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Closing The Gender Gap During Medical School
Half of U.S. first-year medical students are female, yet a new UCLA study shows that they volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male counterparts. Subtle encouragement from teachers, however, can even out the playing field by boosting female students' willingness to identify themselves as leaders...

Mayo Leaps Into Social Media Marketing
The Mayo Clinic is opening a school of social media for health providers, the (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune reports. The new "Center for Social Media... [will] train other health care organizations to use Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to connect patients and doctors. The new center will run workshops, offer consulting and host conferences...

College Of GPs Welcomes New Regulations For Collaborative Care, Australia
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has welcomed the new regulations for collaborative care arrangements contained in the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2010. These changes provide further clarity regarding the nature of the collaborative care arrangements between medical practitioners, nurse practitioners and midwives...

Reform Of Primary Care Could Reduce Costly Diagnostic Errors
Errors in diagnosis place a heavy financial burden on an already costly health care system and can be devastating for affected patients. Strengthening certain aspects of a new and evolving model of comprehensive and coordinated primary care could potentially address this highly relevant, but underemphasized safety concern, say Mark Graber, M.D...

Today's OpEds: Medical Liability And Health Reform, And What About The 'New' Public Option?
Medical Liability Bill Key To Health Reform Roll Call Repealing ObamaCare and reforming our health care system in a responsible manner continues to be our primary goal - a goal that our constituents sent us here to achieve. Thus, we remain committed to passing comprehensive medical liability reform as part of the solution...

High Levels Of Patient Satisfaction 'Testimony To Hard Work Of GPs', Says BMA Scotland
Commenting on the publication of GP patient survey results, Dr Andrew Buist, Deputy Chairman of the BMA's Scottish General Practitioners Committee: "These results are testimony to the hard work of GPs and their practice teams across Scotland. For the 90 per cent of patients that rate their care as good or excellent, we must ensure that our standards do not slip...

PhRMA Asks FDA To Be More Straightforward On Safeguards It Wants To Fight Drug Risks
The pharmaceutical industry trade group PhRMA said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration should do a better job of explaining additional safeguards it mandates against certain drugs when it issues warnings, Reuters reports...

Industry Still Making Sense Of Federal E-Health Regs
Health care industry players are still sorting out the latest regulations on an up-to-$36 billion federal program to encourage doctors and hospitals to use electronic medical records...

At Summit, AU Leaders Discuss Funding Challenges For Maternal, Child Health
African leaders focused on the theme of the 15th African Union (AU) Summit on Sunday: maternal and infant mortality on the continent, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (7/26). Leaders expressed concern that women continue to face health challenges that are easily treatable, according to Daily Nation/allAfrica.com...

The Time To Set Up GP Consortia Is Now - NHS Alliance
GP commissioners and PCTs should get their GP consortia up and running as soon as possible, urges Dr Dixon, chairman of the NHS Alliance. Dr Dixon will be talking at the NHS Alliance/APEX North East PBC Regional Event, which will address 180 future GP commissioning leaders in the North East, including GPs, practice managers, PBC leads, cluster managers, LMC members and PCT managers...

Britain Plans To Decentralize NHS, Tranfer Budget To General Practitioners
British officials are proposing a plan to decentralize the National Health Service, news outlets report. "The new organization, which the government says will focus on patients, will transfer the bulk of Britain's $160 billion health care budget to general practitioners," The Fiscal Times reports...

Federal Prosecutors Drop Long-Standing Fraud Charges Against Doctor From The Philippines
"Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a doctor from the Philippines who went into hiding after being accused of scamming a military health program out of more than $1 million in the 1990s," The Associated Press reports. "The U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Wisconsin moved to drop a fraud indictment against Dr...

Physicians Often Guess Wrong About Their Patients' Beliefs About Health
US physicians are often poor judges of their patients' health beliefs, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Street from Texas A & M University and Paul Haidet from The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, USA. However, physicians' understanding is better the more patients are involved by asking questions, expressing concerns, and stating their beliefs and preferences for care...

Primary Care Shortages Affect Even Doctor-Heavy Massachusetts
The Boston Globe: Despite being home to the largest number of doctors per person, finding a primary care physician has been getting more difficult for Massachusetts residents since 2006, according a report released by the state...

Bill Giving Malpractice Coverage To Doctors Volunteering In Community Health Centers Faces Stiff Senate Resistance
The Hill: A bill aimed to appeal to physicians to work in medically underserved areas by shielding them from paying for malpractice coverage is facing stiff opposition...