In this Oncology Brothers podcast episode, Naval Daver, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, discusses treatment strategies for both therapy‑related and de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML), focusing on cases…
Tara Lin, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, discusses how she approaches choosing induction therapy for patients with treatment-related acute myeloid leukemia, emphasizing that fitness…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients hospitalized for infection, continuing pre-existing statin therapy does not improve outcomes, and discontinuing the therapy does not lead to an inflammatory…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who have undergone laparoscopic surgery for endometrioma have a reduced risk of recurrence when they take low-dose oral contraceptives, a Korean team…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High-dose chemo followed by autologous stem-cell transplantation achieves good results in patients with relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and outcomes are not improved by additional…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The common practice of routinely testing patients with ischemic stroke for inherited thrombophilias can do more harm than good, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 1% of outpatient endoscopies require a subsequent visit to the emergency room for related complications, but fewer than a quarter of these…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In order to minimize the risk of potential harms, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in patients undergoing myelosuppressive chemotherapy should be administered at the lowest…
Pedram Mizani, MD, MHSA, CEO of AmeriClerkships, speaks at the 2010 AMA Annual Meeting, discusses the concept of acculturation. This means training doctors from early on learn culturally…
Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, delegate of the AMA Minority Affairs Consortium, talks at the annual AMA delegation about the importance of simplifying labeling to decrease obesity. Standards for…
Kenneth Simons, MD, Chair of the Section of Medical Schools at AMA, talks at the Annual AMA Delegation about the challenges in medical education, the first of which…
