02 Sep 10 Doctors Without Boundaries: The Ethics of Teacher-Student Relationships in Academic Medicine

Physician teachers are required to be respectful exemplars of professionalism and interpersonal ethics in all environments, be it the hospital, classroom, or outside the educational setting. Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

02 Sep 10 Recent Public Policy Reports Online at www.aibs.org/public-policy-reports

Public Policy Report for 6 July 2010 AIBS President-elect shares thoughts on future of biology with House subcommittee. On 29 June, James P. Collins, AIBS president-elect and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University, testified before a House research and science education subcommittee hearing examining the future of the biological sciences. The hearing was spurred, in part, by the National Research Council's recent publication, A New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy, the report makes recommendations for a "new biology" that can advance basic research and solve world p...

02 Sep 10 Call for SPA parity regardless of grade

SAS leader demands the specialty receives the same professional development time as other senior hospital doctors (Source: BMA daily feed)

02 Sep 10 Spoonful of Sugar Debunked as Baby Painkiller (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Sugar given to blunt pain in newborns undergoing invasive procedures may only mask signs of distress, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Pain Management)

02 Sep 10 Similar Survival with Two Ovarian Cancer Strategies (CME/CE, with audio)

(MedPage Today) -- Patients with bulky, advanced ovarian cancer survived just as long whether treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery or with primary surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, investigators in a multinational trial reported. (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)

02 Sep 10 ESC: Pre-Procedure Statins May Cut MI Risk (CME/CE)

STOCKHOLM (MedPage Today) -- Statins delivered before invasive procedures appear to reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular events, a meta-analysis showed. (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)

01 Sep 10 Tight BP Control Flops for Most CKD Patients (CME/CE, with audio)

(MedPage Today) -- Intensive blood pressure control doesn't slow progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in hypertensive patients overall but may help those with baseline proteinuria, according to a randomized trial. (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)

01 Sep 10 ‘Brain Exercise’ May Worsen Existing Alzheimer’s (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Keeping mentally active may help stave off Alzheimer's disease, but once patients are diagnosed with the condition, "brain exercise" may actually speed up cognitive decline, researchers said -- adding that that may not be a bad thing. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)

01 Sep 10 Selenium Linked to Lower Bladder Cancer Risk (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- The trace mineral selenium may help prevent bladder cancer, especially in women, according to a meta-analysis. (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)

01 Sep 10 Behavior Trial Shows Dementia Benefits (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Patients with dementia had significant short-term improvement in functional and quality-of-life outcomes after four months of home-based behavioral intervention, investigators reported. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)