In the News
Guideline issued for survivors of head and neck cancers
The clinical practice guideline addresses 5 key areas: surveillance for recurrence, screening for second primary cancers, assessment and management of physical and psychosocial long-term and late effects, health promotion, and care coordination and practice implications.
ACP recommends policies to curb prescription drug costs
Transparency in pricing, cost, and comparative value and elimination of restrictions on using quality-adjusted life-years in comparative effectiveness research are 2 of the recommendations.
MKSAP Quiz: 2-year history of rheumatoid arthritis
This week's quiz asks readers to evaluate a 52-year-old man during a follow-up visit for a 2-year history of progressively symptomatic rheumatoid arthritis.
Morning home blood pressure strongly predicts coronary artery disease, stroke events, study finds
Patients in the study were instructed in guideline-directed home blood pressure (BP) measurement technique and were asked to measure BP twice in the morning on 2 different days for each measurement point.
Communication of individual risk factors to patients shows small potential for preventing major depression
Adult primary care patients in Spain received usual care or an intervention in which the primary care clinician communicated individual risk for depression, then constructed a tailored bio-psycho-family-social intervention and provided a booklet with strategies for avoiding depression.
New opioid warnings, powdered glove ban
The FDA announced plans to add new warnings to opioids and to ban powdered medical gloves last week.
ACP cohosting Guidelines International Network conference in Philadelphia
G-I-N is a global network that supports the implementation of evidence-based care and aims to strengthen and support the development and adaptation of clinical guidelines. This year's theme is “Individualized Guidelines and Clinical Performance Measurement in an Era of Personalized Medicine.”
Put words in our mouth
ACP Internist Weekly wants readers to create captions for our new cartoon and help choose the winner. Pen the winning caption and win a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program, or service.