Dr. Vera Peters Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate 2010

Born on a dairy farm near Toronto, Dr. Mildred Vera Peters is most notably recognized as an outstanding clinical investigator who changed the management of Hodgkin’s disease and breast cancer. In addition, her legacy as a clinician her deep desire to know and involve her patients in decision-making also marks her as a [...]

‘Gelotophobia’ Is No Laughing Matter

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
Shy people often avoid situations that force close contact with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make others laugh at them.
But some people worry much more than others about being the target of laughter. These people are frightened. They suffer [...]

Dr. James Hogg Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate 2010

Born in Winnipeg, Dr. James Hoggs brilliant career and uniquely-blended background in pathology, pulmonary physiology and molecular biology has leveraged over 40 years of seminal contributions to the world’s understanding of lung disease. An outstanding researcher, teacher, lecturer and colleague, Dr. Hogg has arguably had a greater influence on the medical
community’s knowledge of Chronic Obstructive [...]

GET PUBLISHED FAST with the journal Social Science & Medicine

In this video Dr. Mowat, Managing Editor for Social Science & Medicine, tells authors how to GET PUBLISHED FAST with Social Science & Medicine, the Worlds Most Cited Social Science journal. Authors can see their accepted manuscript online on ScienceDirect one week after acceptance. For more information visit the journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed.
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Beyond Medicine

Acne.org got in a magazine called “Beyond Medicine”, a publication of the California Pacific Medical Center. Cool stuff.
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Dr Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize, Orthmolecular Medicine

http://www.encognitive.com
Linus Carl Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on 28th February, 1901, the son of a druggist, Herman Henry William Pauling, who, though born in Missouri, was of German descent, and his wife, Lucy Isabelle Darling, born in Oregon of English-Scottish ancestry.
Linus attended the public elementary and high schools in the town of Condon and [...]

WFU School of Medicine History Part 2

carpenterlibraryhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/carpenterlibrary27157EducationWinston-Salem, Herbert, Headley, Tinsley, Harrison, Research, Publication, Amphitheatre, Forsyth, County, Medical, Society, Private, Diagnostic, Clinic, Wake, Forest, Univ., Physicians, J.P., Rousseau, Arthur, DeTalma, Valk, Wingate, Johnson, Graylyn, Grants, National, Institutes, of, Health, Graduate, Norman, Sulkin, Richard, Burt, Comparative, Medicine, Dianne, University, SchoolWFU School of Medicine History Part 2
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TEDxTerryTalks – Jennifer Gardy – 10/3/09

Talk Title: Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak
Description: Dr. Jennifer Gardy, an alumnus speaker at the event, is co-leading the new genome research lab at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). She is also known as Nerd Girl from her Globe and Mail blog of the same name. In her [...]

‘Ghost’ and ‘Guest’ Authors Still a Concern for Medical Journals

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Last week, we discussed one problem for medical journals: the question of authorship. You would think that all the scientists who took part in a research study would be listed as authors. But that is not always the case. Sometimes there are honorary authors and ghost authors. Honorary [...]

Iranian Organ Transplantation, One Of The Most Advanced

Organ transplantation in Iran is one of the most advanced in the World. Shahid Beheshti University http://www.sbu.ac.ir/english/Site.aspx
And the Iranian Society of Nephrology (IrSN) http://www.isn-iran.org/
Please, read these articles to prepare yourself for the video.
CATO Institute
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-614.pdf
Articles in Medical Journals on Iran’s Compensated Kidney Donation Program
Living unrelated kidney donor transplantation in Iran
http://www.nature.com/ncpneph/journal/v2/n12/full/ncpneph0364.html
The Journal of the American [...]