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Formal recommendations from medical societies and health bodies that guide clinicians on diagnosis, prevention, and treatment across diseases.
AHA and ACC released their first dyslipidemia guidelines since 2018, adding coronary artery calcium, ApoB and Lp(a) to the risk workup. Their stated rationale is how long a patient's cholesterol has been high.
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A clinician's STAT News essay says SIO, ASCO and NCCN guidelines already recommend acupuncture, mindfulness and exercise for cancer symptoms, and it asks insurers to cover what those documents endorse.
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Two cardiology bodies have set out how clinicians should judge whether someone is fit to answer the next call, filling a gap the writing group's vice chair says he spotted after decades of guidance written for competitive sport.
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After 14 years without a revision, US neurologists and headache specialists have folded CGRP-targeted drugs into the front rank of migraine prevention. That changes the first conversation in the clinic and the coverage fight behind it.
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Two August analyses of the same cohort found calcium scores only change predictions at borderline and intermediate PREVENT risk. CTs ordered for other reasons did the job as well.
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