The New ACCME Standards: A Pendulum Swung Too Far?
In this edition, Judith Kleinerman, MD, talks about the implications of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s (ACCME’s) new Standards for Integrity and...
Marrow or Peripheral Blood for Allogeneic Transplant: Are We Ignoring the Data?
Here, Jennifer Saultz, DO, and Eneida Nemecek, MD, MBA, reflect on the debate over the optimal graft source for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, in...
Singing the Blues for Blue Top Tubes
Here, Mark A. Crowther, MD, and Steven L. Allen, MD, discuss the recent shortages of blue top tubes and how hematologists can “choose wisely”...
Masking, Vaccination, and Research Needed to Protect Our Most Vulnerable Against COVID-19
This article is republished from a President’s Column that originally appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of The Hematologist.
In mid-May, the Centers for Disease...
Guest Commentary: Rise and Rise Again…
Here, Amrita Krishnan, MD, Nina Shah, MD, and Saad Usmani, MD, reflect on the significance of the swearing in of Kamala Harris, the daughter...
The Future of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
An Update From the 3rd NIH Chronic GVHD Consensus Conference
In this edition, Steven Pavletic, MD, and Kirk Schultz, MD, report on the progress and...
A Relevant Retirement
The Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell in New York recently held a 90th birthday celebration for Richard T. Silver, MD, which included Medical...
In Oral Maintenance Therapy in AML, Do All Roads Lead to the Epigenome?
Maintenance therapy to reduce relapse of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and prolong overall survival (OS) has been explored since the 1960s.1 Chemotherapeutic and immunologic...
The Subspecialist Will Televisit You Now
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care providers, payers, and patients had all gradually warmed up to the opportunities for telemedicine afforded by high-speed internet...
The Costs of Pursuing Cancer Cures
In this edition, Jori May, MD, reviews The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, in which hematologist-oncologist Azra...
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September 2021 Volume 7 Issue 11
This issue discusses fertility preservation for young patients with cancer, reviews treatment options for primary immune thrombocytopenia, and more.