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Ranking points physicians toward South Dakota
“Best states to practice medicine” named for 2018.
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MDedge Daily News: Can androgen therapy improve male frailty?
And empagliflozin could cut liver fat in diabetes.
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Oncologist-led BRCA mutation testing and counseling may reduce wait times for women with ovarian cancer
The median turnaround time from initial counseling to receiving a test result was 9.1 weeks.
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Ibrutinib plus venetoclax is active in mantle cell lymphoma
The combination appears to outperform the single agents when treating relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
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Sessile serrated colon polyps may be detectable noninvasively
Sessile serrated polyps of the colon bear a distinct DNA methylation signature that may allow early cancer detection from stool samples.
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Thousands mistakenly enrolled during state’s Medicaid expansion, feds find
California signed up an estimated 450,000 people under Medicaid expansion who may not have been eligible for coverage.
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MDedge Daily News: Why most heart failure may be preventable
And how epileptic drug use in pregnancy affects school test scores.
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Survival worse with alcohol-related HCC, compared with other types
Patients with alcohol-related hepatocellular carcinoma have worse overall survival, likely because of delays in diagnosis and later stage at...
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Nivolumab helps some with advanced NSCLC reach 5-year mark
For 129 patients with previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer, the estimated 5-year overall survival rate was 16%.
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Over one-third report financial burden from breast cancer treatment
CHICAGO – Out-of-pocket costs pose a financial burden for women weighing breast cancer surgery, but cost transparency is elusive.
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VIDEO: Pelvic radiation surpasses brachytherapy/chemo for early endometrial cancer
Pelvic radiation produced similar recurrence-free survival as vaginal brachytherapy plus chemo but with less toxicity and fewer local recurrences...