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April 25th 2024
A retrospective study challenges preoperative withholding of GLP-1 RAs in diabetes patients undergoing surgery, citing no increased risk of postoperative respiratory complications.
Revolutionizing Early-Stage NSCLC Treatment: Pathologists’ Key Insights into Predicting Pathologic Responses to Immunotherapies
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23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® West
July 12-13, 2024
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25th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
July 25-27, 2024
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Medical Crossfire®: Which Patients with Hematologic Malignancies are at Risk for Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID)… and How Can We Leverage Evidence to Improve Their Outcomes?
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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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Engaging the Multidisciplinary Care Team to Optimize Care of Patients With EGFR Mutation-Positive NSCLC: A Lung Cancer Tumor Board
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Community Practice Connections™: 19th Annual International Symposium on Melanoma and Other Cutaneous Malignancies®
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6th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium: An Illustrated Tumor Board
October 18-19, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 24th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in Melanoma from Philadelphia
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Lung Cancer Tumor Board®: Enhancing Multidisciplinary Communication to Optimize Immunotherapy in Stage I-III NSCLC
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Clinical Vignettes™: The Experts Explain How They Integrate PET Imaging into Metastatic HR+ Breast Cancer Care Settings
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School of Breast Oncology® Live Video Webcast: Clinical Updates from San Antonio
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GU Tumor Board®: Real World Strategies to Inform Individualized Care in Renal Cell Carcinoma
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Dialogues With the Surgeon on Integration of Systemic Therapies in Perioperative Settings for NSCLC: Looking at EGFR, ALK, IO, and Beyond…
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Empowering Breast Cancer Patients with Non-Opioid Pain Management Innovations
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Community Practice Connections™: The 2nd Annual Hawaii Lung Cancers Conference®
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Charting the Path to Precision Diagnosis: Detection and Treatment Approaches for Oncogenic Mutations in NSCLC
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Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy Advances Into Melanoma
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Endovascular Repair of Splenic Artery Aneurysm
January 25th 2010Splenic artery aneurysm is the most common form of visceral artery aneurysm. Most present asymptomatically with incidental findings on CT or ultrasound which are diagnostic, although about 20% present with vague left upper quadrant abdominal pain. Treatment should be aimed at preserving splenic function whenever possible and endovascular treatments offer a less invasive option to patients than open surgical ligation or resection.
Haiti: 'Patients who were not Critical Three Days Ago are now in Critical Phases'
January 18th 2010Isabelle Jeanson, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières emergency communications officer, has been with the MSF teams in Port-au-Prince since January 15. Here she describes the situation as of January 17.
Will Tablets, e-Readers, and Netbooks Bridge the Gap between Smartphones and Laptops?
The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show recently concluded in Las Vegas; but aside from everything transforming into 3D, there were some other advances and introductions in the world of tech gadgets that are worth mentioning.
Online Shopping for Medical Information
I overhead two women chatting about symptoms the other day while they were surfing WebMD on their respective iPhones for diagnoses - their discussion was as public and non-chalant as if they were shopping. I mused over this for a minute, unsure if I should be disturbed or not, and then found myself wondering which URLs really are the "go-to" sites for health information. An answer was only a click away via Google search at eBizMBA.com.
Baumann's Call to Arms - Use of Twitter in Healthcare in 2009
December 9th 2009Way back in January, Phil Baumann, RN, provided an empathic answer to the question/concern that was on everyone's mind then: "Yeah Twitter seems great and all, but can you use it for anything useful in healthcare?" We followed up with him to see how 2009 went.
Security Rules Put Providers on Notice
December 4th 2009HITECH says covered entities must be able to monitor and record every time that patient data is accessed, enabling the entity to comply with the new notification requirements should unauthorized access occur. Will the new rules end up restricting the efficient exchange of data that is crucial to providing high-quality healthcare?
The Cleveland Clinic Fails to Recoup its $100 Million Investment
December 3rd 2009For those interested in health information technology, there is now an excellent, new, powerful website about this topic called the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. In their most recent report, "Can Cleveland Clinic Be a Model for Digital Medicine?" they discuss how this hospital system has failed to recoup their $100 million investment to date.