December 2nd, 2020The health harms associated with prolonged sitting can be offset by exceeding weekly recommended physical activity levels, says the World Health Organization (WHO) in new global guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour, published in a...
August 26th, 2020A subcommittee of the American Thoracic Society Assembly in Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology has released new clinical practice guidelines to help advise clinicians on the optimal management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
August 19th, 2020A consensus review involving five world federations and 33 medical societies spanning 25 countries has released recommendations for the minimum clinical standards for determination of brain death/death by neurologic criteria in adults and children....
April 22nd, 2020
An analysis by researchers from Imperial College London and Sechenov University in Moscow has found that around 1% of children have cow's milk allergy, but up to 14% of families believe their child to have the condition. The team point to official...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated its guidance for the use of lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay (LAM) in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). Following new evidence, WHO now recommends more broader use of urinary LAM...Guidelines
A review of research, conducted by an international group of experts under the aegis of the American College of Sports Medicine, has resulted in the development of new exercise guidelines for cancer survivors. The updated recommendations outline...
October 16th, 2019
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) have published updated guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and certain changes could prove...
Routine testing for bowel cancer should not be recommended for everyone aged 50-79 years because, for those at very low risk, the benefit is small and uncertain and there are potential harms, say a panel of international experts. But they say...
September 11th, 2019The latest UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on antihypertensives "should be welcomed" as "a pragmatic compromise", writes The Lancet in an editorial.
The latest UK National Institute for Health and...
July 10th, 2019In new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine developments, a US federal advisory group has expanded recommendations to include men through age 26 and some older adults, and a large meta-analysis with data on 60m people from 14 countries found that the...
For the first time, the American College of Physicians has released a comprehensive guide for transgender care – a significant endorsement of gender-affirming care from the nation's second-largest physician group. The central aim of the document...
May 15th, 2019The World Health Organisation has launched its first ever guidelines on how people can help avoid getting dementia.
People can reduce their risk of dementia by getting regular exercise, not smoking, avoiding harmful use of alcohol, controlling...
May 8th, 2019Clinical guidance for radiation therapy after prostatectomy has been was amended by the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
Guideline Statement 2 was modified to account for the latest data from three randomized controlled trials evaluating...
May 1st, 2019The authors of influential US guidelines for opioid prescriptions for chronic pain say that doctors and others in the health care system had wrongly implemented their recommendations and cut off patients who should have received pain...
April 17th, 2019A UK clinical review provides new interim advice for doctors and clinicians in prescribing cannabis-based products and cannabinoids to treat certain conditions.
Since a policy change in November 2018, specialist doctors registered with the UK’s...
April 17th, 2019Pregnant women can lower the risk of stillbirth by sleeping on their side and NOT on their back, according to an international meta-analysis. The finding has been taken up as part of official National Health Service (NHS) guidance.
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