Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Family Medicine Volume 61, Issue 01: Guidelines in Geriatric Care

Michael E. Zenilman, MD, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and Director, National Capital Region, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, MD, presented on Surgical Concerns: Geriatric Syndromes, and William B. Continue reading

Honors Colloquium 2012 – "Damaged Care" – Video




Honors Colloquium 2012 – “Damaged Care” “Damaged Care” is a musical comedy about health care in America that focuses on issues of concern to health professionals and patients, including the erosion of the clinician-patient relationship, de-personalization of medical services, and inadequate emphasis on prevention. Continue reading

Research and Markets: Oral Medicine – A Color Handbook, 2nd Edition

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wwk4qh/oral_medicine_a) has announced the addition of the “Oral Medicine – A Color Handbook, 2nd Edition” book to their offering. This is a revised edition of a bestselling handbook. The authors have fully updated the text to include the most up to date treatment options, have added a section on head and neck imaging (CT/MRI), a series of self-test clinical cases, and 100 new photographs. Continue reading

Great Basin Corporation’s TB ID/R Molecular Diagnostic Test Detects Mycobacterium Tuberculosis with 96 Percent …

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Great Basin Corporation, a privately-held molecular diagnostics company developing sample-to-result solutions, announced today that a study published in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology demonstrates its TB ID/R assay to be 96 percent accurate in detecting rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). The assay is currently under development to provide rapid diagnosis and drug susceptibility information for TB. More than 9.8 million cases of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR TB) are reported worldwide each year, and more than half of those previously treated experience repeat infections Continue reading