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Medical News Today has launched a diabetes information hub called All About Diabetes - a comprehensive information centre covering a wide range of aspects of the condition. The content consists of a mixture of texts, images and illustrations, and embedded videos, providing diseases/condition information for all audiences - from healthcare professionals to newly diagnosed patients.
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Our Kid: Medical Manchester, 1948 - 2008 22 October - 29 November 2008 The foyer at Manchester Central Library A larger than life size figure is set to reveal the dramatic changes in Manchester's medical history like never before. A new installation, with a multi-media exhibition at its heart, traces the regions past medical breakthroughs and blows the lid on what healthcare could be like in the future.
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You receive an emergency call. A female has collapsed in the street. You arrive outside the nightclub to find a young female slumped against a wall. There is no other bystander in the area and the caller has left the scene. As you approach the patient you notice she is singing in a slurred fashion.
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The NPA Interact Course for Medicines Counter Assistants (University Interact) has been adapted and is now included as a part of the undergraduate teaching for first year pharmacy students at Brighton University - a UK first. The theory learned at University will ease entry into the world of pharmacy when students apply their knowledge in term time placements and summer jobs.
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North Carolina State University researchers are launching a new project that will standardize forensic crime scene investigation training throughout the state, decrease the cost of providing the training to law enforcement personnel and forensic scientists, and hopefully contribute to the establishment of nationwide standards for death investigations. A team of NC State scientists, led by Dr. Ann H. Ross, has received a grant from the U.S.
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Student government leaders from around the country this week pledged to start a grassroots healthcare reform movement at their colleges and universities. They made the pledge during a three-day conference in Nashville sponsored by SHOUTAmerica, a new non-partisan, non-profit group dedicated to engaging young people in the national dialogue on healthcare reform.
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UNESCO plans to launch a network of HIV-positive teachers in Zimbabwe to help the group access no-cost antiretroviral drugs and other services, Zimbabwe's The Herald reports.
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The majority of physicians practicing in Canada have gone through a similar education and examination process. Following an undergraduate experience outside of medicine (and for some, advanced degrees), completion of a four-year undergraduate medical education at an accredited Canadian faculty of medicine leads to the degree of Medical Doctor, the MD.
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Google is an indispensable tool for any researcher, according to Bruce Murphy of the Université de Montréal Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. You can find anything on Google - even stem cells. "I recently ordered some," says Murphy, director of the UdeM's Animal Reproduction Research Centre, one North America's largest hubs of its kind, which is based in Saint-Hyacinthe. "Not a day goes by during which I don't use Google.
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From January 2009 candidates for The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Fellowship examination will be able to undertake the exam in a sequential way over time. "We recognise the changing needs of GPs who may need to work part time due to family circumstances and work life balance issues, the learning needs of registrars and the challenges for international medical graduates in gaining the experience required to work in Australia.
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The BMJ Group (British Medical Journal) today reveals the 10 categories of the first inaugural BMJ Group Awards which will recognise and celebrate excellence in health care across the globe. The BMJ Group Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday 2 April 2009 in London, presented by broadcaster and comedienne Sandi Toksvig.
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More than 17,500 businesses in the health and social care sector have benefitted from the Government's flagship training service - Train to Gain - helping it to reach a milestone number of employers in time to mark its second year anniversary skilling-up the nation.
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As medicine undergoes rapid transformation, North American leaders in continuing medical education (CME) have joined together to transform CME itself. Their goal is to see that physicians have the best professional development resources available throughout their careers to translate new research into better patient care. The Mayo Clinic Consensus Conference on Continuing Medical Education (CME) held on Sept.
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On 16-17 October 2008, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) will convene a special symposium and workshop for educators at the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Memphis, TN.
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The homecare sector's professional association, UKHCA, has applauded government's decision to give national recognition to the training and development needs of the social care workforce by establishing a new national Skills Academy for social care. The Academy will work with employers across the social care sector to establish programmes for learning, leadership, training accreditation, career development and recruitment.
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According to an article published in the second October 2008 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, doctors in intensive care units (ICUs) often withdraw life support systems over a prolonged period of time as they attempt to balance the difficult needs of their patients and the families of patients.
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Medical educators, health care executives and policy-makers from across Georgia and the nation will gather in Atlanta Oct. 15-16 for a leadership summit designed to develop a statewide strategy for expanding graduate medical education. The Graduate Medical Education Leadership Summit, sponsored by the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, will be held at the Atlanta Airport Marriot Hotel.
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The American Physiological Society has established the Hurricane Ike Relief Fund to provide unrestricted grants of up to $2,000 to support physiology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who suffered losses as a result of Hurricane Ike. The powerful storm hit the Texas coast on Sept. 13 and also affected other areas of the country. The grants are targeted to students and fellows who are either APS members or working in the laboratories of APS members.
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Nursing faculty at UNLV and Nevada State College (NSC) are collaborating to improve nurse retention and patient care in Nevada by expanding opportunities for registered nurses (RN) to earn a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) through an online degree program. This is the first coordinated effort of its kind in Nevada and is being funded by a grant from the Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA).
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Pediatricians have a wide range of approaches towards disclosing medical errors to patients and their families, and they may be less likely to disclose this information if the errors are less obvious to parents, according to an article released on October 6, 2008 in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Medical errors occur in all fields of medicine.
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The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada commends The Honourable Stephen Goudge and the Commission of the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario for a comprehensive and thoughtful report. Among its many recommendations is the identified need for high standards in the medical education of forensic pathologists.
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Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, particularly over issues related to their competency. A new study published in the September 2008 issue of
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Reference materials are an important requisite for assuring reliable laboratory measurements and appropriate patient care. To ensure that a reference material is suitable for its intended purpose, its commutability characteristics need to be assessed in a defined manner considering all relevant aspects. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has recently published a new document,
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And the big day finally came! After several years of intense preparation under the HERMES (Harmonised Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists) project, last Saturday the European Respiratory Society (ERS) held the inaugural examination for the European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine. It took place in Berlin, in parallel with the Annual Congress. This year's candidates will be the first ever to receive the new qualification.
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Repairing breaks in the two strands of the DNA double helix is critical for avoiding cancer. In humans and other organisms, a molecular machine called the MRN complex is responsible for finding and signaling double-strand breaks (DSBs), then launching the error-free method of DNA repair called homologous recombination. In an article in the online October 3, 2008 issue of the journal Cell, John Tainer of the Life Sciences Division at the U.S.
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