Task Force

The United States Preventive Services Task Force added screening for chronic kidney disease to its list of preventive services under active consideration, according to a press release.

In this video exclusive with Healio Gastroenterology, Swati G. Patel MD, MS, discussed the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer’s updated screening recommendations for colorectal cancer.

In an interview with Nephrology News & Issues, Cynthia Delgado, MD, FASN, said the first report on the inclusion of race in eGFR was published 22 years ago following the results of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said it recommends screening for gestational diabetes in asymptomatic women who have been pregnant for 24 weeks or more.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends offering pregnant people behavioral counseling interventions to promote healthy weight gain during pregnancy.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued updated recommendations for colorectal cancer screening in JAMA.

A neonatal seizures task force established by the International League Against Epilepsy, or ILAE, published a new classification and framework for neonatal seizures that aligns with the ILAE’s 2017 classification of seizures and epilepsies.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that primary care clinicians provide interventions to prevent school-aged children and adolescents from using tobacco, such as offering education or brief counseling. However, the task force said there is insufficient evidence to support primary care interventions for the cessation of tobacco use among children who already smoke.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force wrote in JAMA that there is insufficient evidence to assess the benefits and harms of screening for cognitive impairment — its collective term for dementia and mild cognitive impairment — in older adults.