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Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors have proven to be effective cancer therapy for selected conditions, but skin toxicity is common.
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Imatinib mesylate has proven effective in the management of advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors, but its use in the adjuvant setting is yet to be established.
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Information on prognostic factors and progression rates from smoldering (ie, asymptomatic) myeloma to multiple myeloma and amyloidosis are limited.
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SSRIs are associated with a low rate of birth defects according to 2 new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine. SSRIs are often taken by women in their childbearing years, but the risk of birth defects has been unclear.
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Only three new National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) were added this year by The Joint Commission, but all of them will have a big impact on emergency nurses.
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Emergency nurses must receive more rigorous training in the use of restraint and seclusion to control violent or self-destructive behavior to comply with new standards from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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It may sound unthinkable: Emergency nurses ignoring a woman's pleas for help as she bleeds to death on the floor of their waiting room. But that is what the family of a Los Angeles woman claim happened on May 9, 2007, in the ED at Martin Luther King Jr. Harbor Hospital.
