One of the areas I have found most challenging in menopause care is choosing the right progestogen. Not because options are lacking — but because there are several, each with subtly different properties, and the differences are often poorly explained in everyday practice. I realised I was not as clear as I wanted to be … Continue reading Making Sense of Progestogens in HRT: What I Learned When I Went Back to the Evidence
Category: Critical review
Enhanced Glucose Processing in Gestational Diabetes: Shifting the Diagnostic Landscape
Jones DL, Kusinski LC, Barker P, Burling K, Halsall I, Turner E, et al. Enhanced glucose processing in gestational diabetes diagnosis: Effects on health equity and clinical outcomes. Diabet Med. 2024 Dec 17;e15476. The diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has always been a fraught territory. Relying on the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), we … Continue reading Enhanced Glucose Processing in Gestational Diabetes: Shifting the Diagnostic Landscape
Improvements in Stress, Affect, and Irritability Following Brief Use of a Mindfulness-based Smartphone App: A Randomized Controlled Trial – Economides et al, 2018
Available here - full text. One area which I reviewed as part of my foundation module in pain was Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to see if there was any benefit for chronic pain sufferers. From what I found in a number of papers I reviewed was that pain scores do not change but acceptance of … Continue reading Improvements in Stress, Affect, and Irritability Following Brief Use of a Mindfulness-based Smartphone App: A Randomized Controlled Trial – Economides et al, 2018
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