Hematology/Oncology
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Special Feature: Maintaining Board Certification
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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XRT to Prevent Local Breast Cancer Recurrence: A Little More is Better
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Ascites, Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, and Ovarian Cancer
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Clinical Staging and Chemoradiation for Early Stage Hodgkin’s Disease
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Tamoxifen and Breast Cancer Incidence Among Women with Inherited Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2
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CDC, NIH lab lapses with deadly agents lead to calls to halt research
A recent series of stunning lapses and oversights in federal research labs working with deadly pathogens and potential bioterror agents has heightened calls for a moratorium on such research until biosafety and security can be assured. -
PEG and J-tube Placement Is Associated with High In-hospital Mortality
Percutaneous gastrostomy (PEG) and jejunostomy (J) tubes are utilized in hospital practice for medical or surgical patients in whom oral nutrition is either inadequate to meet caloric needs or unsafe as a result of structural or functional abnormality. -
Why Is the Hospitalization Rate for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Increasing?
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and has been the leading arrhythmic cause for hospitalization. With an increasing trend toward outpatient care of subacute illness, it is possible that the AF hospitalization rate is stable or decreasing despite the aging population. -
Discontinuity of Care Is Associated with Increased Hospital Cost
This study demonstrated an association between increased discontinuity of physician care in the inpatient setting and increased hospital costs at a tertiary care center.