Open season

The cellulitis season is open

F or some infectious diseases specialists, the equivalent of the summer blockbuster was the release of the 'Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections' (SSTI) update on June 18, 2014, by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) (1). It is timely because summer is when patients consult the most for SSTI. In the present note, we review the mos...

Engineers to Open Social Season at River Oaks Friday

KU'h'h f i r s t social f unc t i on of tins 1930-31 wen HOIK the ui iuual lCuBinoers' ; Hall will be held tonl«hI f rom 10 uiilil 2 :30 o 'clock at the River Oaks Conn' t ry club. I31d» f o r academic s t u d e n t s will he $3, arid for m e m b e r s of the KngliieeriiiK socie ty , $2 has boeii the amount an reed upon. F e a t u r e d with train modern is t ic deco ra t i ons . uccomimnied by...

Preoperative neoadjuvant therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer: open season?

Neoadjuvant therapy refers to chemotherapy or radiation administered before surgery when surgery is intended as the definitive local/regional treatment (7). The objectives of neoadjuvant therapy are to enable the resection of an otherwise unresectable neoplasm, to reduce the risk of local or of distant recurrences, and to increase the survival rate. A review of the recent literature indicates t...

Breast cancer survival and season of surgery: an ecological open cohort study

Background Vitamin D has been suggested to influence the incidence and prognosis of breast cancer, and studies have found better overall survival (OS) after diagnosis for breast cancer in summer-autumn, where the vitamin D level are expected to be highest. Objective To compare the prognostic outcome for early breast cancer patients operated at different seasons of the year. Design Open popula...

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