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Volume 13 Issue 5 - May 2010
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| NHS Evidence accredits sources of guidance | |
| News | |
| SIGN releases guideline on the management of sore throat | |
| DH publishes practice guidance on ‘NHS continuing healthcare’ | |
| Updated Guideline | |
| The SIGN algorithm simplifies drug treatment of blood glucose | |
| Professor John Petrie, Dr Richard Quigley, and Dr Moray Nairn discuss the SIGN 116 guideline on diabetes and the influence of recent trial data and advances in drug therapy | |
| Updated Guideline | |
| Sustained behavioural change is needed for management of obesity | |
| Dr Kevin McConville outlines the SIGN recommendations on the classification, prevention, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults and children | |
| New Guideline | |
| ACS and anginal chest pain require different diagnostic pathways | |
| Dr Rajiv Rampat discusses the NICE guideline on the assessment of recent onset chest pain caused by suspected acute coronary syndrome or angina | |
| New Guideline | |
| Neuropathic pain can be managed in |
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| Professor Blair H. Smith explains how the NICE guideline on neuropathic pain provides much needed advice on the pharmacological treatment of this condition in primary care | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Play games to get your doctor’s attention | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol | |

