Medical students association praises Harvard medical changes to reduce conflicts of interest.

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Harvard Issues New Conflicts Policy

The Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) announced the launch of its redesigned Web site, http://www.VascularWeb.org . The most significant upgrade is the improved navigation. It features vascular health resources for the public, medical professionals, medical students, residents, and the media.

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Redesigned VascularWeb.org Launched

AAMC: Washington Highlights reports that the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee on July 15 approved (11-5) its FY 2011 spending bill that provides $176.4 billion in discretionary spending for the coming year, an increase of $12.7 billion (7.7 percent) but $1.5 billion less than President Obama’s request. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

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House HHS Subcommittee Approves FY 2001 Bill, Boosts NIH, Health Professions Funding

Graphic novels and medical comics are proving powerful communication tools for patients and medical professionalsBrian Fies started drawing his webcomic Mom’s Cancer when his mother was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. “I wanted to share my family’s story,” he told me.

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Comics put patients in the picture

The Washington Post: “It is a sign of the economic times: Nursing students at Howard University work part-time jobs and still cannot keep up with tuition. … At the start of the month, the game changed.

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HHS Grants Seek To Encourage Health Care Workforce Diversity

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) issued the following statement on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) final rules for meaningful use of health information technology: “The AAMC is pleased by the Obama administration’s commitment to promoting health information technology (HIT) through the Medicare and Medicaid incentive program for providers implementing electronic health record systems… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.

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AAMC Responds To Meaningful Use Rules For HIT

Conclusions  Regionalization was associated with improved operative mortality in Ontario but not in Quebec, undermining the volume-outcome hypothesis. The Ontario quality improvement interventions likely were of little influence since patterns in regionalization and operative mortality were similar before and after year 1999

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Assessing the Volume-Outcome Hypothesis and Region-Level Quality Improvement Interventions: Pancreas Cancer Surgery in Two Canadian Provinces

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

Elsevier, a world leader in health care, medical publishing and online solutions, and video game developer and publisher Legacy Interactive®, have announced 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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Top Doc App Offers Interactive Medical Quizzes, Real World Applications

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog: “Educational debt is a serious burden for young [and middle-aged] doctors – the median amount owed for both premedical and medical school was $145,000 for those graduating from public med schools in 2008 and a whopping $180,000 for private school grads.

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Experts Propose Solution To Burden Of Medical School Debt