Patients Prefer Doctors Who Engage in Face-to-Face Visits
Patients perceive F2F physicians as more compassionate and better communicators
Colon Cancer Survival Varies by Insurance Type
Patients with Medicaid or no insurance have lower survival versus those with private coverage
PAs May Have Lower Diagnostic Accuracy for Melanoma
PAs diagnose fewer melanomas in situ, perform more skin biopsies per case of skin cancer diagnosed
Gene Therapy Found to Be Promising for β-Thalassemia
CD34+ cells transduced with BB305 vector lowered or eliminated need for red-cell transfusions
Most Smokers With Head and Neck Cancer Have Tried to Quit
Eighty-eight percent of patients had made at least one attempt to quit; mean of 6.6 lifetime attempts
Polypharmacy More Likely for Cancer Survivors
More cancer survivors prescribed five or more unique medications, including those with abuse potential
New Drug Combo Ups Survival in HER2/neu Uterine Serous Cancer
Adding intravenous trastuzumab to carboplatin-paclitaxel increased progression-free survival
Cellular Biomedical Tattoo Can ID Hypercalcemia-Linked Cancer
Hypercalcemia linked to cancer can be detected in murine model using cell-based diagnostic system
Marital Status Tied to Earlier Presentation of Melanoma
Being married also tied to likelihood of undergoing SLNB in lesions with Breslow thickness >1 mm
Calcium Channel Blockers May Up Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Women
Increased hazard ratios for pancreatic cancer among postmenopausal users of short-acting CCBs
