Eve Bender June 20, 2024 A position statement released by the American Headache Society (AHS) earlier this year recommended adding calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)–targeting medications to the list of first-line therapies for migraine prevention. The guidance replaces recommendations published in 2021 that advised clinicians consider CGRP therapy only after patients fail at least two classes...
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The CDC may be reconsidering its COVID isolation guidance
Pien Huang Tested positive for COVID and wondering whether you should isolate? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon change its guidelines. Patrick Sison/APThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon drop its isolation guidance for people with COVID-19. The planned change was reported in The Washington Post on Tuesday, attributed to...
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Guidance for prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment of hepatitis C virus in chronic kidney disease
by American College of Physicians Credit: CC0 Public Domain The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers guidance for the prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The guideline is a targeted update to 2018 recommendations on the same topic and...
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A ‘One-Stop Shop’: New Guidance on Hormones and Aging
Miriam E. Tucker June 19, 2023 A new statement from The Endocrine Society on hormones and aging highlights the differences between normal aging and disease, and when treatment is and isn’t appropriate. The idea of the statement “is to be complete, but also to clarify some misunderstandings…We tried to be very clear in the language about what...
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Should Older Seniors Risk Major Surgery? New Research Offers Guidance
Judith Graham Nearly 1 in 7 older adults die within a year of undergoing major surgery, according to an important new study that sheds much-needed light on the risks seniors face when having invasive procedures. Especially vulnerable are older patients with probable dementia (33% die within a year) and frailty (28%), as well as those having emergency...