All articles tagged with #diagnostic guidelines
A confidential federal report prepared for the CDC’s ACIP urges sweeping changes to how Covid vaccine injuries are tracked and treated, proposing a dedicated vaccine-injury diagnostic category, updated diagnostic guidelines, and a network of research centers to study long-term harms from vaccines and the illness, signaling urgent policy action.
The 2025 IDSA guidelines recommend using clinical scoring systems like Centor or McIsaac criteria to guide testing for group A streptococcal pharyngitis, aiming to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use and improve diagnostic accuracy, marking a shift towards more selective testing based on pretest probability.
The Alzheimer’s Association has released the first clinical guidelines for blood-based biomarker tests to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, recommending tests with ≥ 90% sensitivity and specificity for replacing or triaging more invasive tests like PET scans or CSF analysis, aiming to improve early and accurate diagnosis while emphasizing the need for further research and validation.