According to an associated press report, the gargantuan defensive tackle William “The Refrigerator” Perry (pictured below), who helped lead the Chicago Bears to a 1985 Super Bowl victory, has been hospitalized after complications related to Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Perry remains in serious condition at Aiken Regional Medical Center, located in his boyhood home of Aiken, [...]
Bloomberg News (4/21, Chase) reports, “The number of cancer research grants funded by the US government may rise 25 percent to 30 percent in the next two years as federal cash infusions replenish the budget for medical research,” according to John Niederhuber, director of the National Cancer Institute. As a result of “a 2.9 percent [...]
This is an article I had an opportunity to write for ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory in conjunction with a recent article entitled “Integrating Digital Pathology” in this month’s issue. My thanks to the publisher and Kelly Graham, assistant editor. I will also present this topic at the upcoming CAP Futurescape meeting this June. [...]
Clinical history A 66-year-old woman presented with a solitary lung mass. Imaging characteristics were suggestive of malignancy. A wedge resection of lung was performed. Pathological Findings Gross examination of the wedge resection specimen showed a three-centimeter well-circumscribed, grey-white friable mass with central necrosis. The mass was sampled for frozen and permanent sections. Microscopic examination revealed [...]
www.tissuepathology.com A few months ago I mentioned a case involving a Colorado physician who prescribed medication over the Internet (see: Telemedicine and the Law) to a patient who later committed suicide. That physican has now been sentenced to nine months in jail. The story reports this case is “is one of the first criminal prosecutions [...]
Surgeons educate patients, medical students via Twitter Surgeons are using Twitter in the operating room to educate medical students and the public about various procedures. Estimates are that more than 100 hospitals have a Twitter account and 82 hospitals have Facebook pages. The Mayo Clinic, one of the first to embrace the new technologies to [...]
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