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TUMWATER – Thurston County colleges and school districts need to be more involved with the private sector, school administrators said Wednesday.
Those comments were shared as part of a wide-ranging conversation during the ninth annual “Education Summit.” The event, organized by the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce, gathers educators to discuss current issues in an open [...]

British doctors designed a radical solution in 1995 to save a girl with major heart problems: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.
After 10 years with two blood-pumping organs, Hannah Clark’s faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: It healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated [...]

From time to time we rerun stories from the Olympian that may come up in practice.
Olympian Reports: “Half-dose flu shots are effective in adults, especially in women and those younger than 50, and offer a viable way to stretch supplies during vaccine shortages, a government study found. The strategy also might be an option during [...]

JAMA[Journal]
11/26/2008:JAMA patient page. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. JAMA
11/26/2008:2009 theme issue on violence and human rights–call for papers. JAMA
11/26/2008:Race and sex disparities in liver transplantation: progress toward achieving equal access? JAMA
11/26/2008:Current and future state of the US nursing workforce. JAMA
11/26/2008:Testing for fragile X gene mutations throughout the life span. JAMA
New England journal of medicine[Journal]

New England journal of medicine
10/09/2008: Insights into inflammation and influenza. N Engl J Med
10/09/2008: UKPDS and the legacy effect. N Engl J Med
10/09/2008: Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 31-2008. A 39-year-old man with chest pain, arthralgias, and a mediastinal mass. N Engl J Med
10/09/2008: Images in clinical medicine. Lymphadenopathy. N Engl J [...]

Oxygenation, Ventilation, and Ventilator
Management in the First 24 Hours
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Robert Huck, M.D., Pulmonology
Fluid & Electrolyte Balance
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Seth Thaler, M.D., Nephrology
Thurston County Pandemic Plan
Thursday, December 18, 2008
James Edstam, M.D., M.P.H.,
Pacific County Public Health Officer
Management of Sepsis: Beyond Antibiotics
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Jeffrey Christenson, M.D., Pulmonology
& Critical Care Medicine

Olympian ran the following story after a another cautionary note on bisphenol A was published today, this time a study in JAMA. Researchers found that adults with higher levels of BPA in their urine were more likely to have heart disease or diabetes. An accompanying editorial called for U.S. regulators to follow the lead of [...]

The Olympian is reporting on Thermogard XP™ Temperature Management System as important to cardiac and stroke patients.
“systems provide cooling and warming therapy via a computer-controlled temperature regulation system that connects to Alsius’ proprietary heat exchange catheters.  The catheters are inserted into a major vein through a patient’s neck or groin, and circulate cool or warm [...]

As reported in every local paper:
In a startling warning on cellphone safety, the head of a cancer research center in Pittsburgh told faculty and staff to curb their use of mobile phones because of a possible risk of cancer.
The alarm came from Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, the Associated Press [...]