All week our PE class has been doing the fitness tests. We started with the shuttle run and also did the sit ups and sit and reach tests. Tomorrow is the push ups so those are a piece of cake for me but Friday we are doing the mile run. As a field hockey player, I'm normally pretty good at...
For his work in defining how a type of head and neck cancer should be studied in clinical trials and ultimately be treated, Robert Den, M.D., a radiation oncologist at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, has been selected as the clinical winner of the Poster Discussion Recognition Award at...
The 2010 Pat Clear Award, the Australian medicines industry's most prestigious award, has been won by Dell Kingsford Smith, an executive of the pharmaceutical company Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd. The Award was presented to Ms Kingsford Smith at the Medicines Australia conference last night (Tuesday)...
Demetrius H. Bagley, M.D., the Nathan Lewis Hatfield Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology at Jefferson Medical College (JMC) of Thomas Jefferson University was recently honored as the 2010 recipient of the Karl Storz Lifetime Achievement Award in Endourology at the World Congress of...
Joseph Boscarino, Ph.D, M.P.H.,will be recognized by the International Society of Traumatic Stress (ISTSS) with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the research of traumatic stress. ISTSS - an international, interdisciplinary professional organization that promotes the...
The Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. (LFA) congratulates John Harley, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, who has received a $1.1 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Congressionally Directed Peer Reviewed Medical...
URAC, a leading health care accreditation organization, recognized its 2010 HealthCare Stars! Awards winners. Honored this year were Michael Testa, CPhT, Deborah Weaver, RN, BSN, and Frank Whitchurch, RPh. URAC's Health Care Stars! Award honors those who have demonstrated a commitment to the...
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA) have chosen Helga Noice, PhD, and Tony Noice, PhD, of Elmhurst College as the 2010 recipients of the Gene D. Cohen Research Award in Creativity and Aging. This award recognizes and honors the seminal...
Dr Karen Flegg was presented with the Alan Chancellor Award at GP10 - The Conference for General Practice - in Cairns last week. The Alan Chancellor award is presented each year to the best first-time presenter of a research paper at the annual conference. The winner receives $500 and an...
Dr James Best, a general practitioner from Leichhardt, New South Wales, has won the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) General Practice Supervisor of the Year Award 2010. The General Practice Supervisor of the Year Award recognises the dedication of general practitioners...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has recognised the outstanding commitment to Australian general practice made by Dr Eric Fisher, a general practitioner from Northbridge NSW, awarding him with the RACGP's most prestigious honour: the Rose-Hunt Award. The Rose-Hunt...
Two health teams, Dr Melania Scrace and the Apunipima Health Service, and Dr Gillian Gould and Mr David Kennedy, have been jointly awarded the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' (RACGP) Standing Strong Together Award 2010 in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. The...
Dr Peter Joseph, a general practitioner from Hackney, South Australia, has won the Royal Australian College of General Practitioner (RACGP) Brian Williams Award 2010. The Brian Williams Award was created in 2006 and is awarded by the RACGP National Rural Faculty to a member of the College who...
Dr Patrick Byrnes, a general practitioner from Bundaberg, Queensland, has won the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) General Practitioner of the Year Award 2010. The RACGP General Practitioner of the Year Award recognises an individual general practitioner's understanding...
Now that the season is over. Who do you think has the best shot to win Rookie of the Year in the NL? I am from St Louis so obviously I would love Jamie Garcia to take it but does he have a legitimate shot?
The alternative Nobel Prize awards, the Ig Nobels, have been called for another year, with this particular winner making everyone laugh with an rc helicopter that collects whales' mucus and breath. A deserving winner, I think you might agree. More »
Young Investigator Award Recipient Announced - American Academy of Allergy, Asthma &
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and CSL Behring are pleased to announce Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, as the recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator...
The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) presented its Techno-College Innovation Award for 2010 to Siemens Healthcare for its development of the syngo Aortic ValveGuide software. The new imaging application software helps cardiologists and heart surgeons to prepare for and...
On Sept. 15, the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart was awarded the 2010 Kerrin Rennie Award for Excellence in Medical Technology by the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA). The award was presented to SynCardia's Australian distributor Device Technologies during the MTAA...
An eminent international panel of judges has selected Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) to receive a World Business and Development Award for demonstrating what can be achieved through successful partnerships in the battle against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Lilly was chosen...