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Type 2 diabetes ‘remission’ is a reality, say major organizations
A new consensus statement by four major diabetes organizations aims to standardize the definition and assessment of type 2 diabetes ‘remission.’...
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ACR updates COVID vaccine guidance with booster schedule
New recommendations advise on the timing of a third vaccine dose for immunocompromised patients, based on current medications and disease activity...
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New recommendations address ME/CFS diagnosis and management
Document is based on expert clinician experience in illness that has long been overlooked and inappropriately managed.
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Eyes on ESC ‘21: Hope for EMPEROR-Preserved, guidelines remade
But the congress will feature far more than, potentially, results the heart failure world has been longing to see and a raft of new guidelines....
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US Preventive Services Task Force lowers diabetes screening age for overweight
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Expert Review on colonoscopy quality improvement
Quality of colonoscopy screening and surveillance is shaped by three parameters: safety, effectiveness, and value.
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Task force affirms routine gestational diabetes testing
USPSTF recommendation includes asymptomatic women with no previous diabetes diagnosis at 24 weeks’ gestation or later.
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AGA Clinical Practice Update Expert Review: Management of malignant alimentary tract obstruction
Whatever approach is taken, it needs to take into account characteristics of the obstruction and the patient’s expectations, prognosis, and...
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ESC heart failure guideline to integrate bounty of new meds
It has a simple answer to a seemingly complex issue: how to merge the newly approved with mainstay drug therapies. And it conditionally okays meds...
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ACC issues decision pathway for hypertriglyceridemia management
“In light of the controversies regarding the REDUCE-IT trial, the writing committee has done a nice job with providing useful guidance regarding...
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Three new ACR guidelines recommend treatment for six forms of vasculitis
Nearly all of the recommendations made in the three guidelines for giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa, and three...