Breast conserving surgery with adjuvant radiation therapy is supported by mult iple clinical t rials as being a safe alternative to total mastectomy. 2 Outlined by Arm I of RTOG Protocol 1005, 1 one current standard of care for external beam radiation (EBRT) is delivery of 50 Gray (Gy) in 25 fract ions to the whole breast with a sequential 12 Gy photon or electron boost to the post-lumpectomy b...

schemic stroke is the most feared complication of atrial brillation, and many studies have investigated strategies to educe cerebral embolism. Anticoagulation with warfarin is emarkably effective in reducing the risk of ischemic stroke mong patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (1) and has ecome standard therapy. More recently, four randomized rials (2–5) have shown that a strategy of aggre...

Brownell SE, Price JV, Steinman L. A writing-intensive course improves biology undergraduates’ perception and confidence of their abilities to read scientific literature and communicate science. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 70–79, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00138.2012.— Most scientists agree that comprehension of primary scientific papers and communication of scientific concepts are two of the most import...

Most scientists agree that comprehension of primary scientific papers and communication of scientific concepts are two of the most important skills that we can teach, but few undergraduate biology courses make these explicit course goals. We designed an undergraduate neuroimmunology course that uses a writing-intensive format. Using a mixture of primary literature, writing assignments directed ...

Web-based multimedia tutorials are being developed for use in several undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer. These interactive learning modules (ILMs) are created with the Director authoring environment and can be deployed using a standard Web browser with Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in as the interface. The ILMs can be used by facult...