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Audio-Digest Foundation announces the release of Neurology Volume 04, Issue 17: Update on Chronic Pain.

The goals of this program are to improve the management of chronic nonmalignant pain and to improve the management of fibromyalgia. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Employ a multi-modal treatment plan to manage the patient with chronic pain. 2. Prescribe appropriate pharmacotherapy for the patient with chronic pain. 3. Follow the harm and benefit paradigm when using opioids in the treatment of chronic pain. 4. Summarize the recent research findings that suggest fibromyalgia is a disorder of sensory processing. 5. Effectively treat a patient diagnosed with fibromyalgia

The original programs were presented by Richard C. Wender, MD, Alumni Professor and Chair of Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Benjamin Wang, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Jacksonville, FL.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

Recent researchers have hailed from Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, UCSF, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of California, San Diego, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and many others.

Out of these cutting-edge programs, Audio-Digest then chooses the most clinically relevant, edits them for clarity, and publishes them either every week or every two weeks.

In addition, Audio-Digest publishes subscription series in conjunction with leading medical societies: DiabetesInsight with The American Diabetes Association, ACCEL with The American College of Cardiology, Continuum Audio with The American Academy of Neurology, and Journal Watch Audio General Medicine with Massachusetts Medical Society.

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Amanda Dukinfield, of Round Hill and a junior at Woodgrove High School, has been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, DC, Feb. 14-16,.

The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. The purpose of this event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country who aspire to be physicians or medical scientists, to stay true to their dream and, after the event, to provide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal.

Dr. Connie Mariano, the medical director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists nominated Dukinfield to represent Woodgrove High School based on her academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.

During the three-day Congress, Dukinfield will join students from across the country and hear Nobel Laureates and National Medal of Science Winners talk about leading medical research; be given advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what is to expect in medical school; witness stories told by patients who are living medical miracles; be inspired by fellow teen medical science prodigies; and learn about cutting-edge advances and the future in medicine and medical technology.

The Academy offers free services and programs to students who want to be physicians or go into medical science. Some of the services and programs the Academy plans to launch in 2013 and 2014 are online social networks through which future doctors and medical scientists can communicate; opportunities for students to be guided and mentored by physicians and medical students; and communications for parents and students on college acceptance and finances, skills acquisition, internships, and career guidance. Based in Washington, D.C., the Academy was chartered as a nonpartisan, taxpaying institution to help address this crisis by working to identify, encourage and mentor students who wish to devote their lives to the service of humanity as physicians, medical scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.

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Cambridge Health Alliance has named Assaad Sayah MD as its chief medical officer. Dr. Sayah, CHAs senior vice president of primary and emergency care, will succeed Gerald Steinberg MD, who announced his retirement last month.

Since joining CHA in 2006 as the chief of emergency medicine, Sayah has led advancements in the emergency departments at all three of CHAs hospital campuses -- Cambridge, Somerville and Whidden -- resulting in improved efficiency, quality, volume and patient satisfaction. He spearheaded many initiatives, including rapid assessment protocols, the implementation of an electronic patient tracking system and the addition of patient partners, that have contributed to better patient flow and established CHAs emergency department as a national model that has been showcased in venues across the country. He has shown the same commitment to innovation and operational enhancement during his tenure as CHAs senior vice president of primary and emergency care, a role he assumed earlier this year.

As CHAs chief medical officer, Sayah, who has served as CHAs medical staff president and chairman of its chiefs council, will provide physician leadership, ensure high quality care for patients, and be a committed advocate for CHAs physicians and all associates.

He will also oversee CHAs academic mission, ensuring its training programs attract top candidates and instill a commitment to serve vulnerable populations. He serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has published on a variety of subjects including emergency department operation, continuous quality improvement, advanced directives, and access to care in Massachusetts following health reform.

Prior to going to CHA, Sayah held several leadership roles in area hospitals, including director of EMS for Brigham and Women's Hospital, associate chief for the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Elizabeths Medical Center, and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the Presidents Award and Vanguard Award from the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians and the EMS Physician of the Year Award from the Metropolitan Boston EMS Council. He earned his medical degree at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed his residency in emergency medicine at William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan.

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A psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard Medical School said today he didn't know that students were drinking at a high school graduation party he hosted in New Hampshire.

J. Wesley Boyd, 46, of Needham and his wife, Theonia, 49, a pathologist who also teaches at the medical school, were both arrested at the party Sunday night after police alleged that underage drinking was going on at the Weare, N.H., event.

Boyd said today he and his wife had told the students from the St. Paul's School in Concord who were graduating with his daughter that there would be no drugs or alcohol allowed at the party. He also said he and his wife and another couple had monitored the party without seeing any alcohol.

He said several of the students had since apologized, telling him that they had been hiding the drinking from him,

"My wife and I have gone back over each decision along the way that we made and there's nothing necessarily we would have done differently," he said.

He said if there was one error he and his wife made, it would be the size of the party, which was attended by dozens of people at a large house, with fields in both front and back, that Boyd had borrowed from a friend.

"I would keep it smaller or have five times as many chaperones and in a confined place," he said.

Weare Police didn't immediately return a message seeking comment.

About 70 teenagers were taken into protective custody. Boyd and his wife face charges of facilitating an underage drinking party, the Associated Press reported.

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A medical school in Saudi Arabia will pay the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine $5.5 million for its expertise to create a medical program.

Through a three-year agreement, Wright State will help the Unaizah College of Medicine of Qassim University create Saudi Arabias first Doctor of Medicine program. It will be modeled after the Wright State program.

We are proud that we can offer a new school in a different culture our proven program for educating the next generation of physicians, said Dr. Marjorie Bowman, dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine.

Wright State faculty members will serve as mentors to help establish the new program, said Dr. Dean Parmelee, associate dean for academic affairs for Boonshoft.

Until now, medical schools in Saudi Arabia have offered only a bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery, or MBBS degree, according to Wright State. Medical programs in the country are taught in English, according to WSU.

The M.D. program will begin in September 2014. At that time, 100 students from a pre-health professionals program will enter a one-year program that mirrors the experience of Boonshoft students, according to WSU.

Sixty of those students will then be selected to continue on with the program, according to WSU.

Parmelee said Saudi Arabia is focused on medical education because only a small percentage of physicians there are from the country. The country is undergoing rapid change, and has devoted 25 percent of its budget to higher education, Parmelee said.

They want to create and they are rapidly doing so a whole infrastructure of medical education, he said.

Their new agreement could be renewed for two additional years, and Wright State would be paid $1 million per year, Parmelee said.

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Dr. Teresa F. Clawson chose a specialty in medical school sometimes referred to as "big city" medicine: neonatology. But when she moved to Winchester Medical Center, she fulfilled her desire to redirect her expertise to the rural community.

Clawson was appointed to the center's Board of Trustees on Dec. 17. She joined the hospital in June of 1996 after completing fellowships at Indiana University School of Medicine and was made the director of the center's newborn nurseries in 1997.

Clawson said her work with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has given her a greater appreciation for the importance of including patients in medical decision-making.

"The patient's story is important to hear," she said. "A lot of times there's a disconnect between what is put on paper and what reaches the patient. And there may be a disconnect between what we do and what we think they want."

After leaving Indiana University, Clawson looked into applying to some large, urban hospitals, but chose the medical center so she could have a closer relationship with her patients.

"This is considered a rural hospital, and I was very struck by the caliber of care here," she said. "One of the things that was important to me when I went into medicine was being able to serve the community that I live in."

The neonatology department has been proactive, Clawson said, when including patients and families in health decisions.

"We've been working toward getting the family voice involved," she said.

Clawson said she hopes to apply those principles to the entire hospital through her position on the Board of Trustees, encouraging physicians to consult with patients and their families.

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Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Motto Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra Established 1961 Type Public Dean Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD Academic staff 2,800 (full-time, part-time, and volunteer) Students 640 Other students 450 (residents and Fellows) Location New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Camden, New Jersey, USA Campus Urban and Suburban Affiliations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website http://rwjms.rutgers.edu

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) is the graduate medical school of Rutgers University. It is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. Robert Wood Johnson is one of two medical schools that are a part of Rutgers University's School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.[1]

In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center.[citation needed] In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 20 basic science and clinical departments, and hosts centers and institutes including The Cardiovascular Institute, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.

The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs.

Previously an academic unit of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School transferred to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as part of the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act, on July 1, 2013.

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School was formed in 1961 as Rutgers Medical School, part of Rutgers University, with a planning grant from the Kellogg Foundation. In the fall of 1963, the first faculty members joined the school and the first class of 16 students entered in September 1966. At the end of two years of instruction, students transferred to other four-year medical schools to complete their education.

In 1970, the Rutgers Medical School was organizationally united with the New Jersey Medical School in Newark and the New Jersey Dental School to form the "College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey" (later renamed the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), and became a full four year medical school. Raritan Valley Hospital, in Green Brook, New Jersey, was the school's original clinical teaching affiliate, until 1977 when Middlesex General Hospital (now Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital) in New Brunswick became the primary teaching hospital of Rutgers Medical School. The first doctor of medicine degrees were conferred in June 1974. In 1980, the Board of Trustees established a second clinical campus of the medical school in Camden with Cooper University Medical Center, (now Cooper University Hospital). On July 1, 1986, UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School was renamed Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

In 1995 the Clinical Academic Building (CAB), a 225,000-square-foot (20,900m2) facility for outpatient activities, research laboratories, academic offices and support programs, opened adjacent to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick, and in 1997, the 75,000-square-foot (7,000m2) Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) opened its doors. CINJ became an independent institute on July 1, 2013 with the integration to Rutgers, but is managed by faculty of the medical school. In October 2003, the school opened and dedicated the Research Building in Piscataway, which houses twenty-seven research laboratories as well as a core imaging suite, interdepartmental instruments, and a core nuclear magnetic resonance facility.

Construction of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey was completed in 2005, linking Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and the PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital, in New Brunswick. This tri-institutional biomedical research and pediatric care center serves as the cornerstone of the childrens academic campus of the medical school bringing the scientific and clinical programs together with hospital based programs. In May 2004, the State of New Jersey created the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.

Over the course of a decade, beginning in 2002, various state and university commissions were established to explore restructuring higher education in the stateand UMDNJ specifically. Commissions led by P. Roy Vagelos, MD; The Hon. Thomas H. Kean; and Sol J. Barer, PhD, produced a variety of recommendations during that time, until on Aug. 22, 2012, the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act was approved by the state legislature and signed by Governor Chris Christie.As a result of this legislation, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools New Brunswick campus and all schools, institutes, and centers of UMDNJexcept for the School of Osteopathic Medicine, the entire Stratford campus, the remaining UMDNJ facilities in Camden, and University Hospitalwere transferred to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on July 1, 2013. In addition to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School becoming a part of Rutgers, its Cancer Institute of New Jersey became an independent institute at Rutgers University, distinct and separate from the Medical School. Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools Camden campus was transferred to Rowan University on that date as well, joining Rowans Cooper Medical School.

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23 Dec 2013Two teams led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been approved for funding awards by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). One group will develop and expand a health data network for vasculitis patients and researchers, while... Read more

18 Dec 2013John Lambris, Ph.D., the Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, is part of an 8 million dollar (6 million Euro) European Union FP7 grant, which has been awarded... Read more

18 Dec 2013Leaders from the ACC, including its director Chi V. Dang, MD, PhD, bestowed Bert Vogelstein, MD, a world-renowned geneticist from The Johns Hopkins University and a University of Pennsylvania alumni, with the inaugural Abramson Award. Read more

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Northwest Suburban High School District 214 recently banned medical marijuana on school property.

Officials inserted language into their policy that prohibits students, staff and visitors from possessing, or being under the influence of medical marijuana while on school property.

Superintendent David Schuler said it also will be part of the contract with all the bus and taxi companies that transport District 214 students.

"Even though they are not our employees, they are still bound by our policies," he said. "If they want to drive a bus that services District 214, they would have to agree to comply with these regulations."

District 214 board member Dave Petro reminded his colleagues that even though medical marijuana will be legal in Illinois, there are still laws against driving under the influence. Possession, sale and use of marijuana is still also illegal at a federal level.

"We can make stiffer regulations than the law does in some situations," Schuler said.

The ban includes students or staff who may be chronically ill and use legally prescribed medical marijuana.

"We have the ability to not allow that on our campuses and certainly not for any of our contractors," said Board President Bill Dussling. "It's just not going to be a part of our system."

Although the law allowing medical marijuana in Illinois takes effect Jan. 1, it will likely take until summer to work out the regulations.

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With the wide-ranging benefits of reducing disease and enabling a longer, healthier life, reversing the causes of aging is a major focus of much medical research. A joint project between the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia and Harvard Medical School that restored communication within animal cells has the potential to do just that, and maybe more. With the researchers hoping to begin human clinical trials in 2014, some major medical breakthroughs could be just around the corner.

The researchers have managed to reverse the effects of aging in mice using an approach that restores communication between a cells mitochondria and nucleus. Mitochondria are the power supply within the cell, generating the chemical energy required for key biological functions. When communication breaks down between mitochondria and the cell's control center, the nucleus, the effects of aging accelerate.

A team led by David Sinclair, a professor from UNSW Medicine who is based at Harvard Medical School, found that by restoring this molecular communication, aging could not only be slowed, but could be reversed. The technique has implications for treating cancer, type 2 diabetes, muscle wasting, inflammatory and mitochondrial diseases.

The study follows on from previous research showing that exercise and certain dietary habits, such as calorie restriction or the intake of resveratrol (found in red wine and nuts), slowed the breakdown of intra-cellular communication and therefore aging.

Responsible for this breakdown is a decline of the chemical NAD. By increasing amounts of a compound used by the cell to produce NAD, Professor Sinclair found that he could quickly repair mitochondrial function.

It was shocking how quickly it happened, co-author Dr Nigel Turner, an ARC Future Fellow from UNSWs Department of Pharmacology says. If the compound is administered early enough in the aging process, in just a week, the muscles of the older mice were indistinguishable from the younger animals."

Looking for indicators of insulin resistance, inflammation and muscle wasting, the researchers found that the tissue of two-year-old mice given the NAD-producing compound for just one week resembled that of six-month-old mice. They said that this is comparable to a 60-year-old human converting to a 20-year-old in these specific areas.

They also found that young mice given the same compound became "supercharged" in certain aspects, suggesting that the technique could have benefits for young, healthy humans as well.

Another significant finding, with possible implications for cancer treatment, was the involvement of the chemical HIF-1. This chemical is responsible for the disruption of communication within the cell and is naturally produced by the body when deprived of oxygen. Cancer is also thought to be responsible for activating HIF-1 and the researchers have now found it also switches on during aging.

Its certainly significant to find that a molecule that switches on in many cancers also switches on during aging, said Ana Gomes, a postdoctoral scientist in the Sinclair lab. We're starting to see now that the physiology of cancer is in certain ways similar to the physiology of aging. Perhaps this can explain why the greatest risk of cancer is age.

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