wearing of hearing protection.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7;(4):CD005234.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Forecasting the effects of obesity and smoking on U.S.. life expectancy.
Source: N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 3;361(23):2252-60.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Vaccination with ALVAC and AIDSVAX to Prevent HIV-1 Infection in Thailand.
Source: N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 3;361(23):2209-2220. Epub 2009 Oct 20.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Vaccines for preventing influenza in people with cystic fibrosis.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7;(4):CD001753.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Effect of increased exercise in school children on physical fitness and endothelial progenitor cells: a prospective randomized trial.
Source: Circulation. 2009 Dec 1;120(22):2251-9. Epub 2009 Nov 17.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

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