Every few months for the past 30 years, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital pediatrician Paul Wise, MD, MPH, has traveled to rural Guatemala to provide health …
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USA Today article explores so-called "July effect" at hospitals
Last month, my colleague discussed the so-called "July effect" at teaching hospitals and mentioned new research showing that medical errors spike every year during that …
Making sure medical schools keep pace with 21st-century innovations
Last night my husband demoed his shiny new iPhone 4 to a group of friends over dinner. As he video chatted with his brother using …
Michigan's medical school bans industry pay for continuing medical education
The University of Michigan Medical School has announced it will no longer take money from drug and device companies to pay for continuing medical education …
Webby Award for best health site goes to WebMD
In case you missed it, the Webby Awards were presented earlier this week. The winner in the health category? WebMD, which has also been the …
In commencement address, Atul Gawande calls for innovation around "entire packages of care"
The explosion of health care costs in America is not a problem rooted in economics; it's a problem rooted in scientific complexity. That was the …
New England Journal of Medicine introduces iPhone app
Yesterday, the New England Journal of Medicine released a shiny new iPhone application, and for a limited time you can download it for free. The …
Two weeks left to submit entries for medical prose awards
Listening to Abraham Verghese, MD, speak recently about his dual identities as doctor and author put me in the mood for some medical prose. Fortunately, …
Anna Deavere Smith to perform at Medical Grand Rounds
Anna Deavere Smith is no doctor but she plays hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus on the hit Showtime series, "Nurse Jackie." Next Wednesday, Smith will be …
The penalty for malpractice in ancient Babylon
There's a rather interesting entry on KevinMD today excerpting a historical issue of the the Journal of the American Medical Association. The excerpts describe how …
Mobile Health 2010 presentations now posted
Genotype testing for medical, graduate students
The Stanford School of Medicine will offer an elective course this summer in which medical and graduate students will have the opportunity to have their …
Image of the Week: Microarray of 8,700 gene sequences
This week's image is a mouse cDNA microarray containing approximately 8,700 gene sequences. It was printed at the National Cancer Institute Microarray Facility and it …
The "July effect" confirmed at teaching hospitals
As a graduate student in Stanford's Cancer Biology Program, I had my fair share of medical-student friends. It was always interesting to hear their behind-the-scenes …
Using soils science to tackle Asia's arsenic problem
I spent a lot of time staring at textbooks as an undergraduate at Stanford, despite majoring in geology in an attempt to avoid that fate. …
Atul Gawande to speak at Stanford medical school commencement
Author and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, has been named the commencement speaker for Stanford medical school's Class of 2010. Dean Philip Pizzo, MD, recently commented: …