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 MEDICAL NEWS | | JULY |  July 20, 1897
the birthday of Tadeus Reichstein, the Nobel Prize laureates in physiology/medicine with Edward Kendall and Philip Hench in 1950 for discoveries of hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects. |  July 11
World Population Day |
1. New sites:
2. The American Heart Association and other medical societies published “2010 Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in People With Diabetes” .
3. There are new and updated reviews and protocols from “The Cochrane Library, Issue 6, 2010”.
4. The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement released thirteenth edition of the guideline “Depression, Major, in Adults in Primary Care” and third edition of the guideline “Primary Prevention of Chronic Disease Risk Factors”.
5. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on clinical expert consensus documents and the American Heart Association “Approaches to the FDA “Boxed Warning”” is issued.
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2. A new report “Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States” is published by the Institute of Medicine.
3. The United States Renal Data System is a national data system that collects, analyzes, and distributes information about end-stage renal disease in the United States. A new report “United States Renal Data System: the concise 2009 Annual Data Report” is published.
4. The North American Menopause Society published position The North American Menopause Society is to publish position statements “Estrogen and progestogen use in postmenopausal women” is published. The conclusion is “The benefit-risk ratio for menopausal hormone therapy is favorable for women who initiate hormone therapy close to menopause but decreases in older women and with time since menopause in previously untreated women.”
5. The World Health Organization (WHO) expert consultation concludes that the metabolic syndrome has little utility as a diagnostic or management tool. The different definitions of the metabolic syndrome hamper its epidemiological utility, though it can be used as an educational concept. It should not, however, be applied as a clinical diagnosis, and should instead be considered as a pre-morbid condition. More...
6. The American Heart Association and other medical societies published “2010 Expert Consensus Document on Cardiovascular Magneitc Resonance”, “2010 Expert Consensus Document on Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography” and “Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease”.
7. The journals ranked by impact in allergy are presented by Sci-Bytes. More...
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