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In 1965, the NCI created an intramural program in the Division of Cancer Treatment (DCT) located at the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Hospital in Baltimore. Chemotherapy for cancer was beginning to be recognized as an integral part of modern cancer care, and the NCI was at the forefront of new approaches. The impetus for this off-campus ...
Cancer Control Month is a month-long United States observance established by 36 U.S.C. § 103, a joint resolution approved in 1938 by the Congress and amended to request the President to issue an annual proclamation. [1] In 2024, the presidential proclamation declares April the National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month. [2]
Formerly a State institution, University Hospital, in 1984 affiliated with the newly created University of Maryland Medical System. The System was established by the Maryland General Assembly in 1984 as a private, nonprofit corporation (Chapter 288, Acts of 1984). It reformed as the University of Maryland Medical System Corporation in 1996. [3]
The hospital no longer has a contract with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, which had partnered with Cape Cod Hospital’s open-heart program since its inception in 2002.
In 1898 Franklin Square opened with 20 beds, the first hospital to open in the community of West Baltimore. In 1969 the hospital moved to the eastern Baltimore County in a new 325-bed facility. The Emergency Department treats a daily average of 300 patients making it one of the busiest emergency rooms in the state of Maryland. [2]
The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is a teaching hospital with 806 beds [2] based in Baltimore, Maryland, that provides the full range of health care to people throughout Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. It gets more than 26,000 inpatient admissions and 284,000 outpatient visits each year.
It is the violation of scientific integrity: violation of the scientific method and of research ethics in science, including in the design, conduct, and reporting of research. A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries provides the following sample definitions, [1] reproduced in The COPE report 1999: [2]
The patient records of Sydenham Hospital are held at the National Library of Medicine and showcase nature and treatment of communicable diseases in the pre-antibiotic era. [3] The main hospital building was demolished in 2013 and an empty lot now sits in its place. [4] [5]