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Don’t make children with head lice leave school, report says
“A child or adolescent should not be restricted from school attendance because of head lice, given the low contagion within classrooms.”
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Expert review of management of refractory celiac disease
Refractory celiac disease can be challenging to diagnose and treat.
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Emphasis on weight loss in new type 2 diabetes guidance
No major changes but several shifts in emphasis since the last update in 2019, including weight loss as a co–primary goal of management.
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Docs gain new flexibility treating osteoporosis from steroids
In an updated guideline, the American College of Rheumatology made two important updates for prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced...
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AAP guidance helps distinguish bleeding disorders from abuse
Laboratory testing of bleeding cannot always rule out abuse, just as a history of trauma may not rule out a bleeding disorder or other medical...
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WPATH removes age limits from transgender treatment guidelines
Depending on interpretation, the latest version of the WPATH standards of care for transgender youth could be seen to have abandoned age limits on...
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ACC/AHA issue chest pain data standards update to 2021 guideline
The data standards are an effort to harmonize the language around chest pain and should be “broadly applicable,” the work group says.
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New ovulatory disorder classifications from FIGO replace 50-year-old system
Once an ovulatory disorder has been diagnosed, four basic categories provide a framework for classification.
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ACC fills gaps on guidance for nonstatin therapies for LDL-C lowering
The new guidance addresses the role of nonstatin therapies for lowering LDL-C, which were not addressed in the 2018 ACC/AHA guideline on...
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‘Conservative’ USPSTF primary prevention statin guidance finalized
The new statement invites comparison with the more comprehensive 2018 ACC/AHA-multisociety statin guidelines. A slew of editorials across several...
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Updates on treatment/prevention of VTE in cancer patients
“Because patients with cancer have a baseline increased risk of VTE, compared with patients without cancer, the combination of both COVID-19 and...