MUSC Progress Notes - Fall 2015 Updates

Fall 2015 In Short

Buying Time

Unique laser treatment on a child slows her aggressive tumor.

Diagnostic Accuracy

Genomic classifier helps reduce ambiguity in lung cancer diagnosis.

The Gift of Growth

High-tech extendable implant enables femur to grow despite limb salvage surgery.

Research With a Heart

MUSC awarded grant to study health disparities in stroke recovery.

Down Syndrome Study

Down Syndrome study may reveal an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Liquid Biopsy

Liquid biopsy offers a useful diagnostic companion for targeted therapies.

Fall 2015 Features

Aortic Center

The MUSC Health Aortic Center offers cutting-edge therapies and comprehensive care for complex aortic disease.

Coming to a Screen Near You

MUSC Health offers practice- and school-based telemental health services.

The Big Deal About Big Data

MUSC Health partners with IBM Watson to offer data-driven care for kidney transplant patients.

A Class ACT

MUSC immunologists are optimizing adoptive cell transfer for antitumor treatments.

Strong Start

Health care management helps Medicaid mothers with complex needs deliver healthy babies.

Better Diabetes Care

Primary care providers can take today to improve care for patients with type 2 diabetes.

Progressnotes CME Articles

Progressnotes is pleased to offer continuing education opportunities in an effort to meet the educational needs of our audience of health care professionals and to address the health care challenges of South Carolina, particularly its high burden of chronic illness. Each issue of Progressnotes, with the exception of the Year in Review, will offer one CME-eligible article. Read additional CME-eligible articles from past issues here.

New Physicians

MUSC welcomes new physicians in Fall 2015.

New Director of Hematology

Dr. Carolyn D. Britten has been named Director of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine at MUSC.