New guidelines recommend antibiotic treatment for sore throats in high-risk children and adolescents without diagnostic confirmation of strep A to prevent acute rheumatic fever. Released…
The first update to gestational diabetes guidelines in a decade has raised the glucose thresholds for diagnosis, aiming to reduce over-medicalisation for women with low-risk…
Find bad medical evidence before it kills people. That is the motto of the newly launched Medical Evidence Project. It was set up by the…
Preterm birth, that is birth prior to 37 completed weeks’ gestation, is associated with more challenges to health, growth and child development compared with birth…
Women should be managed for recurrent miscarriage if they have had two pregnancy losses before 20 weeks’ gestation, even if the losses are not consecutive,…
The NHMRC has approved the first guidelines on diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, setting a minimum prenatal alcohol exposure threshold of two standard drinks a…
Doctors can diagnose endometriosis with transvaginal ultrasound or MRI and start hormonal treatments to manage symptoms while diagnostic investigations are underway, updated guidelines say. RANZCOG’s…
A set of drug-specific antidepressant deprescribing guidelines targeting a “poorly understood” area of clinical practice has received RACGP endorsement. Developed by University of Queensland researchers,…
Draft prostate cancer screening guidelines aim to shift away from discretionary testing by individual doctors and towards a more organised approach, with earlier testing using…
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