Revised last year, substantive changes include additional recommendations for psychotherapy as well as several additional medications.

In the future, more and more children with cardiac risk factors, such as obesity and diabetes, will be treated in the primary-care setting.

Start with antisecretory drugs, i.e., proton-pump inhibitors, then make medication, dosage, and lifestyle changes to suit the individual patient.

The revised position statement issued by the North American Menopause Society evaluates the latest evidence and offers recommendations on who should pursue hormone therapy.

Updated guidelines spell out therapy for superficial as well as life-threatening disease variants that are the product of modern medicine.

Effective treatment may ease the pain of peptic ulcer disease and gastritis, prevent progression of gastric malignancy, and ease iron deficiency anemia.

In its first Scientific Statement to focus on this issue, the American Heart Association stresses the need for evaluation that spreads a broad net to identify contributing and secondary causes and treatment options that go beyond the usual antihypertensives.

In more and more cases, celiac disease doesn't look the way you might expect.

Primary-care physicians play a crucial role in helping patients choose the right test for them.

The ADA takes a practical approach, backing treatments that have demonstrated benefit.