The effect on survival of continuing chemotherapy to near deat

Rarely, but sometimes, a medical intervention is not just qualitatively or quantitative futile but actually physiologically futile. In the latest issue of BMC Palliative Care, Akiko M Saito and colleagues found: About one tenth (8.5%) of patients who had ever received chemotherapy were still receivi ..

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This morning the lights went out in Beaver Stadium. They’ve been on since Sunday. A beacon of light in a very sad valley

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What the Papers Don’t Say.

That The Hindu needed to release a bunch of ads proclaiming their superiority as a newspaper over The Times of India is shameful. The fact that they did so in a manner most unimaginative on too many levels makes their issue of the advertisements ghastly, distasteful and a metaphorical slap across th ..

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What the Papers Don’t Say.