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A change to hospital policy allowing patients to use their own continuous glucose monitors instead of finger-stick blood glucose monitoring was met favorably by a majority of patients and nurses, according to study findings.

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health this year celebrated 50 years of pediatric heart transplants and more than 35 years of pediatric lung transplants, according to a press release.

The 2016 revisions to the United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric heart transplant allocation policy were not independently associated with a drop in waitlist mortality, researchers reported.

American Society for Radiation Oncology selected 48 members to receive ASTRO fellow designation.

According to published results, patients with limited ability to understand and work with numbers may struggle to correctly interpret visual displays of their patient-reported outcome measures in a clinical setting.

Published results showed female surgeons spent more time in electronic health record systems outside of scheduled hours and wrote longer documentation notes despite having fewer appointments and fewer records compared with male surgeons.

A new study funded by the NIH will assess a novel set of educational interventions around sexual harassment in the biomedical research field and how to incorporate those interventions into practice.

CHICAGO — Updated survival data from the randomized phase 3 IMpower010 continued to support adjuvant atezolizumab for patients with stage II to stage IIIA PD-L1-expressing non-small cell lung cancer, according to researchers.

DENVER — In this video from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Seth L. Sherman, MD, discusses takeaways from his presentation on innovations in knee cartilage repair.

During his educational progression from an intern at Stanford University’s ICU to that unit’s senior resident, Tyler Paul Johnson, MD, learned to take an “impenetrable forest of data” and reduce it to its simplest form.