Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Smoking rates in the USA range from 28.4% for adults with no high school education, 28.6% among individuals with no health insurance, to 9.1% for employees with at least a bachelor's degree, according to a report "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Sept. 30, 2011" issued by the CDC (Centers for ...
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
For 200 years, fund managers in Edinburgh built their companies by handpicking stocks. Now, a Mexican academic and former bodybuilder is trying to prove a computer can teach itself to do better
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
The Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) does not reliably predict academic performance at university, according to a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia. In 2009, 14 universities in Australia and New Zealand used the UMAT as part of their selection processes ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
UK trained doctors and medical students from minority ethnic groups tend to underperform academically compared with their white counterparts, finds a study published on bmj.com today. This attainment gap has persisted for many years and must be tackled to ensure a fair and just method of training and assessing current ...
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
Despite strong advocacy for academic health science centres (AHSCs) to be introduced in Australia, they have been ignored, according to an article in the Medical Journal of Australia. An AHSC is a partnership between a tertiary health care provider and a university. Together they drive a care ...
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