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Your NEJM Group Today: Langerhans'-Cell Histiocytosis Image, Draw-a-Child Test, Connecticut Hospitalist Opportunity (FREE)
By the Editors NEJM Group offers so many valuable resources for practicing clinicians. Here's what we chose for you … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 16, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Boy battling blood disease dies 24 hours after contracting 'infection'
Toddler Max Moment, from Lancashire, died after developing a deadly infection after months of chemotherapy to treat Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. Just weeks before his death doctors told his parents he was in remission and beating the rare disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 9, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dying mother's last wish 'to smile in photo with sons' after losing teeth to rare disease
Kelly Murray, from New Whittington in Derbyshire, was diagnosed with the rare disease langerhan cell histiocytosis, which caused the bones in her mouth to disintegrate. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The girl as delicate as a china doll: Hollie, 4, has bones as fragile as glass that can shatter with the slightest impact
Hollie Hunter from Chester-le-Street, County Durham, suffers from Langerhans' cell histiocytosis, which only affects one in 200,000 children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Toddler's amazing recovery after having 100 blood transfusions and a bone marrow transplant BEFORE her first birthday
Ava Maye Riley-Maher, now 14 months, from Manchester, was diagnosed with a rare cancer-like disease – called Langerhan's Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) - aged just five months. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Longer Treatment For Children With Langerhans Cell Hystiocytosis Improves Survival Rates
A new international study finds that prolonged, intense initial treatment in children with multi-system Langerhans cell histiocytosis (MS-LCH) can achieve survival rates as high as 84 percent - a full 15 percent improvement over the previous clinical trial in this series. The study, LCH-III, is published in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. It is the third in a series of international randomized clinical trials for LCH that spans twenty years initiated and coordinated by the Histiocyte Society, a group of more than 200 physicians and scientists worldwide... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Source Type: news

Study shows longer treatment for children with langerhans cell hystiocytosis improves survival rates
(Children's National Medical Center) A new international study finds that prolonged, intense initial treatment in children with multi-system Langerhans cell histiocytosis can achieve survival rates as high as 84 percent -- a full 15 percent improvement over the previous clinical trial in this series. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 29, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

What Causes Spontaneous Pneumothorax?
Discussion “A pneumothorax is a collection of air in the pleural space, and it can be categorized into spontaneous, traumatic or iatrogenic. Spontaneous pneumothorax can be further classified into primary with no clinical evidence of underlying lung disease or secondary due to pre-existing lung disease.” Spontaneous pneumothorax is a condition that is relatively rare in pediatrics. There is a bimodal age distribution – neonates and late adolescence. It is caused by tearing of the visceral pleural. Clinical signs include chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, tracheal deviation towards contralateral side, hypo...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - May 20, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D. Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Rheumatology: Images in Clinical Medicine
Editor: V. Dimov, M.D., Assistant Professor at University of ChicagoEndocardial Calcification in Beh çet ' s Disease. NEJM, 11/2013.A tiger man - sarcoidosis with muscle involvement. Lancet, 12/2012.Raynaud ' s syndrome may lead to acro-osteolysis. Lancet, 06/2012.Vertebra Plana due to Langerhans ' -cell histiocytosis, with Spontaneous Healing. NEJM, 05/2012.Digital Mucous Cyst. NEJM, 04/2012.Post-Traumatic Herniated Cervical Disk. NEJM, 02/2012.Tophaceous Gout. NEJM, 01/2012.Pulmonary Cement Embolism after Vertebroplasty. NEJM, 01/2012.Metastasis of Renal-Cell Carcinoma. NEJM, 10/2011.Gout Nodulosis. NEJM, 09/2...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - August 22, 2009 Category: General Medicine Tags: Images Rheumatology Source Type: news