Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC; Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY; Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD, Central University Hospital…
David Liebovitz, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Medical Director of Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, discusses real time surveillance to identify all patients in…
As part of the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, Dr. Joanne Jordan, director of the University of North Carolina Thurston Arthritis Research Center, and colleagues have found that African…
The fruit fly had 15 minutes of fame during the 2008 presidential general election campaign when it was suggested that money could be better spent than on fruit…
In an article published in July 9, 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Daniel Clarke-Pearson, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at…
Chad Deal, MD, Rheumatologist, Head, Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, Cleveland Clinic, discusses a new antiresorptive agent for osteoporosis, denosumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody that…
Gregg Takashima, DVM, president elect of AAHA, discusses standardization of medical records as a method to improve quality and consistency in animal care. For more information about the…
The US House of Representatives late this week took a first step toward fixing the broken Medicare payment formula by voting 243-183 to pass the Medicare Physician Payment…
Scott Nelson, MD, talks at the 2009 NAMC Conference in Santa Ana Pueblo New Mexico, about how physicians can better communicate with terminally ill patients. Reading: Shama ME,…
Roni Zeiger, lead product manager at Google Health, speaks to The Doctors Channel at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco 2009 about personal health records and how…
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director, Plastic Surgery Research, Head, Microsurgery Training, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the techinical challenges of face transplants versus hand transplants, citing the difficulty of the…
