Society Issues First Risk-Based Mammogram Guidelines

New United States mammogram guidelines ignite debate.

Consensus Guidelines on Practical Issues of Immunotherapy-Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI)

The Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI) guidelines for the use of allergen immunotherapy were first published in 1995; since then, updated guidelines have been published.1–3 The CSACI has reviewed this topic at its annual meetings and in its official publication.4 We hope that this “Consensus Guidelines on Practical Issues of Immunotherapy” will promote excellence in the...

Boston's First Medical Society *

The cobblestones of Hanover and Brattle Streets and of Cornhill, Boston, had an attraction at the turn of the last century for the suburban lad, who, wending his way through those historic paths of the former center of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, often sought the street to avoid the uneven sidewalks with their helter-skelter curbings. Even the round cobblestones between the rails of the troll...

WILDERNESS MEDICAL SOCIETY PRACTICE GUIDELINES Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia

From the Military & Emergency Medicine Department, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (Dr Bennett); Oakland University, Rochester, MI (Dr Hew-Butler); the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Northern California Health Care System, and University of California Davis Medical Center, ...

Completed Lbp Based Texture Analysis in Mammogram

Breast cancer is a frequent cancer diseases and it is the leading cause of cancer death among women in most of the occidental countries. Mammography is one among the key tool to identify the location and size of tumor in the breast. Texture analysis plays an important role in detecting the disease patterns in mammogram and to identify the masses as normal or abnormal. The local binary pattern d...