Guidelines
Guidelines
New MIS-C guidance addresses diagnostic challenges, cardiac care
New updates in this third version of the American College of Rheumatology’s guidance include a recommendation for dual therapy with IVIg and...
Literature Review
ILAE offers first guide to treating depression in epilepsy
Recommendations cover first-line treatment of unipolar depression in epilepsy without other psychiatric disorders.
Guidelines
CDC releases updated draft guidance on opioid prescribing
The CDC has released an updated draft of its 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids and is soliciting public comment before it...
Guidelines
Wilderness Medical Society issues clinical guidelines for tick-borne illness
The guidelines focus on resource-limited settings.
Guidelines
AAN updates treatment guidance on painful diabetic neuropathy
The guideline recommends offering one of four classes of oral medications found to be effective for neuropathic pain.
Guidelines
Guideline gives weak support to trying oral medical cannabis for chronic pain
Does oral medical cannabis work in chronic pain? Here’s what the evidence says.
Conference Coverage
New European guidelines on CVD prevention
A chief goal of the guideline task force was to create a single CVD prevention guideline for everyone.
Guidelines
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.
Guidelines
AHA: Physical activity best first-line for high BP, cholesterol
Advice to sit less and move more is a critical component of first-line treatment for patients with mild to moderate hypertension and elevated...
Guidelines
New AHA/ASA guideline on secondary stroke prevention
Identifying the cause of a first stroke or transient ischemic attack is key to developing strategies to prevent repeat events, the AHA/ASA says in...
FDA/CDC
AHA reassures myocarditis rare after COVID vaccination, benefits overwhelm risks
As CDC investigates rare, mostly mild cases of myocarditis in adolescents and young adults given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, AHA emphasizes...