General Healthcare News
Nearly half of all U.S. doctors fail to report incompetent or unethical colleagues, even though they agree that such mistakes should be reported, researchers said on Monday. They found that 46 percent of physicians surveyed admitted they knew...
The Wall Street Journal previously reported (11/20, D1, Zimmerman) reports that Americans' use of text-messaging services to obtain health information is increasing. This method "is fast, cheap and private. Unlike voice mail, it is...
With Nicotini, no need to light up (Chicago Sun-Times) From pine fin martinis to chocolate martinis to nicotinis March 12, 2008BY LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporter / ldonovan@suntimes.com Sooner or later, a creative soul was going to have to come up...
Eric G. Campbell, PhD; Susan Regan, PhD; Russell L. Gruen, MD, PhD; Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH; Sowmya R. Rao, PhD; Paul D. Cleary, PhD; and David Blumenthal, MD, MPP Annals of Internal Medicine 4 December 2007 | Volume 147 Issue 11 | Pages...
The New York Times (3/7, Chang) reported that a "team of scientists, including Linda B. Buck, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has retracted a scientific paper that described...
Dear Colleague: I would like to bring your attention to a very important campaign currently underway on Sermo. The Sermo physician community is working on drafting an "open letter to the people of the United States" reflecting our...
