The latest in Medical Schools

Q&A: Jay Sean trades stethoscope for microphone

2010-02-22T10:04:53Z

<div><p>Jay Sean enjoys cutting up dead bodies. Really.</p><p>The singer — who made his U.S. debut in grand fashion with the No. 1 smash "Down" featuring label mate Lil Wayne — is a former medical student who used to cut up cadavers.</p><p>"Deep down inside, I'm a science geek," 26-year-old Sean said in a recent in...

ATTENDING TO UMCÕS WOES

2010-02-22T16:07:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Reid, Rogers talk about why public hospitalÕs business model is failing, and why now is the right time to fix it</div><div><p> Rory Reid and Jim Rogers are hoping the states struggling medical school can help transform Clark Countys failing public hospital into a world-class teaching hospital akin to what can be found at ...

Remaking a public hospital

2010-02-22T18:24:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Rogers a good choice to spur the effort to turn UMC into a teaching facility</div><div><p> Jim Rogers has a big job ahead of him. The millionaire businessman, philanthropist and former chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education was picked by Jim Rogers to attract a prestigious health care partner for University Medical Center, Clark County gets a messenger with big ideas, a big profile and a big personality.</p><p>Although that didnt always ...

PHYSICIAN, CLONE THYSELF

2010-02-23T11:23:36Z

<div><h1>PHYSICIAN, CLONE THYSELF </h1><p>Presuming Congress passes some version of a health-care bill and it is signed into law, some 30 million currently uninsured people will suddenly find themselves with access to doctors. But there may not be enough doctors to see them. </p><p> In 1997, lawmakers placed a cap on the number of medical residencies--hospital training required for all doctors--in order to ...

Suicide bomber hits Somali graduation, 22 dead

2010-02-23T21:10:23Z

<div><p>A suicide bomber disguised as a woman has attacked a graduation ceremony in Somalia, turning a rare reason to celebrate into carnage that killed at least 22 people — including medical students, doctors and three government ministers.</p><p>Thursday's blast was blamed on Islamic militants who have shown a rising ability to carry out sophisticated large-scale bombings against high-profile ...

Three Somali ministers among 19 dead in suicide blast

2010-02-23T21:21:23Z

<div><p>A suicide bomber killed 19 people including three Somali government ministers and injured scores more at a graduation ceremony for medical students in Mogadishu Thursday, officials said.</p><p>The blast which ripped through a hotel is the most serious attack on the transitional federal government (TFG) since the launch of an Reuters Health) - Medical students are commonly stuck by needles but often fail to report their injuries to employee health services, placing them at risk for hepatitis, HIV and other blood borne diseases, results of a survey show.</p><p>The problem, Dr. Martin A. Makary of Johns Hop...

Anatomy training facts, how to donate

2010-02-23T23:11:42Z

<div><p>Learning anatomy with cadavers is a centuries-old rite of passage that once again is getting a face-lift as medical schools struggle to mix this core knowledge with an explosion of new information from the genetics revolution.</p><p>Some facts:</p><p>_Italian Mondino de Luzzi in the early 14th century reported on a series of dissections to illuminate body function. For years after that, dissections were d...

Doctors in training still learn from cadavers

2010-02-23T23:11:24Z

<div><p>Color-coded denim cloths cover the row upon row of black body bags atop cold metal tables. Blue means a body that eventually will go into a common grave. Tan, the family wants those remains back for burial, eventually.</p><p>These are bodies donated to science, awaiting one of the most sensitive rites in becoming a doctor. Before first-year medical students lay their hands on the living, they learn anatomy from the dead.</p&a...

Anatomy drawings owned by Ben Franklin on display

2010-02-24T03:07:16Z

<div><p>Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by artists of bodies in a morgue.</p><p>The country's oldest hospital has unveiled a new exhibit of rare 18th-century anatomical illustrations, once owned by Benjamin Franklin, that provide a glimpse of how e...

Shooting suspect's superiors questioned behavior

2010-02-24T07:42:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Fort Hood shooting suspect's superiors questioned his strange behavior, work months ago</div><div><p>Nidal Malik Hasan's overly zealous religious views and strange behavior worried the doctors overseeing his medical training, but they saw no evidence that he was violent or a threat.</p><...

Cardiologist and Boston Sci exec Baim dies at 60

2010-02-24T08:42:34Z

<div><p>Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60.</p><p>Baim had undergone recent surgery to remove diseased tissue caused by adrenal cancer, a rare form of the disease that attacks the adrenal glands.</p><p>Baim, a former Associated Press series o...

Unproven Remedies Med Schools

2009-11-01T08:45:32Z

This May 6, 2009 photo shows medical student Jimmy Wu at a clinic in Oak Creek, Wis. Wu spent a summer in Beijing with a university faculty member observing traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and hopes to include these in a family medicine practice someday. The government has spent more than $22 million to help medical and nursing schools star...

Med school enrollment edges up; 11th year in a row

2010-02-24T16:39:41Z

<div id="subtitle">US medical school enrollment up for 11th year in a row; increases in black and Asian students</div><div><p>U.S. medical school enrollment is up for the 11th consecutive year as colleges seek to meet a growing demand for physicians.</p><p>First-year enrollment climbed 2 percent over 2008, and now totals nearly 18,400 students. The number of applicants remained mostly stable at around 42,000. Fou...