For anew study, medical students secretly watched hundreds of people cough or sneeze at three spots in New Zealand. What they saw wasn’t pretty, with most people failing to properly prevent an airborne explosion of infectious germs

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Study finds most of us aren’t covering our sneezes

The University of Mississippi Medical Center will partner with the renowned Mayo Clinic on a series of initiatives intended to convert laboratory discoveries into new therapies and train a new generation of medical scientists.

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UMMC, Mayo Clinic Sign Agreement To Increase Translational Research And Training

New guidelines describe how academic medical centers can manage financial relationships with commercial industry groups so patient care isn’t affected. (Source: American Medical News – PROFESSION) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.

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AAMC targets conflicts of interest in clinical care

AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G.

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AAMC Applauds Appointment Of Berwick As CMS Administrator

(Elsevier) Elsevier, a world leader in health care, medical publishing and online solutions, and video game developer and publisher Legacy Interactive, announced today the release of Top Doc, an iPhone app that features medical content and quizzes designed to let medical students, residents and junior faculty practice and improve their visual diagnosis skills. Elsevier and Legacy Interactive developed the app’s interactive format to engage and challenge users with multiple elements.

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Elsevier and Legacy Interactive partner to launch iPhone app

Jay Perman preaches the gospel of nice. Employees follow the incoming president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore from job to job because they so enjoy working with him.

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Nice is the key to excellence for new UMB president Perman

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the awarding of $96 million in grants to increase diversity in the health professions workforce and encourage nurses to choose careers as nurse educators. The grants will go to schools to give scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds with financial need, many of whom are underrepresented minorities. Funds will also provide low-interest loans to nurse faculty students – students who want to teach nursing – as incentive for nurses to select careers as nurse educators..

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HHS Awards $96 Million To Train Health Professionals

High schools across the nation have long struggled to improve student achievement and reduce dropout rates. While reforms enacted over the past three decades have proven successful in some schools, transferring those reforms to others has been challenging, and many students continue to fall behind. Education policy experts at The Florida State University will collaborate with researchers from Vanderbilt University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Education Development Center on a new $13.6 million grant to help improve high school performance in Florida and Texas..

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FSU Researchers Collaborate On $13.6 Million Grant To Bring Effective Practices To Low-Performing High Schools

The Association of American Medical Colleges has asked academic medical institutions to adopt conflict-of-interest policies for clinical care similar to those they apply to medical research, Modern Healthcare reports.

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Medical School Association Suggests Clinical Conflict-Of-Interest Policies

Leaders in biology education are celebrating the progress made since the publication of BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. The landmark report, published in 2003 by the National Research Council (NRC), called on institutions of higher education to revamp both the curricula and teaching methods in the life sciences to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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Update: Have BIO2010 Goals Been Achieved?