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COVID-19 back to work testing relaxed for GPs

7th August 2020
GPs and other health workers who have had COVID-19 will no longer have to return two negative PCR tests before returning to…
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New guide on how to determine brain death

6th August 2020
International experts say a clinical examination demonstrating coma, brainstem areflexia and apnoea should be used to…
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Specialist Updates Cardiology

CVD services need to actively manage COVID-19 threat, experts say

5th August 2020
Patients with underlying CVD have the highest risk of mortality from COVID-19 and cardiac services need to put strategies in…
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Calcium scoring will change statin treatment decisions: study

4th August 2020
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring could reclassify many patients’ cardiovascular risk and change decisions about statin…
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Screen kids at risk of type 2 diabetes: New guidelines

6th July 2020
A more targeted approach to screening for type 2 diabetes is needed in children and adolescents, according to doctors who…
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Medication can be considered for prediabetes, peak groups say

19th June 2020
GPs can consider metformin or other glucose-lowering drugs to prevent progression to type 2 diabetes in patients with…
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'Caution needed' on hospital visits for patients with blood-borne viruses during pandemic

29th April 2020
Initiation of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C can be deferred in people with pre-cirrhosis stages of liver…
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