Robert Wood Johnson Medical School ‘s Dr. Jeanne Ferrante to Receive Best Research Paper Award

Newswise New Brunswick, NJ Jeanne Ferrante, MD, MPH, associate professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been selected by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (SFTM) to receive the 2013 STFM Best Research Paper Award. The international competition is designed to acknowledge the best research published by an SFTM member in a peer-reviewed journal. Continue reading

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Freedom Trail marker to be unveiled Monday in Greenwood

MERIDIAN On Monday, at 10 a.m., the Mississippi Freedom Trail will unveil its latest marker at Broad Street Historical Park in Greenwood. The marker commemorates the legendary Black Power speech by Civil Rights activist Stokely Carmichael and the subsequent adoption of the term Black Power by activists and citizens alike. Continue reading

Errant Text Messages Could Be Sign of Stroke, Study Finds – Video




Errant Text Messages Could Be Sign of Stroke, Study Finds Researchers say that errant text messages could be a sign of a stroke. A recent study has found that gibberish-like text messages could potentially be a sign of a stroke. Continue reading

Diet, Diabetes, and Doubt: Is Preventive Medicine Lost in Space?

A large federal trial, looking at lifestyle–diet and exercise–for the treatment of diabetes was just terminated because, after 11 years, it wasn’t working as intended. The Look AHEAD study was stopped early because it was not reducing the rate of heart attack and stroke in the intervention group relative to the control. Continue reading

Institute of Health: Health Care System Needs Change

Gary Feuerberg Epoch Times Staff Created: September 9, 2012 Last Updated: September 9, 2012 (L to R) Gail Cassell, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Craig Jones, M.D., Vermont Blueprint for Health; Mark Smith, M.D., California HealthCare Foundation; Rita Redberg, M.D., editor, Archives of Internal Medicine; and T. Berguson Jr., M.D., Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C. The panel discussed Sept. Continue reading

Getting a final health care plan down on paper

Claire Lippert is as prepared for death as she can be. A health care proxy details who can make medical decisions for her if she becomes incapacitated. A living will makes her wishes known about such life-sustaining treatments as ventilators and feeding tubes in case she is unable to speak for herself Continue reading

NPA slams ‘needlessly scary’ Archives of Internal Medicine commentary

A commentary in the American Medical Associations journal theArchives of Internal Medicine may needlessly scare people into not taking products they use to support their health, says the Natural Products Association (NPA). On July 9, the Archives of Internal Medicine published the commentary, The Consequences of Ineffective Regulation of Dietary Supplementsby Donald Marcus, MD, from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas and Arthur Grollman, MD, from Stony Brook University in New York. Continue reading

EHRs Can Reduce Doctors' Malpractice Claims: Study

Using electronic health records could help doctors face fewer malpractice suits, a study by Harvard Medical School researchers revealed. In their study, called “The Relationship Between Electronic Health Records and Malpractice Claims,” the Harvard researchers found that 84 percent of respondents were less likely to face malpractice claims after implementing EHR platforms. Continue reading

High moral cost paid for manned space flight

WASHINGTON As the 747 carrying the retired space shuttle Discovery circled the capital last week, my mind flashed back to the sole encounter I ever had as a reporter with the space program. An editor at the old Buffalo Courier- Express assigned me to interview a fellow named Walter Dornberger, whom he described as a German space visionary who had fled from the Iron Curtain. It was the late 1950s, and so-called refugees from Germany, like Wernher von Braun, who was guiding Americas struggling manned flight program, were in vogue Continue reading