Obesity: Identification, Assessment, and Management
Updated in September 2022, this summary covers the identification and classification of overweight and obesity in children and adults, with advice on lifestyle and drug management
Ocular Trauma: Devastating Eye Injuries
Ocular injuries can be catastrophic and result in permanent vision loss. These 8 eye injuries require quick treatment to prevent devastating outcomes.
Mole or Melanoma? Test Yourself | Falls in the Elderly | Testicular Disorders
Mole or Melanoma? Test Yourself With These Suspicious Lesions | Testicular Disorders: Trouble Doesn’t Always Come in Pairs | Falls in the Elderly: Causes, Injuries, and Management
The Role of Aspirin Today
Aspirin has been used very successfully to the present day as therapy for joint pain or arthritis. But as you know, it’s also effective in headaches, in particular, tension-type headache. I think it’s one of the most used drugs in the world for the treatment of acute migraine attacks.
Guidelines in Practice More Highlights of 2018
This is the final Guidelines in Practice Highlights email of the year and, therefore, a good time to look back over the last 12 months. We have continued our popular differential diagnoses series, with articles on rashes in children, red eye, chronic cough in adults, and low back pain. These articles present a range of…
Guidelines in practice Highlights 2018
Demonstrating continuing professional development (CPD) We hope that you have enjoyed reading Guidelines in Practice articles throughout 2018, and that you have learnt a lot from them. With the end of year fast approaching, why not reflect on what you have learnt in 2018 and gain CPD credits with Guidelines Learning? Guidelines Learning enables you…
Highlights of 2018
As we are nearing the end of another year, I would like to take a few moments to look back over selected developments in health and medicine during 2018. We saw a continued focus on the promotion of antimicrobial stewardship, with NICE publishing a UTI antimicrobial prescribing strategy for lower UTIs and recurrent UTIs—both feature…
Coeliac Disease: an under-recognised and under-managed disease
Coeliac Disease (CD) is not only under-diagnosed but also an under-managed condition, associated with serious long-term complications. Patients can present with the classical ‘symptomatic’ features of CD or they can present with secondary CD, where the pathology occurs with no overt gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms; commonly picked up by case-finding. Who to test Examples of co-morbid…
Early diagnosis of HIV vastly improves prognosis
Improvements in the treatments offered to people with HIV mean that it is now manageable as a chronic condition. HIV is mostly managed in secondary care but there are some aspects that GPs need to be aware of, which Dr Toni Hazell discusses in this week’s featured article. Early diagnosis of HIV vastly improves prognosis,…
Guidelines: Top tips – community-acquired pneumonia
This week’s featured article is a top tips article on the primary care assessment and management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. Identifying which patients with a lower respiratory tract infection have pneumonia, and which of those with pneumonia require admission to hospital, can prove challenging. Dr Sinan Eccles provides advice on diagnosing pneumonia based on…