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Cancer costs may exceed $150 billion by 2020

According to a National Institutes of Health analysis, medical expenditures for cancer in the year 2020 are projected to reach at least $158 billion—an increase of 27% over 2010.

CDC issues antiviral guidance

The CDC offers interim recommendations on the use of antiviral medications for the current flu season.

Does your patient really need an ICD?

About 22% of patients receive implantable cardioverter-defibrillators to prevent sudden cardiac death when practice guidelines don’t recommend them, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Caring for a patient with malignant melanoma
By Richard L. Pullen, EdD, RN; Ruth O. Whitehead, MSN, RN, PNP; and Phyllis L. Pastwa, MSN, RN

Preventing never events: What frontline nurses need to know
By Leslie McKeon, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, and Brittany Cardell, MSN, CNL

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In a quandary about cauda equina syndrome?
By Deborah Ellis, MSN, RN, NP-C, and Julie Baldwin, MSN, RN-C

Nursing as a second career
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• Put a cap on community-acquired pneumonia
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