Mammography 'does not reduce breast cancer deaths'

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women. Around 231,840 women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and around 40,290 will die from the disease. As with other cancers, early detection of breast cancer is key for...

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Anesthesiology Lessons for Rwandan Residents: Troubleshooting Intraoperative Hypoxemia from the Lounge of a Luxury Hotel

How does a country with 13 anesthesiologistprovide anesthesia care for a population of 12 million? In Rwanda, since 1997, anesthesia technicians have provided anesthesia in the operating theater after undergoing a 3-year training program, which they could enter from high school. Prior to the initiation...

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Editor's Note #23: Tweepidemiology#2..

Thought it was time to update the "Tweepidemiology" graph I first posted back in September of 2014.The Ebola virus disease epidemic of 2014 certainly drive the biggest of my Tweepidemics.Followers of my @MackayIM Twitter account (and this blog which gets promoted through it) since I started tweeting.This...

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