Training after protocol approval

AOA Approval of ACGME Internship and Residency Training.

Since the 1970s, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) has provided a means for osteopathic physicians to apply for approval of their postdoctoral training in programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Osteopathic physicians who trained in ACGME programs need this approval to meet AOA licensure and board certification requirements. The AOA appr...

Is Approval Voting Optimal Given Approval Votes?

Some crowdsourcing platforms ask workers to express their opinions by approving a set of k good alternatives. It seems that the only reasonable way to aggregate these k-approval votes is the approval voting rule, which simply counts the number of times each alternative was approved. We challenge this assertion by proposing a probabilistic framework of noisy voting, and asking whether approval v...

Dangers of rosuvastatin identified before and after FDA approval.

Approval after phase I: ceritinib runs the three-minute mile.

Correspondence: Bruce A. Chabner, M.D., 10 North Grove Street, LRH 214, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. Telephone: 617-724-3200; E-Mail: [email protected] ©AlphaMed Press 1083-7159/2014/$20.00/0 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2014-0143 Thirteen years ago, I wrote an editorial applauding discovery, development, and marketing approval of imatinib for chronic myelogenous leukemia (...

Daptomycin: a review 4 years after first approval.

Daptomycin is the first approved member of a new class of antibiotics, namely the cyclic lipopeptides. Daptomycin has rapid bactericidal activity against Gram-positive pathogens. It acts by penetrating into the bacterial cell wall with consecutive formation of pores, loss of electrical membrane potential and inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis. As the mode of action of daptomycin is 'concentr...