These are the most important oncology stories you need to know about today.
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Experts call for free parking at cancer centers for patients, because these parking fees can mount up and become a real burden those undergoing frequent treatment sessions.
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Clinicians and their chronic myeloid leukaemia patients looking to switch to generic imatinib will see no change in outcomes or safety, while markedly reducing healthcare costs, say UK researchers.
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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis has been understudied for years, and its increasing prevalence now has researchers working overtime to make much-needed progress in its treatment.
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These are the most important oncology stories you need to know about today.
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Use of some cancer screening and monitoring tests came to 'a near standstill' in early April in the US, a new report indicates.
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After a week seeing cancer patients with COVID-19 as the inpatient consult attending, Don Dizon finds himself more emotionally exhausted than he's ever been before.
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Striking differences in how men and women are affected by COVID-19 might be explained by deleterious effects of androgens in males, say Italian researchers.
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Dr Kathy Miller discusses beneficial changes that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the future of medicine.
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Dr David Kerr on when it might be the right decision to tell patients that you believe they're pursuing the wrong treatment.
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These are the most important oncology stories you need to know about today.
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The authors document the earnings in the sixth calendar year after youths’ vocational rehabilitation (VR) applications and Social Security Administration (SSA) benefit outcomes during the six years after their VR applications.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced today that Mathematica is the grand prizewinner of the Agency’s Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge for its Data Visualization Tool.

Mathematica has released positive evaluation findings from Year 2 of the Million Hearts® model, just in time for American Heart Month this February.

Clear communication with patients upon emergency department (ED) discharge is important for patient safety during the transition to outpatient care.

Mathematica study will evaluate the effectiveness of the Transitional Care Model (TCM) in reducing rehospitalizations and will promote widespread use of the program in a number of health systems.

Mathematica’s study helps Louisiana measure its public high schools’ contribution to student outcomes such as high school graduation, college enrollment, and eventual earnings.

A comparison of stage at cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment rates between people with HIV (PWH) and the general US population is needed to identify any disparities by HIV status.

This brief presents an updated profile of work-oriented beneficiaries and compares them to other SSI and DI beneficiaries who are not interested in work.

This issue brief reports on how three states coordinate the establishment and enforcement of parenting time with child support establishment activities.

This study examines when nonexperiments might substitute for experiments that are done in real-world settings in order to learn what works to affect some socially valued outcome.

This toolkit aims to help states develop a plan for Title IV-E prevention services, and to assist states in planning an array of services to help address substance use, mental health, and parenting issues (“prevention services”).

Mathematica was contracted by Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) to create an updated inventory of state- and territory-level Medicaid policies, programs, or initiatives that are designed to improve the access to, quality of, and outcomes of maternity care services.

This case study discusses two federal grant initiatives and the evaluation technical assistance (ETA) provided to the grantees.

This article uses an evaluation of New Heights, a school-based program for pregnant and parenting teens in the District of Columbia Public Schools, to illustrate how maternal and child health programs can obtain rigorous evaluations at reasonable cost using extant administrative data.

This brief summarizes findings from a random assignment impact study of Wise Guys, a long-standing, widely implemented curriculum designed to help adolescent males make responsible decisions about their sexual behavior.

In the summer of 2017, the National Quality Forum (NQF) announced the formation of a Scientific Methods Panel (hereafter referred to as “the Panel”) as part of a redesign of its endorsement process.

Poor nutrition and hand hygiene are risk factors for acute respiratory infections (ARIs). Safe drinking water and sanitation can reduce exposure to pathogens and encourage healthy immune responses, reducing the risk of ARIs.

Mathematica welcomes Diane Rittenhouse as senior fellow in the Health Unit. Rittenhouse, a family physician, is a nationally known expert at the intersection of social policy and clinical quality.

Consolidation among physician practices and between hospitals and physician practices has accelerated in the past decade, resulting in higher prices in commercial markets.

This study describes a novel method to reweight a comparison group used for causal inference, so the group is similar to a treatment group on observable characteristics yet avoids highly variable weights that would limit statistical power.