Second Primary Malignancies and Myeloma Therapy: Fad or Fact?

Second Primary Malignancies and Myeloma Therapy: Fad or Fact?

The risk adaptive therapy approach within low risk patients may involve limiting post-transplant IMiD exposure in patients who have a higher potential for SPM development. It may well be that we are looking at the tip of the iceberg in the year 2012 and SPMs may emerge as an important long-term sequela with further follow-up.

Hypoglycemia, Fact or Fad

With unwarranted enthusiasm, the popular press has embraced hypoglycemia as an explanation for a host of physical ailments. Although this has permitted purveyors of numerous "treatments" to do a brisk business, very little helpful and accurate information has been communicated about hypoglycemia. Lynn Bennion, a Stanford-based clinician, has written a book that provides the general public acces...

Sensory integration: fact or fad.

Sensory integration more and more is becoming the panacea for many occupational therapists who treat a variety of disabilities and dysfunctions. The popularity of this treatment method is growing rapidly and was emphasized by Hightower-Vandamm in 1980. She noted that, in the early '70s, 90 percent of her students wanted to work in physical dysfunction and that presently 90 percent wish to work ...

Conformity in nonhuman primates: fad or fact?

Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of Kinesio tape: Fact or fad?

OBJECTIVES Kinesio tape (KT) is a commonly used intervention in sports. It claims to be able to alter the muscle activity, in terms of both facilitation and inhibition, by certain application methods. This study compared the neuromuscular activity of the wrist extensor muscles and maximal grip strength with facilitatory, inhibitory KT, and tapeless condition in healthy adults who were ignorant ...