The successful innovations of the affordable care act of 2010

Abstract The purpose of this article is to describe the innovative strategies that were used to develop the first National health insurance program in the United States.The first innovative provisions was the development a fund to expand health coverage under the State Medicaid programs to expand coverage through most Medicaid State Health Plans.Th

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Single-Port Access Endoscopic Thyroidectomy via Axillary Approach for the Benign Thyroid Tumor: New Aspects from Vietnam

Hoang-Hiep Phan,1 Thai-Hoang Nguyen,1,2 Hoang-Long Vo,3 Ngoc-Thanh Le,2,4 Ngoc-Luong Tran1 1High-Tech Medical Treatment, National Hospital of Endocrinology, Hanoi, Vietnam; 2School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam; 3Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam; 4C

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Expression profiling of blood samples from an SU5416 Phase III metastatic colorectal cancer clinical trial: a novel strategy for biomarker identification

Abstract Background Microarray-based gene expression profiling is a powerful approach for the identification of molecular biomarkers of disease, particularly in human cancers.Utility of this approach to measure responses to therapy is less well established, in part due to challenges in obtaining serial biopsies.Identification of suitable surrogate

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