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That calculus is precisely what drives comparative-effectiveness research, a strategy embraced by both the House and Senate health care reform bills: figuring out which tests and treatments work best--instead of using every available treatment just because it's there--while saving money without adversely affecting health. Using magnetic...
Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by medical professionals to be brain dead. Laureys, who runs a coma study group specializing in...
Doctors, too, sometimes fail to distinguish between PVS and minimal consciousness. PVS and minimally conscious patients are at high risk of infection and can be heavily medicated, which may affect their responsiveness when tested by doctors. Popular diagnostic tools may also be to blame. In a study published in the...
Such details were bound to get lost in a heated - and highly politicized - discussion of a topic that is for most women more emotional than medical. Add to that an immediate offensive blitz by some cancer doctors who were concerned that the new guidelines would essentially limit their patients' options...
Although the relative benefits of routine breast-cancer screening have been increasingly questioned by many within the cancer community, not everyone agrees that reducing mammography is the answer. "I am appalled and horrified," says Dr. David Dershaw, director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York...