A new programme to try and match the preferences of students and consultants in preregistration appointments has been designed after a survey of student opinion. It is based on five main principles: a standardized change-over date for posts; holding only one post in a teaching hospital; separate application for house physician and house surgeon appointments; application six months before the po...

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of four nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains (PPUKM-261-2009, PPUKM-332-2009, PPUKM-377-2009, and PPUKM-775-2009) isolated from a university teaching hospital in Malaysia. Three of the strains belong to sequence type 239 (ST239), which has been associated with sustained hospital epidemics worldwide.

Reimbursement for services is down; practice overhead is up; community oncologist take-home income continues to erode-that is a common scenario today. No wonder community oncologists are interested in exploring alignment relationships with hospitals and academic medical centers. It can actually work too: fragmented services can be consolidated; oncologist incomes can be stabilized; communities ...

'Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; 4Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mas...

N ews of the completion of the new Wits School of Public Health (WSPH) building reminded me of the dream that so many of us had when the School was founded just over a decade ago. At the time I wrote: ‘The year 2001 will be remembered as the year in which the Wits School of Public Health was established. This event marks a defining moment in the development of Public Health at Wits. The establi...

A conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace was held by the Maharishi International University (MIU) Institute of World Peace at MIU in the Spring of 1991.1 A common theme in the conference was that the basic structure and dynamics of society must change in order to achieve a stable world peace. The speakers described a variety of ways in which a stable world peace was being pur...