At the recent American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions and news conference, Jefferson researcher Paul DiMuzio, MD, presented results from experiments comparing stem cells derived from the abdominal fat of different age groups. The stem cells harvested from the elderly patients turned out to be as viable as those harvested from younger patients.
“A major problem for [...]

Scientific current affairs magazine New Scientist is celebrating its 50th year with a special anniversary issue. The issue features top scientists’ predictions for the next 50 years and the best scientific breakthroughs covered by the journal over the past 50 years.
New Scientist covers news, ideas and innovations from every field of science. The [...]

AccessMedicine now includes more than 50 clinical cases from the LANGE Case Files  in the following subjects:
- Anatomy
- Emergency medicine
- Microbiology
- Pathology
- Physiology
- Pharmacology
Each case includes Q&A, clinical correlations, and pearls.

The AAAS/Science Online resource SAGE KE (Science of Aging Knowledge Environment) stopped publishing new content on June 28, 2006, but now its full text archive has been opened for AAAS members and institutional subscribers. To access it, you must register individually for a personal user name and password.  Registration is free, [...]

MD Consult now presents drug information provided by Gold Standard Media (GSM), dropping Mosby’s Drug Consult. In addition to standard pharmaceutical coverage, GSM data covers a wide range of herbal and nutritional products, and includes:

Enhanced coverage of off-label uses
Extensive coverage of specialty dosage for patients with renal impairment and hepatic impairment
Extensive coverage of [...]

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has released a new hospital-specific report. Hospital-acquired Infections in Pennsylvania is the first of its kind in the nation; the report identifies the actual number of infections reported during 2005 in each of Pennsylvania’s 168 general acute care hospitals, as well [...]

Thomson Scientific has announced the deposit of 2.2 million chemical structures from Thomson Pharma into PubChem, the freely accessible database that provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology [...]

UpToDate has released version 14.3, including more than 200 new topics, and revisions of 41% of existing topics. Graphics have been improved to enhance on-screen readability and the quality of print-outs.
Read more about these graphics and other news at UpToDate in their online newsletter at www.uptodate.com/img/newsletter.pdf.

The GME E-letter reports that the ACGME approved major revisions to the following program requirements, effective July 1, 2007:

Psychiatry
Child Psychiatry
Pediatric Surgery
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

In addition, proposed major revisions to the following sets of program requirements are now available for review/comment:

Endovascular Neuroradiology
Neuroradiology
Pathology
Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Common Program Requirements

The free GME E-newsletter is produced by the Medical Education Group [...]

MD Consult has a new look and new features:

The home page has a simpler search interface that lists the most popular MD Consult books and journals in your self-designated specialty.
Book search results include a snapshot of your search terms in context.
A new option allows you to look for images within the dozens of MD Consult [...]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has issued a report on consumer behavior when searching for health information on the Internet. Based on surveys conducted in August 2006, it found that 80% of American Internet users had searched for health information, and that on a typical day about 10 million Americans seek health [...]