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The American Association for Cancer Research announced the newly elected fellows of the AACR Academy.

The opioid epidemic in the United States has affected millions, exposing them to health risks that include a range of infectious diseases.

SAN ANTONIO — Ixabepilone appeared inferior to paclitaxel and nab-paclitaxel in terms of OS among patients with locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, according to long-term follow-up of a phase 3 clinical trial presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

SAN DIEGO — Quality measurements reported by rheumatology practices through the RISE registry varied widely in performance during the first quarter of 2017, which could result in fiscal consequences through the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, according to findings presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

California Gov. Jerry Brown approved legislation that will require pharmaceutical companies to give the state advanced notice of, as well as justify, dramatic drug price increases.

Travel history has a profound and essential role for the infectious disease clinician and for promoting public health priorities. The patient’s lifetime of geographic exposures, and especially those in the most recent few months, will determine what potential diagnoses are included in the differential diagnosis, whether caring for a patient with a fever, a skin lesion, a pulmonary infiltrate, focal neurologic lesion or other problem. A person’s geographic exposure profile must be combined with the clinician’s knowledge (or access to information) about clinical presentations, incubation periods, frequency of occurrence, and geographic distribution of dozens of common and a few hundred uncommon infections.

The number of tweets that came out of the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting between 2013 and 2016 increased by 600%, according to results published in the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 50 were twice as likely to receive a diagnosis of colorectal cancer than their older counterparts, according to the results of a meta-analysis published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Although most clinicians multitask while using electronic health records, which increases the risk for communication and timeliness errors, transitions to silent EHR use can have unclear ramifications, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In this guest commentary, Terence Friedlander, MD, discusses the benefits associated with the addition of abiraterone acetate to standard treatment in patients with high-risk advanced prostate cancer and the challenges facing the community , following a presentation of the STAMPEDE trial delivered at the ASCO Annual Meeting by Nicholas James, BSc, MBBS, PhD, from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom . Friedlander is an assistant clinical professor at the division of hematology/oncology at UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center .