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Smoking Cessation Counseling in Lung Cancer Screening ProgramsMost programs offer smoking cessation counseling as part of the shared decision making visit and throughout the program. Some LCS programs also order pulmonary function studies for new patients to provide an overall picture of lung health.
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John Crowley on the 1-Year Anniversary of a Rare First AddressJohn Crowley, the President and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, sat down with Rare Disease Report at the 14th Annual WORLDSymposium in San Diego to discuss the President's mention of rare diseases.
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Diabetes-related poor outcomes in chronic heart failure: Complex interactions with sex and ageThis propensity-matched study, in which patients with and without diabetes were well balanced in all measured baseline characteristics, including traditional risk factors and comorbidities, found that diabetes was associated with increased mortality and hospitalization in ambulatory patients who had chronic, mild-to-moderate heart failure and were receiving angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. These findings also highlight the sex- and age-related variations in the effect of diabetes in these patients.
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Combining warfarin and antiplatelet therapy after coronary stentingWe conducted an observational study to compare singleantiplatelet therapy with dualantiplatelet therapy among patients requiring long-term warfarin therapy after coronary stenting. Results showed that there was no difference in mortality or myocardial infarction between the 2 treatment regimens at 6 months, with no excess in-hospital bleeding; however, larger trials are needed to determine firm recommendations.
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Way Too Much InfoThe Internet can be an amazingly useful educational resource for patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. It can also be the source of potentially dangerous misinformation.
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Opportunities and Challenges: A Time to Reflect at the End of a Busy YearIt is the final month of what has been economically a very tough year. Oncology centers and practices continue to face declining reimbursements on all service lines, and most have had either flat or lower revenues.
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TechSectors: Connectivity: Improving Physician-Patient CommunicationMore than ever before, healthcare professionals are strapped for time.
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Did Wernicke Really Postulate Only Two Language Centers?It is not much of a stretch to say that our modern accounts of the functional anatomy of language are relatively minor tweaks to Wernicke's model.
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Management of multivessel CAD in ACS patients: Do not leave for later what you can finish todayAlthough multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) is commonly encountered in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), no randomized controlled trials have evaluated the effi cacy of singlevessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) versus multivessel PCI.
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The vegetarian paradox: Low HDL cholesterol levels and low cardiovascular riskEver since the observation in the 1950s that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol was inversely correlated with coronary artery disease, there have been confounding data that have not been reconciled.
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Hospital Variation in Use of Noninvasive Cardiac ImagingExploring the benefits of routine use of noninvasive cardiac testing for patients with suspected coronary ischemia.
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Community-acquired MRSA pericarditisOnly 2 cases of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) pericarditis have been reported in the English literature. Over the last 15 years, CA-MRSA has emerged as an increasingly common pathogen that is genetically and epidemiologically different from hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA).
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First Gluten Exposure and the Likelihood of Celiac DiseaseThis was a prospective multinational birth cohort study to determine if the age of first gluten introduction was associated with increased risk for celiac disease in genetically predisposed (high risk) children.
