11 million Americans may need to discuss taking different #statin, asprin, and #bloodpressure medication prescriptions with their doctor. Read more in latest from Annals: bit.ly/2JhizLJ.

update of cochrane review on antibiotics for exacerbations of COPD out cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Read about finding the balance between #benefitsandharms when using #statins for #PrimaryPrevention of CVD in Annals of Int Med. What a success @YebyoHenock, Hélène Aschmann and Milo Puhan! @uzh_en UZH President annals.org/aim/fullarticl…

New today: #Statins significantly over-prescribed for primary prevention of #heartdisease bit.ly/2rkGhzm

By involving patients in their research, researchers learn from other people’s experience, which then changes their own thinking, values, choices, and actions says Kristina Staley in The BMJ ow.ly/8zdc30mQk2z

Our Prof. Hothorn is one of them! Congrats!

Cholesterinsenker werden zu häufig zur Primärprävention von Herzinfarkt oder Hirnschkag empfohlen. Das hat Nebenwirkungen, wie #UZH-Forschende zeigen. media.uzh.ch/de/medienmitte…

Media Release (Ger) by Universität Zürich on the recent paper by our @YebyoHenock, Hélène E. Aschman and Milo Puhan. Exciting findings on the harm-benefit balance of #statin use for primary #CVD #prevention & enormous media attention. Read the study here: annals.org/article.aspx?d…

Taking cholesterol-lowering drugs as a preventive measure can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. A study by #UZH now shows that this measure is recommended too often, as current guidelines fail to take into account the risks of side effects. media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Relea…

Für unsere Forschenden! Der Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) sucht wieder die besten Wissenschaftsbilder und -videos, die inspirieren, Wissen vermitteln und Geschichten erzählen. Eingabeschluss: 31.01.2019. #Forschung #Wettbewerb bit.ly/2APh7Ns

Publication alert @SAGENeuro: Factors associated with time from onset to #diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and treatment start. Congrats M Kaufmann for your first paper! bit.ly/2rrLCVf #SwissMSRegistry #MultipleSclerosis #MS #MSresearch

Delays in diagnosis and treatment of #MultipleSclerosis in Switzerland 🇨🇭 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Congrats to our newest graduate! Very well done Dr. Adam! 🎉

We are very proud to be introducing a new course, starting from the upcoming academic semester. "Introduction to Health Care Epidemiology" will aim to acquaint students to the aims and methods of health care epidemiology & health services research. Link: idrialit.uzh.ch/FS19/lehrangeb…

Full house today at Laura Barin‘s PhD Defense on clinical and patient-cantered perspectives of Multiple Sclerosis! #MS

New work from our Travel Medicine Division, a systematic #review on the infectious disease profiles of #Syrian and #Eritrean #migrants in Europe: bit.ly/2jLtPVp Congrats to Egon P Isenring, Prof. Fehr, and patschlagenhauf! Elsevier News #publichealth #Refugees

A recent effort by Matthias Bopp and Ueli Zellweger. #EndOfLife #geographicvariation #openaccess x.com/BMCMedicine/st…

Our #biostatistics collaboration with Uganda's #Makerere University continues. Congrats to our very own Muriel Buri & Sonja Hartnack for securing the required funding and going back to #Kampala to share their expertise with local Masters and PhDs. Zurich R User Group

Our very own Thomas Radtke and PD Holger Dressel recently published with Elsevier: can #sputum properties track changes over time in #cysticfibrosis? Its high within-subject #variability suggests the use of multiple measurements... bit.ly/2k3Gzqn