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Screening for breast cancer? Menopausal status, not just age, may matterDr. Diana Buist explains the new Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium study in JAMA Oncology, which she co-wrote.
2015-10-20
A GHRI staffer’s dispatch from the 2015 Stanford Medicine X ConferenceAt a recent Silicon Valley meeting, Susan Brandzel fulfilled a high school prophecy. And she learned and shared about how patients are transforming care.
patient engagement, SIMBA, Stanford Medicine X
2015-10-12
Delicate but crucial: Advance care plans for people with early dementiaMedicare will soon pay for advance care planning discussions. A KPWHRI study is finding ways to ease the conversation for people with early Alzheimer’s.
advance care planning, Alzheimer's, dementia
2015-10-08
Advancing community health improvement with ‘population dose’Dr. Allen Cheadle describes how CCHE’s new Healthy Dose Toolkit makes it easier to design and evaluate community health initiatives.
population, Healthy Dose Toolkit
2015-10-05
For mammography, radiologists do better without computer helpBased on a new BCSC study, Dr. Diana Buist tells of technology that adds cost to breast cancer screening—without improving outcomes. Dr. Marc Mora comments.
breast cancer, screening, Computer-aided detection
2015-09-28
- Computer-aided detection does not improve breast cancer screening
CAD raises screening costs without benefit to patients and may miss cancers, large national BCSC study shows.
breast cancer, screening, Computer-aided detection
2015-09-28
A new lowdown on high blood pressure?Recent results seem to support dramatically reducing blood pressure, says Dr. Bev Green, and might finally unify hypertension guidelines.
2015-09-21
