This has been a busy month. The final first-year PBL class will be wrapping up, as the semester ends on Friday, Dec 18 2009. On Monday, I taught an evidence-based medicine class for 28 third-year medical students (which I’ve done since 2001).  It is...

” If you ever thought the stress of seeing your extended family over the holidays was slowly killing you—the bad news: a new research report in the December 2009 print issue of Journal of Leukocyte Biology shows that you might be right. Here’s the...

Organisation of Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) published its’ fifth annual edition of Health at a Glance 2009 – OECD Indicators on Dec 8 2009. The full report is available in English or French language; anyone may read the “web book”...

On Dec 1 2009, the Centers for Disease Control  & Prevention issued a general alert to citizens of the United States regarding a “phishing” scam that was discovered recently.  This type of announcement is rather unusual. Following is a screenshot of...

Today is World AIDS Day 2009 33.4 million people in the world are living with AIDS _____________________________________ Following is a brief list of statistical or factual sources for HIV/AIDS information: The UNAIDS.org (Joint United Nations...