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Urologic Nurses Named Continence Care ChampionThe National Association For Continence (NAFC) awarded Leslie Saltzstein Wooldridge, MSN, RNCS, GNP-BC, and Francie Bernier, PhD, MSN, RNC with the Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award. |
Released: 3/16/2010 11:45 AM EDT
National Association For Continence (NAFC) |
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No Stroke of LuckStroke awareness feature story with an Irish / St. Patty's Day twist. |
Released: 3/16/2010 11:00 AM EDT
Pennsylvania Medical Society |
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Teen Girls Look to Peers to Gauge Weight GoalsTheir schoolmates’ weight determines whether teenage high school girls will try to lose pounds, new research finds, and the school environment plays a big role in the decision. |
Released: 3/16/2010 11:00 AM EDT
Health Behavior News Service |
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American University Launches Center for Latin American and Latino StudiesNew center examines U.S.-Latin American economic and diplomatic relations, healthcare, post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti, religious practices, human rights violations, and Central American migration in the Washington, D.C. region. |
Released: 3/16/2010 10:00 AM EDT
American University |
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Precision Radiation Therapy May Improve Survival Rates of Some Lung Cancer PatientsA radiation therapy that uses multiple radiation beams to target tumors precisely has been shown to eliminate the primary tumor and ultimately may improve survival rates for lung-cancer patients unable to undergo surgery. |
Embargo expired: 3/16/2010 10:00 AM EDT
Released: 3/12/2010 2:00 PM EST
UT Southwestern Medical Center |
MedicineChannels:Cancer |
Case Managers Help Low-Income Women Receive More Timely Breast Cancer DiagnosisCase management appears to be associated with more appropriate follow-up and shorter time to diagnostic resolution among low-income women who receive an abnormal result on a mammogram, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
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American Medical Association (AMA) |
MedicineChannels:Cancer |
Study Evaluates Costs and Benefits Associated With New Colon Cancer TherapiesNew chemotherapy agents appear associated with improvements in survival time for patients with metastastic colorectal cancer, but at substantial cost, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
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American Medical Association (AMA) |
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Media Reports May Paint Overly Optimistic View of CancerNewspaper and magazine reports about cancer appear more likely to discuss aggressive treatment and survival than death, treatment failure or adverse events, and almost none mention end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
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Released: 3/11/2010 8:40 PM EST
American Medical Association (AMA) |

