Modern blood cancer treatments require new approach for monitoring, reporting side effects
Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report […]
Patient-derived organoids, hollow spheres of cells cultured from tumors, can quickly and accurately predict how patients with pancreatic cancer respond […] Once hailed as essential to advance health care into the 21st Century, electronic health record (EHR) systems have increased rather […] Patients with low-back pain are better off seeing a physical therapist first, according to a study of 150,000 insurance claims. […] The youngest patients with the brain tumor medulloblastoma are among the most challenging because their rapidly developing brains limit treatment […] People in chronic pain are some of the most difficult patients to treat. They have complex circumstances that medicine can’t […] Becoming more physically active after a heart attack reduces the risk of death, according to research presented today at EuroPrevent […] Rising drug prices have gotten a lot of attention lately, but the actual cost of prescription medications is more than […]Patient Education and Counseling
Organoid profiling identifies treatments for pancreatic cancer: They could be used to select the treatments most likely to work in specific patients
Electronic health records fail because they are merely digital remakes of paper charts: Researchers ask, ‘What if doctors could just subscribe to news feeds about their patients?’
Early physical therapy benefits low-back pain patients: Analysis of 150k claims shows health, cost upsides
One medulloblastoma subset requires less aggressive therapy
To treat pain, you need to treat the patient: Specialists design diagnostic to help guide primary-care clinicians
Exercise after a heart attack — it could save your life, research suggests: Becoming more physically active after a myocardial infarction halves the risk of dying within 4 years, study finds
When drugs are wrong, skipped or make you sick: The cost of non-optimized medications