Last week, leading epidemiologist Dr. Jeremy Farrar, accepted the position as the new Director of the Wellcome Trust. He will begin his appointment on October 1, 2013. The Wellcome Trust “is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. It does this by supporting the brightest minds in biomedicalMORE

Elsevier’s Office of Continuing Medical Education partnered up with AcademicCME and ArcheMedX to bring you the new ThrombosisClinic.com! It’s an all-new resource that connects the entire multidisciplinary team to reduce mortality and improve healthcare outcomes for patients with thromboembolic disease. “Clinicians face a daily challenge to stay up to date with new and emerging bestMORE

Elsevier’s Insight Series Webinar is almost here! This Tuesday, April 30th at 5pm EST, editor of the Competency-Based Companion series, Dr. Barry Mann, along with several other distinguished physicians and educators, will be discussing new resources and approaches to clinical problems using the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies. During this roundtable discussion,MORE

Mammography is currently the most widely used technique for breast cancer screening – but there may be better ways, according to new findings published in Elsevier’s influential publication, The American Journal of Medicine. Jennifer S. Drukteinis, MD, lead author of “Beyond Mammography: New Frontiers in Breast Cancer Screening”, discusses the cons of mammography: reduced sensitivityMORE