By RONI CARYN RABIN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/V4jeGB
Monday, June 30, 2014
Doctors’ Group Advises Against Regular Pelvic Exams
By RONI CARYN RABIN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/V4jeGB
Elderly Patients Often Overtreated for Diabetes, Study Suggests
By JUDITH GRAHAM from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1qrlHrH
Orecchiette With Fresh and Dried Beans and Tomatoes
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1m2LS4E
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Politicians’ Prescriptions for Marijuana Defy Doctors and Data
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1pFzBCO
Supplements Found to Ease Gestational Diabetes
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1nI6qh2
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Longer Heart Monitoring Backed for Stroke Patients
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1lQBCwq
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
3-D Mammography Test Appears to Improve Breast Cancer Detection Rate
By DENISE GRADY from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1mc0R87
Monday, June 23, 2014
Mediterranean Cucumber and Yogurt Salad With Red or Black Quinoa
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1pwKkQ3
Green Bean Salad With Lime Vinaigrette and Red Quinoa
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1pwKkPR
Herpes Infected ‘Since Before We Were Human’
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1pvKbwf
Vitamin D Screening Not Backed by Expert Panel
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1iqYFPi
Red Quinoa Salad With Walnuts, Asparagus and Dukkah
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1uXTZ3w
Chickpea, Quinoa and Celery Salad With Middle Eastern Flavors
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1iqdzFD
Spicy Quinoa Salad With Broccoli, Cilantro and Lime
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1qEPlcU
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Seeing Sons’ Violent Potential, but Finding Little Help or Hope
By BENEDICT CAREY from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1lIBe2Q
Friday, June 20, 2014
Issue Highlights
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pPSbM6
via Michael Chin Worcester
Lee et al In this unique edition of our “Around the Globe” series, Anne Lee and colleagues describe their experiences working in both Shenzhen in mainland China and in Hong Kong. These are two geographically adjacent cities in southern China, but the government and health care systems are strikingly different. One is rooted in the communist past but now rapidly expanding and evolving. The other is rooted in a British colonial past with strong ties to a western medical culture. This beautifully written piece boldly contrasts the two and looks forward to a future of mutual cooperation and benefit.
from International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics http://ift.tt/1oO5oFu
via Michael Chin Worcester Medical Blog
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pPSbM6
via Michael Chin Worcester
Oncology Scan—Novel Treatment Strategies for Gastrointestinal Cancers
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1np25iO
via Michael Chin Worcester
This edition of the Oncology Scan is the first with a new Gastrointestinal (GI) Editorial Team in place. We would first like to acknowledge Dr Brian Czito, who, after 2 years of fantastic service as one of the original associate editors, rotates out of the group. We also acknowledge the other outstanding members of our original group, Drs Jeffrey Meyer and Jennifer Wo, who are continuing on as associate editors. We welcome to our group Drs Stanley Liauw, Thomas Brunner, and Jason Chia-Hsien Cheng as new associate editors. For several years, they have been outstanding reviewers for this journal, and we are excited to have them join the editorial board. They each bring their own set of clinical and academic expertise in the field of GI cancers, and we look forward to working with them.
from International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics http://ift.tt/1iPMlCV
via Michael Chin Worcester Medical Blog
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1np25iO
via Michael Chin Worcester
A Tale of Two Cities in China: Hong Kong and Shenzhen
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pPS8zK
via Michael Chin Worcester
Hong Kong and Shenzhen are 2 geographically adjacent cities in southern China, but the government systems (including health care systems) are strikingly different. This is a vivid example of the “One Country—Two Systems” principle so innovatively promulgated by the late Xiaoping Deng.
from International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics http://ift.tt/1oO5jSp
via Michael Chin Worcester Medical Blog
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pPS8zK
via Michael Chin Worcester
Radiogenomics: Radiobiology Enters the Era of Big Data and Team Science
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pPS5UC
via Michael Chin Worcester
Radiogenomics is the study of the link between germ line genotypic variations and the large clinical variability observed in response to radiation therapy. The radiogenomics hypothesis is that a proportion of the variance in the phenotype of interest—radiation toxicity—is explained by genotypic variation. Thus, the aim of radiogenomics is to identify the alleles that underlie the inherited dissimilarities in phenotype. However, this hypothesis does not assume that all of the phenotypic differences are due to germ line genetic alterations, but it acknowledges that epigenetic changes (inherited and acquired) and other factors could also be important.
from International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics http://ift.tt/1oO5i0P
via Michael Chin Worcester Medical Blog
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pPS5UC
via Michael Chin Worcester
Cost-Effectiveness in Radiation Oncology: An Uncomfortable but Necessary Question
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1np24vd
via Michael Chin Worcester
The impact of expensive medical technology on increasing healthcare costs in the United States rightfully draws attention from consumers and policymakers alike. Radiation oncology—a medical specialty intricately entwined with costly technology—has recently attracted substantial scrutiny for costly treatments with disputed benefit. The high cost of technology inherent to radiation oncology naturally leads to the question of cost-effectiveness.
from International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics http://ift.tt/1iPMeaj
via Michael Chin Worcester Medical Blog
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1np24vd
via Michael Chin Worcester
Bone Marrow–Derived Stromal Cell Therapy in Cirrhosis: Clinical Evidence, Cellular Mechanisms, and Implications for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1np24eT
via Michael Chin Worcester
Current treatment options for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are often limited by the presence of underlying liver disease. In patients with liver cirrhosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy all carry a high risk of hepatic complications, ranging from ascites to fulminant liver failure. For patients receiving radiation therapy, cirrhosis dramatically reduces the already limited radiation tolerance of the liver and represents the most important clinical risk factor for the development of radiation-induced liver disease. Although improvements in conformal radiation delivery techniques have improved our ability to safely irradiate confined areas of the liver to increasingly higher doses with excellent local disease control, patients with moderate-to-severe liver cirrhosis continue to face a shortage of treatment options for HCC. In recent years, evidence has emerged supporting the use of bone marrow–derived stromal cells (BMSCs) as a promising treatment for liver cirrhosis, with several clinical studies demonstrating sustained improvement in clinical parameters of liver function after autologous BMSC infusion. Three predominant populations of BMSCs, namely hematopoietic stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and endothelial progenitor cells, seem to have therapeutic potential in liver injury and cirrhosis. Preclinical studies of BMSC transplantation have identified a range of mechanisms through which these cells mediate their therapeutic effects, including hepatocyte transdifferentiation and fusion, paracrine stimulation of hepatocyte proliferation, inhibition of activated hepatic stellate cells, enhancement of fibrolytic matrix metalloproteinase activity, and neovascularization of regenerating liver. By bolstering liver function in patients with underlying Child’s B or C cirrhosis, autologous BMSC infusion holds great promise as a therapy to improve the safety, efficacy, and utility of surgery, chemotherapy, and hepatic radiation therapy in the treatment of HCC.
from International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics http://ift.tt/1iPMd6p
via Michael Chin Worcester Medical Blog
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1np24eT
via Michael Chin Worcester
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Dr. Lorna Wing, Who Broadened Views of Autism, Dies at 85
By PAUL VITELLO from NYT Health http://ift.tt/USIGit
Up to 75 C.D.C. Scientists May Have Been Exposed to Anthrax
By SABRINA TAVERNISE from NYT Health http://ift.tt/1yppLuH
Obama to Address Nation on Iraq Crisis by PETER BAKER
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pjcKwH
via Michael Chin Worcester
By PETER BAKER
President Obama, who has been facing pressure to intervene, will make a televised statement on the situation in Iraq, where Sunni militants have captured several cities.
Published: June 20, 2014 at 4:00AM
from NYT U.S. http://ift.tt/1oKUK2x
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1pjcKwH
via Michael Chin Worcester
How Do You Take the Measure of a School Year? by JESSICA LAHEY
Michael Chin Worcester
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1lCiNP1
via Michael Chin Worcester
By JESSICA LAHEY
Was the 2013-14 school year, with its Common Core, its policy debates and its snow days, a success for education, for schools, or for students?
Published: June 19, 2014 at 4:00AM
from NYT U.S. http://ift.tt/1uFRcMf
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1lCiNP1
via Michael Chin Worcester
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)