The Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education (MCPE), a Polish government-sponsored continuing medical education (CME) provider, has signed a memorandum of understanding with New York City-based Exus Networks, Inc., a provider of satellite...
Nurses House, a charitable organization, has been designated by the American Nurses Association (ANA), American Nurses Foundation (ANF) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) to receive charitable contributions for registered nurses in...
World Medical Leaders, a New York City-based on-line CME provider, has announced an exclusive online presentation dealing with medical issues related to potential terrorist activities. These lectures presented at New York University Medical Center...
A bioterrorism advisory sent by county medical authorities to physicians at the behest of the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention has been shared by some doctors with their patients. Was this the right thing to do, or did such...
Cardiovascular disease is now the number- one killer around the globe, accounting for more than 30 percent of deaths worldwide and 45 percent of deaths in the industrial nations. Cardiovascular disease also keeps millions of people from living...
The American Hospital Association's (AHA)National Regional Policy Board and Governance meeting, scheduled for October 11 and 12 in Washington, D.C., has been canceled and will be replaced by a series of conference calls on the same dates. The AHA...
As the nation recovers from the horrific events of September 11, 2001, a dedicated team of professionals is hard at work searching for survivors and victims...
Does a positive mammogram mean a woman has breast cancer? Does a positive HIV test mean someone is infected with the virus? As ordinary people confront the laws of probability, the odds of misinterpretation and false alarms rise. Two German...
Physicians who participated in a study to determine their receptiveness to electronic continuing medical education (eCME) program - and online learning in general - revealed that case-based eCME has a significant impact on patient evaluation...
The American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) is offering free corrective skin surgery services to rescue workers and victims with abrasions, imbedded glass, cuts and scars resulting from the World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters...