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Is there a such thing as 'too little benefit' in oncology?

Sensible Medicine

Recently John Mandrola, once again, stepped out of his lane. About a recent, cancer trial, which was celebrated by oncologists, he said this: In fact, John’s observation is broadly true for this revolutionary class of medications. Although these drugs— checkpoint inhibitors— are great for melanoma and cutaneous squamous cell cancer, they aren’t wonder drugs and many uses are marginal.

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ECG of the week

EMergucate

Our ECG site precedes the birth of Emergucate and has been left in it’s comfy blogspot home.

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Back to Sleep Series in Audio Format

Sensible Medicine

I learned a lot from Elizabeth Fama’s multipart series on the back-to-sleep recommendation for infants. She agreed to put the entire series into an audio file. Here you go. JMM Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Fall Break

Pediatric Education

PediatricEducation.org is taking an early fall break The next case will be published on 9/30/24. In the meantime, please take a look at the different Archives and Curriculum Maps listed at the top of the page. We appreciate your patronage, Donna D’Alessandro and Michael D’Alessandro, curators.

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Challenging Arrhythmias — MIS-C Case Report (9-16.1-2024) - NOT_YET_FINISHED

Ken Grauer, MD

== Review of ECG Rhythms — MIS-C Case Report ( 9/5 /2024 ): == What follows below are my first impressions of the ECG rhythms sent to me from the Case Report by Dimah Jarmakani et al — of a 12-year old boy with MIS-C ( M ultisystem I nflammatory S yndrome in C hildren ). For full discussion of the case — CLICK HERE — ECG Rhythm Overview: A 12-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital with severe myocardial dysfunction and chaotic rhythm with tachy- and bradycardic arrhythmias.

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