Med School News, Cannabis, Sex, and Bubble Wrap
Good Morning People.
At Washington University in St. Louis, the Medical Students put on an art show! Check it out at this link: ART SHOW
Several Georgetown University School of Medicine staff members have launched a Web site that provides no-cost continuing medical education programs for physicians seeking alternatives to pharmaceutical company-sponsored CME. Check it out at: PharmedOut!
That's all I got for today......
News
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1. Drugmaker to test fat-fighting marijuana drug
"Cannabis is commonly associated with stimulating hunger. Several other companies, including Sanofi-Aventis with Acomplia, are working on new drugs that try to switch off the brain circuits that make people hungry when they smoke it."
2. Chinese shrub gives best cure for deadly malaria
"If it wasn't for the fresh, sharp scent, you could easily mistake Sweet Wormwood for any other kind of shrub. But this shrub, also called the Artemisia annua, is widely regarded by medical experts as the best cure for malaria, one of the world's leading killer diseases."
3. Teen uses Bubble Wrap to aid amputees
"Grayson Rosenberger often marveled at his parents' work with prosthetic patients in Africa and wondered how he could contribute to their effort. The 15-year-old from Nashville finally found a way, and it was recognized Monday as the grand prize winner in Sealed Air Corp.'s inaugural Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors."
4. McDonald’s finally picks trans-fat-free oil
NOW THIS FOOD IS REALLY HEALTHY!
"McDonald’s Corp. has finally selected a new trans-fat-free oil for cooking its famous french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said Monday. While it has developed a healthier new oil, the company is still not saying when it will be used in all 13,700 U.S. restaurants. It already trails competitors in committing to a zero-trans fat oil."
5. Study: Low sodium levels in preemies linked to food preferences
"In a study of 41 children and teenagers who’d been born prematurely, researchers found that those who’d had low sodium levels in their blood at birth had a particular fondness for salty food."
6. Sex does the body good
"The best that modern science can say for abstinence is that it's harmless when practiced in moderation. "Saving yourself" before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoe-down or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral advantage; but physiologically it does zip. Having regular and enthusiastic sex, by contrast, confers a host of measurable physiological advantages, be you male or female. (This assumes that you are engaging in sex without contracting a sexually transmitted disease.)
2 comments:
i recently moved from research to sales. i refused to sell for drug companies. anyway, i renew site licenses to UpToDate. They rule because they won't advertise at all nor will they accept money from pharma or even non-pharma. subscribers only. you might have it at your med school but as an fyi - when you're out of med school and have CME to worry about - the individual subscription tallys up 0.5 category 1 CME for every topic review you look at. whether you glance at it or read it in its entirety. also, if you look it up again - another half of a CME credit. then you go to your cme page and it lists your credits you can claim. you just click claim and then print out a CME certificate. I printed one out after practicing my sales school demo (that i will never have to do since i just renew hospitals) anyway - i now have 6 CME credits... which count for nothing because I'm not a doctor... anyway, are you still reading this comment? shouldn't you be studying? :-)
Really? they actually are doing new drugs, so the people don't get fat when they stonned!? this is just amazing, how fresh you could be? how d' about fighting the fatness by not selling any drugs?
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