"Health & Medical News"

Buried in clinical guidelines and buffeted by the latest published research findings, what’s a physician to do when faced with a patient and a 15-minute treatment window? Begin to sort through the conflicting guidelines or analyze the latest research studies?

A Jan. 24 Institute of Medicine report suggests a way to bring order from the chaos that surrounds conflicting clinical guidelines and questions about how to choose the best available diagnostic, treatment or preventive service — but Congress would have to create a federal program to make it happen.

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Washington — Stopping diabetes before it starts is the aim of several new recommendations intended to help physicians in the fight to curb the spread of the disease, which affects 7% of the population.

Screening more widely for patients with prediabetes and stepping up preventive measures for those who have started down the path toward type 2 diabetes are among the suggestions made recently by the American Diabetes Assn.

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Washington — Two national medical societies issued guidelines on Oct. 22 for treating chemotherapy-related anemia with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents to pressure Medicare into expanding its coverage. Their move follows a decision by Aetna to cover a more relaxed protocol for the medications than the government adopted.

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