The New Edition of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach

Understanding Health Policy: The most comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything needed to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues. It helps develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about healthcare in the United States, its problems, and possible solutions.

Expanded coverage of the impact of the Affordable Care Act, including Accountable Care Organizations and their impact, and global issues in health policy.

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The standard approach to treating cancer is giving patients the maximum tolerated amount of chemotherapy with the goal of doing the maximum possible damage to the tumor without killing the patient. This study demonstrates a different approach for ensuring efficacy of chemotherapy and minimizing toxicity.

Altmetric unveils its Top 100 list of the most shared and discussed academic research of 2015: http://www.altmetric.com/top100

The ranking is based on which research papers published in the last year have received the most attention from the sources tracked by Altmetric – including mainstream media sites, Wikipedia, blogs, social networks, and post-publication peer-review forums.

Scientists breach brain barrier to treat sick patient
For the first time, doctors have breached the human brain’s protective layer to deliver cancer-fighting drugs.
Read here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34775604

In a novel surgery, surgeons have transplanted the world’s first 3D printed titanium rib cage, NPR reports.

See Video and read here.

As public research grants for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have diminished and become increasingly competitive, researchers have to search for alternative funding sources.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection may be treated by a remedy from the 10th century, interesting research, in the news,

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Sleep may help the brain “unlearn” strongly ingrained biases (such as stereotypes), and sleep deprivation may make those biases more resistant to unlearning. A recent study reported in Science concludes that memory reactivation during sleep enhances counter stereotype training and that maintaining a bias reduction is sleep-dependent.

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http://ezproxy.sjsm.org:2070/content/348/6238/1013.full

Free DynaMed app for SJSM students

SJSM Students can use the clinical reference tool, DynaMed™ from EBSCO. You can now access the valuable, evidence-based content anywhere with the new DynaMed mobile app. The new app has been redesigned to make it easier and faster for physicians to find answers to clinical questions.
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JAMA launches free medical quiz app.
Available for the Iphone, not ready yet for Android. It is a type of medical game that may improve your diagnosis skills.

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APP from the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland

The UMEM Pearls App brings informative and useful emergency medicine educational pearls to your mobile device. Since 2007, the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland has developed pearls of knowledge in the field of emergency medicine and made them available to the broader medical community.

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