Mitchel is a reporter for MDedge based in the Philadelphia area. He started with the company in 1992, when it was International Medical News Group (IMNG), and has since covered a range of medical specialties. Mitchel trained as a virologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, and then worked briefly as a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital before pivoting to journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 1980. His first reporting job was with Science Digest magazine, and from the mid-1980s to early-1990s he was a reporter with Medical World News. @mitchelzoler
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Therapy targets ICU ‘teachable moment’ of suicide-attempt survivors
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ECG patches may provide an inexpensive and noninvasive way to screen for asymptomatic atrial fibrillation in high-risk people.
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Disproportionately low U.S. research funding targets gynecologic cancers
NEW ORLEANS – National Cancer Institute research funding for gynecologic cancers during 2007-2014 fell way short of several other cancer types.
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Trastuzumab plus chemo shows efficacy for high HER2 endometrial cancer
NEW ORLEANS – Combining trastuzumab with carboplatin and paclitaxel led to substantial responses in uterine serous carcinoma with high HER2 levels...
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Residual single-site ovarian cancer surpasses multisite outcomes
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NEW ORLEANS – Two studies document opioid overprescribing after gynecologic surgery and introduce interventions to address the problem.
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A single pill containing low doses of three antihypertensive drugs surpassed conventional management for early blood pressure control.
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NEW ORLEANS – Results showed open radical hysterectomy for early cervical cancer outperformed minimally invasive surgery.
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AAD guidelines’ conflict-of-interest policies discussed in pro-con debate
Recent study results raised questions about the adequacy of the AAD’s conflict-of-interest policies for guideline authors.