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The Pennsylvania e-Health Initiative (PAeHI), a public-private coalition, has unveiled a set of health information technology recommendations designed to improve the quality of Pennsylvania's health care and reduce costs, while giving patients improved access to their own health care information.
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Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in elderly patients remains problematic. Recent data suggests imatinib with chemotherapy is both effective and well-tolerated in elderly patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL.
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Sweeping new changes have been made to the guidelines for prevention of endocarditis in patients undergoing dental procedures.
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In a prospective clinical trial of women with lymphedema following breast cancer treatment, two dietary interventions were compared to control diet in alleviating arm swelling.
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There is now a growing literature describing various medical issues in long term survivors of Hodgkin's disease. One of these is infertility.
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In a large series of ovarian cancer patients treated with chemotherapy after primary laparotomy, the fall in CA-125 during the first and second cycles was shown to provide significant prognostic value.
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The risk of local recurrence in young patients who underwent breast conserving therapy for early stage breast cancer was approximately 20% by 10 years.
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