Guidelines News

Having a heart attack or going into cardiac arrest is something we all fear, but technology has given us the Automated External Defibrillator, or AED. A life saving device such as the AED should be readily available in most public places, but it's not.

Kuala Lumpur - The Malaysian Education Ministry has denied reports that, worried about the spread of the "unhealthy phenomenon " of homosexuality and "working to curb the problem," it endorsed guidelines to help parents identify "symptoms" of gay orientation.

Philadelphia - It seems as if every new study on mammography or breast cancer screening guidelines fuels yet another controversy about the right approach to this process for many women.

In an effort to create more active Canadians, experts at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) are developing a new set of fitness guidelines that will make it easier to follow.

Manila - The President of the Philippines had approved a simple list of do’s and don’t’s in the code of conduct for state workers in the Philippines.

After months of debate, the Texas State Board of Education has approved new guidelines to their Social Studies Curriculum.

The Canadian Medical Association has issued national guidelines to assist the prescription of pain medication. The aim is to ensure that proper assessment and treatment are conducted to prevent abuse, addiction and overdose of opioid painkillers.

Many students and parents are 'weirded out' about teachers being on the popular social-networking websites Facebook and MySpace after grade-school kids Tweeted about their teachers being on the websites.

The British government has published guidelines for its departments on how best to use the microblogging service Twitter.

New guidelines banning purely promotion gifts to physicians were adopted by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and took effect January 1. Will it make a difference?