By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS At age 48, Dante Carbajal Ocampo is not what you might expect in an oncological gynecologist. Unlike the classic stereotype of a jaded, moody, disinterested, keep-your-emotional-distance oncologist (a recent Medscape report said that at least 78 percent of oncologists experience serious professional burnout and depression within their first five years of practice, and 10 percent said that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Britain’s highly acclaimed medical journal The Lancet on Monday, July 26, put the blame for Mexico’s ongoing shortage of crucial pediatric oncological medications squarely on the shoulders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). More than a year before the covid-19 pandemic arrived in Mexico in March 2020, the magazine wrote, the country was
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It is the most common form of acute leukemia in adults, and one of the most aggressive and lethal cancers known to man. Originating in the bone marrow, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a condition in which the body produces too many myeloid white blood cells that flood the bloodstream and block the production and function of
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