Implementation of a Palliative Oncology Tumor Board.

Context: The integration of palliative care into standard oncologic care has been shown to improve multiple outcomes in patients with advanced cancer. Ideal methods for integrating these disciplines is an ongoing area of discussion. One method of integration is a palliative oncology tumor board (POTB).

Barriers, complications, adherence, and self-reported quality of life for people using clean intermittent catheterization.

Purpose: To examine barriers, complications, adherence, and health-related quality of life in people using clean intermittent catheterization (CIC).

Design: This pilot study used a cross-sectional, survey design.

Settings And Subjects: Forty-four community-dwelling men and women who had been using CIC for 2 or more months participated in the study.

Distal-less functions in subdividing the Drosophila thoracic limb primordium.

The thoracic limb primordium of Drosophila melanogaster is a useful experimental model in which to study how unique tissue types are specified from multipotent founder cell populations. The second thoracic segment limb primordium gives rise to three structures: the wing imaginal disc, the leg imaginal disc, and a larval mechanosensory structure called Keilin's organ. We report that most of the limb primordium arises within neurogenic ectoderm and demonstrate that the neural and imaginal components of the primordium have distinct developmental potentials.