Skilled nursing providers bracing for yet another audit process should prepare for medical record requests sooner rather than later, especially if the federal government shutdown ends this week as ...

There are more treatments today than ever before to help people with ongoing conditions manage their physical symptoms. But even with these medical advances, a diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes ...

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) involves abnormal production of blood cells in your bone marrow. MDS is not just one single disease. It is a group of diseases that affect how blood cells are made. In ...

Patients with MDS report more symptoms than physicians, indicating a communication gap in symptom assessment. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the only cure but is limited to ...

Distinguishing myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) solely on the basis of a 20% bone marrow blast cutoff ignores important patient characteristics and genetic factors that ...

Authors acknowledge that both the 2022 World Health Organization and International Consensus Classification myelodysplastic syndrome criteria sets have value, while sorting out their similarities and ...

Federal officials are considering significantly expanding how much information nursing homes must record in the Minimum Data Set, potentially adding reporting for patients outside of Medicare to ...