May 19, 2009
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Oncology and other medical news from around the web
Links from around the internet about oncology and medical issues:
- The secret to being a great teacher of medical students? It might be enthusiasm for what you teach.
- Medicare still isn't going to pay for CT colonography/virtual colonoscopies citing "insufficient evidence" to support their use. But the University of Wisconsin has a rebuttal!
- A horrifying account of a clinical trial being done on children with meningitis in Nigeria with their assent or their parents' consent and how this trial is going to be tried here in the United States.
- I know these ginger snaps from Trader Joe's helped me when I was pregnant, so I wasn't too shocked to hear that ginger helped treat chemotherapy-related nausea.
- Industrial formaldehyde exposure is linked to increased risks of leukemia and lymphoma, particularly myeloid leukemia.
- Don't feel totally appreciated by your hospital? Then you might appreciate this humorous take on National Hospital Week from a family practitioner.
- 3 Tesla MRIs detect more early breast cancers than mammograms or ultrasound.
- How electronic medical records can lead to medical fraud (watch out for auto-populated notes and resist the urge to "cut and paste.")