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Trial by Firings: Lessons in Organizing at NewYork-Presbyterian: When NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University

Trial by Firings: Lessons in Organizing at NewYork-Presbyterian: When NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University announced plans to shutter their family medicine residency, students, residents and others quickly mobilized to save the program.
Source: aafp.org

New Clues Into Ebola as Ill Nurse Improves - NYTimes.com. An experimental antiviral compound, GS5734, was used.

New Clues Into Ebola as Ill Nurse Improves - NYTimes.com. An experimental antiviral compound, GS5734, was used.
Source: nytimes.com

Web module helps patients decide about lung cancer screening: based decision aid gives current or former smokers individualized

Web module helps patients decide about lung cancer screening: based decision aid gives current or former smokers individualized feedback on whether or not lung cancer screening is right for them, according to a small study. (http://www.shouldiscreen.com/)
Source: reuters.com

UK Ebola nurse has meningitis caused by persisting virus: doctors: A Scottish nurse who contracted and initially recovered

UK Ebola nurse has meningitis caused by persisting virus: doctors: A Scottish nurse who contracted and initially recovered from Ebola, but then suffered relapsing illness, has meningitis caused by the virus persisting in her brain, doctors treating her said on Wednesday.
Source: reuters.com

Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Revised by American Cancer Society: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH,

Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Revised by American Cancer Society: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM For women at average risk for breast cancer, annual mammography screening should be performed between the ages of 45 and 54 — and …...
Source: jwatch.org

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Total Knee Replacement — NEJM: Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Total Knee Replacement — NEJM: Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Total Knee Replacement
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Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by making encryption ubiquitous. Fixing problems with the Internet's certificate infrastructure has been at the top of that list.
Source: eff.org

'Big Data' used to identify new cancer driver genes: In a collaborative study led by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery

'Big Data' used to identify new cancer driver genes: In a collaborative study led by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), researchers have combined two publicly available 'omics' databases to create a new catalogue of 'cancer drivers'. Cancer drivers are genes that when altered,...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Institute of Health Equity - Michael Marmot: Inaugural Address as WMA President

Institute of Health Equity - Michael Marmot: Inaugural Address as WMA President
Source: blogspot.co.uk

Dabigatran-Reversal Agent Price Set: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD

Dabigatran-Reversal Agent Price Set: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Idarucizumab (Praxbind), an agent … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org

UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters - Slashdot

UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials failed to report race and ethnicity data: Researchers from Duke University

Nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials failed to report race and ethnicity data: Researchers from Duke University and Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center have found that nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov failed to report race and ethnicity data,...
Source: eurekalert.org

Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to

Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to help educate, market, and promote causes or topics to a broad audience. Researchers examined trends in social media use at pulmonary and critical care conferences and found substantial...
Source: eurekalert.org

3-D printing provides low-cost alternative in bronchoscopy simulation training: Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

3-D printing provides low-cost alternative in bronchoscopy simulation training: Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, found that 3D-printed tracheobronchial tree models compared favorably against other more standard models in training pulmonary physicians to...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Traffic deaths preventable, WHO says in call for road safety: Countries must introduce tougher laws to prevent drivers from

Traffic deaths preventable, WHO says in call for road safety: Countries must introduce tougher laws to prevent drivers from speeding or drinking and help reduce the toll of 1.25 million people killed each year in traffic accidents, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Source: reuters.com

Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today

Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today said that retail health clinics - now commonly present in drugstores and/or big box retailers - are best used as a backup alternative to a patient's primary care physician for the...
Source: medicalxpress.com

How autism apps help kids on the spectrum: Technology is helping children with autism master decidedly non-technical skills.

How autism apps help kids on the spectrum: Technology is helping children with autism master decidedly non-technical skills.
Source: medicalxpress.com

Patients using nurse practitioners are less likely to have avoidable hospital admissions: New research from The University

Patients using nurse practitioners are less likely to have avoidable hospital admissions: New research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston indicates that diabetic patients who got their primary care from nurse practitioners did not have an increase in potentially preventable hospital...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Gene therapy staves off blindness from retinitis pigmentosa in canine model: Gene therapy preserved vision in a study involving

Gene therapy staves off blindness from retinitis pigmentosa in canine model: Gene therapy preserved vision in a study involving dogs with naturally occurring, late-stage retinitis pigmentosa, according to research funded by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings...
Source: eurekalert.org

Machine Learning Generates Clickbait Headlines That Will Shock You! - Slashdot

Machine Learning Generates Clickbait Headlines That Will Shock You! - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org