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Use Whiteboards to Enhance Patient-Provider Communication
Hospitals are confusing places—this basic tool can help simplify things
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New SHM Members – November 2016
New Society of Hospital Medicine members for the month of November
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Preventive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Researchers identify pretrauma predictors and preventive coping skills for participants at risk for developing PTSD.
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Improving cognitive function in cancer survivors
chemotherapy Photo by Rhoda Baer A new study suggests a computer program known as InsightTM may help improve cognitive function and overall well-...
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Team maps genomic landscape of CBF-AML
whole-genome sequencing Photo courtesy of the US Food and Drug Administration Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing has provided new insight...
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Continuous Rd should be standard of care, group says
Photo courtesy of Celgene Updated trial results support continuous treatment with lenalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone (Rd) as a standard of...
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Results support continued study of CMV vaccine
A vaccine designed to control cytomegalovirus (CMV) has produced favorable results in a phase 1 trial of healthy volunteers. Investigators said...
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A girl repeatedly jabs her finger up her nose: Compulsion or self-injury?
A, age 6, repeatedly rams her finger into her nose, causing profuse bleeding. She has been in psychotherapy for a year, but the behavior is...
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Healthy relatives of IBD patients have intestinal dysbiosis
Healthy first-degree relatives of children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease had intestinal dysbiosis and an altered intestinal...
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Interferon-free HCV treatment can lead to herpesvirus reactivation, experts say
Interferon-free direct-acting antiviral regimens for chronic hepatitis C virus infection can cause reactivation of herpesvirus, according to the...