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A handoff tool

Handoff Tool Alone Insufficient to Handle Nighttime Clinical Issues

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Tool used as information source by residents in 27.7 percent of nighttime clinical encounters
Patients express high satisfaction with ablative fractional skin resurfacing for photoaged skin

High Satisfaction for Ablative Fractional Skin Resurfacing

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Improvements in skin-related quality of life, patient satisfaction with skin appearance
The process of selecting and preparing for a fellowship training program

Tips Provided for Residents Applying to Fellowship Training

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Specific tips provided for those applying to pulmonary, critical care medicine fellowship training
Experts have long assumed that as a man's testosterone level declines

Declining Desire May Lead to Lower Testosterone Levels

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Lower levels linked to decreased sexual activity and desire, but not to fewer erections
Chronic kidney disease during pregnancy puts women and their babies at risk for certain types of problems

Any Kidney Disease to Be Seen As Relevant in Pregnancy

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Careful monitoring necessary, researchers say
Measures of hospitalist physician continuity do not show a consistent or significant association with the incidence of adverse events

Hospitalist Continuity Doesn’t Appear to Greatly Affect AEs

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Hospitalist physician continuity by itself does not appear to affect the incidence of adverse events
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is listening to physicians and wants to address the regulatory burdens they face

HHS Wants to Help Restore Joy of Medicine

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Agency listening to physicians and addressing concerns including EHR usability, meaningful use
Boosting older adults' colorectal cancer screening rates to 80 percent by 2018 would lead to 21

Coalition Calls for Increased Colorectal Cancer Screening

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Coalition aims for 80 percent participation by 2018
Adding a simple tetanus shot to dendritic cell immunotherapy for glioblastoma dramatically extended some patients' survival in a small new study. The study was published online March 11 in Nature.

Tetanus Shot Ups Survival With Brain Tumor Immunotherapy

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One patient with glioblastoma still alive nine years later
Patients with low-risk prostate or breast cancer may have higher or lower odds of getting an unnecessary imaging based on geography

Where You Live May Impact Use of Unnecessary Imaging

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Doctors tend to order more imaging technologies in the Northeast, researchers found