Problems With DCIS Misdiagnosis: When Cancer Is Not Cancer
Scary and emotional media reports about misdiagnosis and overtreatment of DCIS may keep women from getting recommended screening. Is it time for DCIS to be revisited?
Medscape Medical News
Aggressive Glucose Control in Patients With Diabetes and Kidney Disease Not Associated With Improved Survival
A study suggests that in the absence of randomized controlled trials, aggressive management of HbA1c levels in patients with diabetes and end-stage kidney failure is not warranted.
Medscape Medical News
High School Incompletion Rates Highest in Teens With ADHD
Teens with ADHD are more likely to drop out of high school or delay high school graduation than their counterparts with more "serious" mental health conditions, new national data suggest.
Medscape Medical News
Two Multistate Outbreaks of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia Coli Infections Linked to Beef From a Single Slaughter Facility -- United States, 2008
How can e-coli outbreaks be prevented? This study looks at widespread illness resulting from tainted beef.
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report