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American Medical Association provides guidance on medical tourism

The American Medical Association (AMA) has drawn up guidelines on medical tourism for patients, employers, insurers, and medical travel coordinators. The guidelines call for better public awareness about the need to coordinate care before and after operations.

Standard chemotherapy shows no benefit for certain types of colon cancer

Patients with certain types of colon cancer do not benefit from standard chemotherapy, new research shows, and the treatment may even cut their survival time.