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Evidence Based Recommendations for Supportive Care in Multiple Myeloma
Conclusion:Along with anti-myeloma chemotherapy therapy, management of complications (anemia, infections, renal insufficiency) and other associated symptoms is necessary to improve the quality of life.DisclosuresNo relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
Source: Blood - November 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Qureshi, A., Tariq, M. J., Shah, Z., Abu Zar, M., Aslam, S., Rafae, A., Malik, M. N., Kamal, A., Jose, J. A., Selene, I. I., Shafqat, M., Jamil, F., Durer, S., Durer, C., Anwer, F. Tags: 653. Myeloma: Therapy, excluding Transplantation: Poster I Source Type: research

Why Doctors should read books by Nassim Taleb
By SAURABH JHA, MD     “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method” Herman Melville, Moby Dick Asymmetry of Error During the Ebola epidemic calls to ban flights from Africa from some quarters were met by accusations of racism from other quarters. Experts claimed that Americans were at greater risk of dying from cancer than Ebola, and if they must fret they should fret more about cancer than Ebola. One expert, with a straight Gaussian face, went as far as saying that even hospitals were more dangerous than Ebola. Pop science reached an unprecedented fizz. Trader and mathem...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs

Why Doctors (And Everybody Else) Should Read Books by Nassim Taleb
By SAURABH JHA, MD “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick Asymmetry of Error During the Ebola epidemic calls to ban flights from Africa from some quarters were met by accusations of racism from other quarters. Experts claimed that Americans were at greater risk of dying from cancer than Ebola, and if they must fret they should fret more about cancer than Ebola. One expert, with a straight Gaussian face, went as far as saying that even hospitals were more dangerous than Ebola. Pop science reached an unprecedented fizz. Trader and mathematicia...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs

A Year in Review: FDA 2015 New Drug Approvals
The approval of first-of-a-kind drugs rose last year to forty-one, resulting in the highest level of newly approved U.S. drugs in nineteen years. The total number of new drugs approved last year was even higher at sixty-nine. The rising figures reflect an industry-wide desire to research and develop drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases. The newly approved drugs serve to advance medical care and the health of patients suffering from many ailments, including various forms of cancer, heart failure, and cystic fibrosis. Additionally, more than 40% of the new therapies were approved for treatment of rare or "orphan" dise...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Update on paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria: on the long way to understand the principles of the disease
Abstract The understanding of the clinical manifestations in paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) has made great progress. The main symptoms of this disease such as abdominal pain, renal failure or pulmonary hypertension and even the basis of the dramatic thrombophilia can be related to intravascular haemolysis and liberation of free haemoglobin resulting in NO depletion. In addition, there has been a recent great progress in elucidating the pathophysiology of clonal expansion within PNH bone marrow. In the majority of patients with haemolytic PNH, there are additional mutations within genes beyond PIG‐A and rather...
Source: European Journal of Haematology - March 13, 2015 Category: Hematology Authors: Jörg Schubert, Alexander Röth Tags: Review Article Source Type: research

Update on paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH): On the long way to understand the principles of the disease
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Source: European Journal of Haematology - February 21, 2015 Category: Hematology Authors: Jörg Schubert, Alexander Röth Tags: Review Article Source Type: research