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[This Week in Medicine] January 18–24, 2014

50 years after US President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, a report by the Center for American Progress assesses American beliefs about the current state of poverty in the USA, their retrospective...

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[Editorial] Progress in tackling malaria

Since we last featured malaria in an Editorial nearly 4 years ago, encouraging progress has been made in limiting the burden of illness and death caused by the disease. According to the World Malaria...

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[Comment] Immunotherapy in non-small-cell lung cancer: a good start?

The quest to develop improved treatments for patients with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer has been generally unfulfilling, despite sizable advances in radiotherapy technology and...

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[Editorial] The beginning of the end of consistency in AED prescribing?

The ongoing debate over the safety of switching between oral antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) from different manufacturers has recently been rekindled by new guidelines issued by the UK Medicines and...

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[Editorial] Patient safety must be a priority in all aspects of care

In December, 2013, the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) released a position statement regarding intracorporeal morcellation, a technique by which tissues excised during minimally invasive surgery...

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[Comment] Angiogenesis inhibition and lung-cancer therapy

The initial report by Judah Folkman describing the tumour vasculature as a target for cancer therapy generated much interest in the use of angiogenesis inhibition for the treatment of non-small-cell...

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[This Week in Medicine] February 8–14, 2014

NICE guidance on how to improve the physical and mental health of NHS staff is inconsistently implemented, according to a Royal College of Physicians’ audit. Good staff health and morale is associated...

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[Comment] Adjuvant chemotherapy for local relapse breast cancer

Patients with isolated locoregional recurrences of breast cancer have a high risk of distant metastasis and death from cancer. The main objective in this clinical setting is curative treatment, which...

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[This Week in Medicine] February 15–21, 2014

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 43% decrease in child passenger deaths in the USA between 2002 and 2011, confirming car seats and safety belts as the best ways to prevent...

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[Comment] Repeat palliative radiotherapy for painful bone metastases

Depending on size, location, infiltration of extra-osseous tissue, and structural integrity changes, patients with bone metastases from solid tumours frequently have local or eradiating pain, which...

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