Students granted a reprieve

Lake reprieve

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, backed down in the face of popular protest last month, and ordered that an oil pipeline be diverted from Lake Baikal, the world's largest mass of fresh water. The East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline will carry 1.6 million barrels of oil a day to fast-growing markets in Asia, bolstering Russia's role as an energy power. It was originally intended to pass wi...

List of Granted Patents

Medical Aspects Taken for Granted

*To whom correspondence should be addressed: Mohammad Ahad Qayyum, 9 J Johar Town, Sunflower Colony, Lahore, Pakistan Tel: 92-42-5310776 E-mail: [email protected] It is quite extraordinary how the knowledge of certain aspects of medicine such as understanding medical etymology, symbols and history are not stressed upon during our medical training. These aspects are in fact responsible for...

"GMA Award for Teaching Students" granted for the second time, Announcement for 2012

Um dem zunehmenden Engagement von Studierenden in der Ausbildung ihrer Kommilitonen gerecht zu werden, wurde auf der diesjährigen Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) zum zweiten Mal der „Preis für lehrende Studierende“ für herausragende Leistungen in der medizinischen Hochschullehre vergeben. Hintergrund ist das weiterhin zunehmende Engagement von Studierenden in der...

Taking things for granted.

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/03.ONF.195 I had been talking recently with two of my best oncology nurse friends about two different but ultimately related topics. One called me to express her frustration about some television advertisements that for a time were airing frequently during prime time—ads for a drug that stimulates white blood cell production in patients receiving chemotherapy....