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The American Academy of Pediatrics recently updated their guidelines to include recommendations for cholesterol screening and treatment in children. To prevent heart disease in adulthood, the physician group is advising pediatricians to aggressively address dyslipidemia in at-risk children and adolescents. Click here for more information.

New guidelines from two major endocrinology organizations recommend strategies for diagnosis and management of prediabetes.

For the first time, a panel of medical experts has suggested a specific age for ceasing prostate cancer screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) and digital rectal exams. In guidelines published in the August 5 Annals of Internal Medicine, the government-appointed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that such screening stop at age 75.

A coalition of international organizations will distribute in several developing countries a new test that quickly identifies multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis. The assay gives results in two days or less, which can be important in settings where the risk of infection with MDR-TB is high.