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- 3/20/2011
Ontario widens access to cancer drugs
A high profile case of a woman who was denied coverage of Herceptin to treat her breast cancer tumour because it was “too small” seems to have inspired the Ontario government to expand patients’ access to cancer drugs. - 3/20/2011
A window into the body
- 3/20/2011
Simulation can solve big problems – safely
hospitals are unique. There is no perfect analogue to the challenges faced by healthcare organizations. When people tell me that hospitals should be run more like businesses, assuming that a hospital can operate within a purely cost-based efficiency model, such as might suit a candy factory or auto plant, I get chills. - 3/20/2011
Medical Post series tackles head on one of the most unsettling issues facing the medical profession
Would it help ease patient suffering, or be a blatant betrayal of “first do no harm” - 3/17/2011
EMR helped avoid diagnostic oversight
It is a nightmare scenario for any family physician: failing to order a test for a patient, and finding out later that something important got missed as a result. - 3/17/2011
Nonmelanoma skin cancers on rise in U.S.
The incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancers—mainly basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas—continues to rise in the U.S., researchers reported here. - 3/17/2011
Successful treatment of nail psoriasis has beneficial side-effects
Improvements in psoriasis of the hands and feet also observed when nails treated with adalimumab - 3/17/2011
Catch-up clinics improve HPV vaccination rates
Parents sometimes change their minds about having daughters immunized, Toronto researchers find - 3/17/2011
Acne gel, vaginosis tablets enter market