Volume 3, Number 4 (July/August 2005)

Bench to Bedside

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Neuromuscular Complications of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Mohamed Falah, MD, David Schiff, MD, and Ted M. Burns, MD

Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Neuro-Oncology Center, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville

With peer viewpoints by Andrew L. Mammen, MD, PhD, and Vinay Chaudhry, MD, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, and Michael Rubin, MD, FRCP(C), Neuromuscular Service, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York

abstract full text 355 kb

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Newer Treatments for Fungal Infections
Katherine M. Knapp, MD, and Patricia M. Flynn, MD

Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis

With a peer viewpoint by Patrick McLeroth, MD, and Bruce Polsky, MD, Chase Brexton Health Services, Baltimore, Maryland, and Division of Infectious Diseases, St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York

abstract full text 191 kb

Original Research

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Suspected Spinal Cord Compression in Cancer Patients: A Multidisciplinary Risk Assessment
Charles Lu, MD, SM, Ramon G. Gonzalez, MD, Ferenc A. Jolesz, MD, Patrick Y. Wen, MD, and James A. Talcott, MD, SM

Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Radiology and Division of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; Center for Outcomes Research, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston

abstract full text 132 kb

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The Financial Benefits of Acute Inpatient Palliative Medicine: An Inter-Institutional Comparative Analysis by All Patient Refined–Diagnosis Related Group and Case Mix Index
Mellar P. Davis, MD, FCCP, Declan Walsh, MSc, FRCP, Susan B. LeGrand, MD, FACP, Ruth L. Lagman, MD, MPH, Betty Harrison, and Lisa Rybicki, MS

The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio

abstract full text 95 kb

Commentary

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Progress for Palliative Medicine as a Subspecialty
Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, and Dale Lupu, PhD

San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care, and Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, and American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Silver Spring, Maryland

full text 59 kb

How We Do It

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Cancer Patients, Opioids, and Driving
James F. Brandman, MD

Division of Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

full text 87 kb

Observations

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Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Better Than Venlafaxine at Relieving Hot Flashes

full text 37 kb

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