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Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer: The Last Resort? While not as effective as other screening approaches, the new blood-based test is easy and convenient, and it may entice people who have declined to be screened.
Medscape Medical News, August 31, 2016

ESC Stem-Cell Therapy Trials Miss Mark but Keep Hope Alive The findings prompted one expert to remark, "Many, many, many people are getting tired of listening to negative trials or neutral trials with stem cells."
Heartwire from Medscape, August 28, 2016
MammaPrint Finds Breast Cancer Patients Who Can Skip Chemo The large European MINDACT study shows that the 70-gene signature test MammaPrint, used in conjunction with clinical risk, could prevent chemo use in 46% of patients.
Medscape Medical News, August 26, 2016

Cardioneurology: The Multidisciplinary Team Is the Best ApproachDr Melissa Walton-Shirley attended a session on a multidisciplinary approach to stroke, with a range of experts weighing in on the best course of action on a stroke case.
theheart.org on Medscape
Teens With POTS: How Long Does It Last?
Medscape Pediatrics
Earlier RRT for AKI? Not So Fast, Says Dr Berns
Medscape Nephrology
The Cardiology Show From ESC 2016 With Dr Valentin Fuster
theheart.org on Medscape

Reader Poll: Diagnosing a Presidential Candidate Warnings by professional groups haven't stopped some physicians from speculating about the health status of the current presidential candidates.
Medscape Medical News, September 1, 2016
CMS Reports Some Progress in Medicare Shared Savings Program
Medscape Medical News, August 30, 2016
Survey: EHRs Have Taken Over, Except for Hearts and Minds
Medscape Medical News, August 30, 2016
1-Year Grace Period for ICD-10 Coding to End Soon
Medscape Medical News, August 26, 2016

Hospitalists: 'I Don't Get No Respect' Hospitalists deserve more respect than they get, say many of these subspecialists, who feel underappreciated by their peers. There are ways that hospitalists can improve their standing.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 30, 2016
It's Ethically Wrong to Diagnose Clinton and Trump From Afar It may be interesting for doctors to diagnose presidential candidates whom they haven't actually examined, but an ethicist says that doing so is ethically despicable.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 29, 2016

Doctors and Nurses: Wash Your Hands! If our behavior changes when light, or attention, is shone on it, this is called the 'Hawthorne effect' -- and it is alive and well in our approach to handwashing, says Dr Lundberg.
Medscape Internal Medicine, August 17, 2016
Iconoclastic Breast Surgeon Laura Esserman Challenges the Status Quo From screening to treatment, breast cancer specialist Laura Esserman is on a quest to individualize patient care, and in doing so she is challenging a number of long-standing practices in cancer care.
Medscape, August 8, 2016

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

7 Easy Steps to Immune Enlightenment for Oncologists Dr David Kerr discusses a paper that explains the anticancer T-cell immunity cycle in seven steps, and how understanding it can help personalize immunotherapy in candidates for PD-1 inhibitors.
Medscape Oncology, August 26, 2016
Effects of Dark Chocolate on Oxidative Stress in NASH
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, September 2, 2016