New Study Links Socioeconomic Factors and Fashion Trends Over the Past Century to Increased Incidence of Melanoma
A century's worth of cultural and historical forces have contributed to the rise in the incidence of melanoma, including changes in fashion and clothing design.
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Hospital uses ‘lean’ manufacturing techniques to speed stroke care
A hospital stroke team used auto industry "lean" manufacturing principles to accelerate treatment times, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal <em>Stroke. </em>In a prospective observational study, the average time between patients arriving at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., and receiving the clot-busting agent tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), decreased 21 minutes using process improvement techniques adapted from auto manufacturing.
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Panel Concerned About Long-Term Effectiveness of Treating Chronic Pain
"Chronic pain spans a multitude of conditions, presents in different ways, and requires an individualized, multifaceted approach."-Dr. David B. Reuben Panel chair and professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles
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