guidelines

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On Tuesday, the AHA and three other medical societies published the first guidelines to help clinicians prevent and manage CKM, as it is called, urging them to focus on their patients’ overall metabolic health.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Large international studies have found that the kidney disease drug finerenone may benefit far more patients than current treatment guidelines recommend.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

These factors, and others, convinced the judge that he could not detain the boys because the guidelines for sentencing children say that custody is a "last resort", with the priority being rehabilitation.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Such unofficial guidelines govern all kinds of white-collar offices, but nowhere do they carry more weight than on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Some federal judges, including conservative judges, have quit in protest of federal drug laws and sentencing guidelines.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander