Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe gathering conference health news and lives in West Palm Beach.
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Blood markers can detect early pancreatic cancer
A test in development is recommended for those at high risk and those newly diagnosed with diabetes.
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Midostaurin improves survival in new AML
Adding the multitargeted kinase inhibitor midostaurin to standard chemotherapy led to significantly longer overall and event-free survival...
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Gilteritinib shows safety, efficacy in relapsed/refractory AML
Gilteritinib is attractive because it has in vitro activity against FLT3 internal tandem duplication mutations and tyrosine kinase domain...
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Two SNPs linked to survival in R-CHOP–treated DLBCL
Use of a patient’s genetics rather than a tumor’s genetic makeup could change lymphoma treatment.
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Liposomes boost bortezomib efficacy
Liposomes might be able to boost efficacy and reduce side effects of bortezomib.
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12 things pharmacists want hospitalists to know
From better communications to extra vigilance to high-risk decisions, veteran pharmacists outline areas for improvement.
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Presenters hand out tips for better handoffs
LAS VEGAS – I-PASS interventions for handoffs can reduce preventable adverse events by 30%.
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Stump the Professor event entertains, educates
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, joked that participating in a “Stump the Professor”...
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Foresight and hard work – not inevitability – shaped HM, CEO says
“The future fits what hospital medicine is all about: We’re about value, we’re about creating the new future,” SHM CEO Dr. Laurence Wellikson said...
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Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections
Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New...
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Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects
Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston,...
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Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow
Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.
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Diabetes specialist to offer disease management tips
An endocrinologist will walk the audience through four major points on caring for diabetes patients in a talk to be given Thursday at HM17.
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Culture change necessary to weed out health care overuse
Chris Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical...
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Experts to review ‘hot topics’ in pediatric hospital medicine research
Two pediatric hospitalists reviewed every issue from 18 relevant journals over the last year and chose studies that involve important, evolving...