By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff Doctors who attended medical schools that limited gifts to students from pharmaceutical companies — sponsored lunches, for example — may be less susceptible to drug marketing, a study published last week in the BMJ found. Researchers from Yale University looked at the prescribing practices of doctors who had attended one of 14 schools that were early adopters of such policies. Continue reading
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Poff, Tycoles like satellite med school idea
A stand-alone medical school for Brandon University may not be realistic, but the findings of the Brandon Medical Education Study to increase training of doctors in rural environments is encouraging, said Ross Tycoles, chairman of the Assiniboine Municipal Health Committee. “Honestly, I think all along (a satellite medical school in Brandon) was their plan,” Tycoles said Continue reading
American beaches laden with sewage, bacteria: study
28-Jun-12, 6:07 AM | Agence France-Presse InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 WASHINGTON – US beaches can be dirty places, making about 3.5 million people sick each year from sewage in the water, said an annual study Wednesday that rates American beaches by how dirty they are. The Natural Resources Defense Council report included 3,000 beaches nationwide and listed 15 “repeat offenders” that have turned up again and again in the pollution rankings. Continue reading
DCC gets teachers friendly with nanotechnology
Encouraging students to study nanotechnology can be intimidating. Continue reading
Solomon Islands 'blond' gene found
Dark-skinned, blond-haired indigenous people on the Solomon Islands have a gene that is unique to the South Pacific nation and was not picked up from interbreeding with Europeans, scientists say. Outsiders have long presumed the unusually fair-haired Melanesians were a result of long-ago liaisons with European traders, while locals often attributed their golden locks to a diet rich in fish or the constant exposure to the Sun. Continue reading