Online information in Spanish on probiotics, yoghurt, kefir, kombucha, fibre and prebiotics: an analysis of the quality of information and the certainty of the evidence supporting health claims.

Objective: To examine the certainty of the evidence supporting health claims about probiotics, yoghurt, kefir, kombucha, fibre and prebiotics, and to assess the quality of online information in Spanish.

Design: Content analysis.

Methods: We compiled a data set of 114 web pages by searching six popular search phrases in Spanish relating to probiotics, yoghurt, kefir, kombucha, fibre and prebiotics on Google.

[Communication in times of pandemic: information, disinformation, and provisional lessons from the coronavirus crisis].

Objective: To characterise the infodemic associated with the COVID-19 and to analyse information consumption, trust in sources, the role of the media and government communication, focusing in the case of Spain, as well as to discuss some provisional communication lessons from studies on this and other pandemics.

Method: Bibliographic search in PubMed and Scopus and review of selected documents with the criteria of relevance to the objectives and the Spanish setting.

Results: The COVID-19 pandemic has overlapped with an infodemic that has led to the largest avalanche of disinformation known to date and to difficulties in finding reliable information for almost half of the population.

Teaching and learning how to make informed health choices: Protocol for a context analysis in Spanish primary schools.

The Informed Health Choices (IHC) project developed learning resources to teach primary school children (10 to 12-year-olds) to assess treatment claims and make informed health choices. The aim of our study is to explore the educational context for teaching and learning critical thinking about health in Spanish primary schools. During the 2020-2021 school year, we will conduct 1) a systematic assessment of educational documents and resources, and 2) semi-structured interviews with key education and health stakeholders.

Microbiome research in general and business newspapers: How many microbiome articles are published and which study designs make the news the most?

The microbiome is a matter of interest for science, consumers and business. Our objective is to quantify that interest in academic journals and newspapers, both quantitatively and by study design. We calculated the number of articles on the microbiome from the total number of biomedicine articles featured in both PubMed and Spanish science news agency SINC, from 2008 to 2018.

Online Information of Vaccines: Information Quality, Not Only Privacy, Is an Ethical Responsibility of Search Engines.

The fact that Internet companies may record our personal data and track our online behavior for commercial or political purpose has emphasized aspects related to online privacy. This has also led to the development of search engines that promise no tracking and privacy. Search engines also have a major role in spreading low-quality health information such as that of anti-vaccine websites.

Overexpression of Gene in Inhibits Cell Division and Causes Envelope Defects without Changing the Overall Phosphorylation Level of Lipid A.

LpxT is an inner membrane protein that transfers a phosphate group from the essential lipid undecaprenyl pyrophosphate (C-55PP) to the lipid A moiety of lipopolysaccharide, generating a lipid A -phosphorylated species. The protein is encoded by the non-essential gene, which is conserved in distantly related Gram-negative bacteria. In this work, we investigated the phenotypic effect of ectopic expression from a plasmid in .

Nutrimedia: A novel web-based resource for the general public that evaluates the veracity of nutrition claims using the GRADE approach.

The objective of Nutrimedia is to evaluate, based on the scientific evidence, the veracity of nutrition claims disseminated to the public by the media. In this article, we describe the methodology, characteristics and contents of this web-based resource, as well as its web traffic and media impact since it was launched. Nutrimedia uses a systematic process to evaluate common beliefs, claims from newspapers and advertising identified and selected by its research team, as well as questions from the public.

National citation patterns of , , and in the lay press: a quantitative content analysis.

Objectives: To analyse the total number of newspaper articles citing the four leading general medical journals and to describe national citation patterns.

Design: Quantitative content analysis.

Setting/sample: Full text of 22 general newspapers in 14 countries over the period 2008-2015, collected from LexisNexis.

Sensitization to horse allergens in Italy: a multicentre study in urban atopic subjects without occupational exposure.

Background: Horses play a significant role in people's leisure time in Italy and other countries, but few data are available on IgE-mediated sensitization to horse allergens in patients without occupational exposure. We assessed, in a multicentric survey, the prevalence of horse sensitization in atopic subjects and its clinical characteristics.

Methods: Allergists from the whole Italian territory were required to collect the results of skin prick tests from at least 100 consecutive subjects.

The VISYT trial: Venom Immunotherapy Safety and Tolerability with purified vs nonpurified extracts.

Background: Venom immunotherapy (VIT) is a highly effective treatment but can induce systemic adverse effects.

Objective: To evaluate the safety and tolerability of VIT with purified and nonpurified extracts for treating yellow jacket and honeybee allergy.

Methods: Ninety-four patients (mean age, 46 years) with a history of insect venom allergy were randomly allocated to undergo purified extract VIT (group A [44 patients]) or nonpurified extract VIT (group B [50 patients]).

Characteristics of patients with allergic polysensitization: the POLISMAIL study.

Background: The natural history of respiratory allergy is commonly characterized by a worsening of symptom severity, frequent comorbidity of rhinitis and asthma, and polysensitization to aeroallergens. The polysensitization phenomenon starts since childhood and is rare to find monosensitized adult patients. However, there are few studies investigating the characteristics of polysensitized patients.

Anaphylaxis to honey in pollinosis to mugwort: a case report.

A case of anaphylaxis to honey in a 19 year old female sensitized to Compositae pollen is described. The patient suffered from summer rhinoconjunctivitis since seven years; in January 2006, ten minutes after eating bread and honey she developed angioedema of the lips and tongue, runny nose, cough, dyspnoea, and collapse, requiring hospitalization and treatment with high dose corticosteroids and anti-histamines. After two weeks, skin prick tests (SPT) with a standard panel of inhalant allergens and prick + prick with a number of kinds of honey were performed.

Enteral feeding in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

Objective: The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a defined formula diet with a blenderized diet on nutritional and respiratory function parameters and to determine the bacteriological load of the two formulations.

Methodology: Seventeen patients, aged 50-75 years, admitted to the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital for chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema, were studied. They were divided into two groups according to dietary regimens.

[The health value in the daily press. El País (1976-90): the editorials].

The growing interest which the daily press in Spain has been showing in recent years on medical matters, health and public health in general is revealed when you study the number of articles which the daily newspaper El País has published on these subjects since its foundation in 1976 up until the end of 1990. During this time, the number of articles on this topic which have appeared have nearly quadrupled, rising from 1.8 in 1977 to 6.