University of Chicago Receives Medical Book Collection "More than 3,700 rare medical books from the Rush University Medical Center will join the library collection of the University of Chicago as part of the school's dedication to the history of medicine." Read this article.... Submitted: on 25th Jan 2010 Tags: · medical · The · History · TheBook Party for CBS Medical Correspondent Jennifer Ashton Last night CBS medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton celebrated the release of her new book with some of television news' biggest stars. Avery Books hosted the party at Bar Americain in Manhattan. The book is entitled The Body Scoop for Girls: A Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You: "a no-holds-barred guidebook, based on her passion to cut through the embarrassment that girls o... Submitted: on 25th Feb 2010 Tags: · medical · straight · The · New Book · Passion · Scoop · TheBook Party for The Early Show Medical Correspondent Jennifer Ashton Last night CBS Early Show medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton celebrated the release of her new book with some of television news' biggest stars. Avery Books hosted the party at Bar Americain in Manhattan. The book is entitled The Body Scoop for Girls: A Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You: "a no-holds-barred guidebook, based on her passion to cut through the embarrassment t... Submitted: on 25th Feb 2010 Tags: · medical · straight · The · New Book · Passion · Scoop · The“Spellwright” by Blake Charlton (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Official Blake Charlton Website Order “Spellwright” HERE AUTHOR INFORMATION: Blake Charlton overcame severe dyslexia in grade school when he began sneaking fantasy and science fiction books into special ed study hall. Inspired, he went on to graduate summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University. Blake is currently a third-year medical student at Stanford Medical School, wher... Submitted: on 3rd Feb 2010 Tags: · information · medical · Science · When · And Science Fiction Books · Author · Author Information · Fantasy · Fantasy And Science Fiction · Fiction Books · medical · Science Fiction Books · StudySir Terry Pratchett calls for euthanasia tribunals Author wants euthanasia tribunals to give sufferers from incurable diseases the right to medical help to end their lives The author Sir Terry Pratchett is calling for euthanasia tribunals to give sufferers from incurable diseases the right to medical help to end their lives. Pratchett will insist in his Dimbleby lecture, to be broadcast tonight, that "the time is really coming" for legalising assi... Submitted: on 1st Feb 2010 Tags: · medical · The · Author · Lives · Terry PratchettThe Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande is a surgeon specializing in endocrine oncology, a teacher at Harvard Medical School, and a writer for the New Yorker magazine. But he found time a while back to take on a WHO committee that was trying to... Submitted: on 13th Jan 2010 Tags: · medical · Surgeon · The · Magazine · Surgeon · The New Yorker · Writer SCOTT HORTON—Six Questions for Dr. Michael Baden: The Guantánamo autopsies 2. Do deaths in the context of confinement in prison raise any special concerns for a medical examiner conducting an autopsy? . . . Submitted: on 4th Feb 2010 Tags: · medical · The · SixHow to knit a hose Did you know that the earliest extant knitting pattern dates from 1655? "It occurs in an anonymous medical compendium called Natura Exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her published in London." It consists of a single... Submitted: on 21st Jan 2010 Tags: · London · medical · The · Anonymous · medical · PublishedRoad Trip Rescue Thank you so much for your kind words yesterday about my back. It’s feeling much better now, just a bit stiff. Instead my poor son has gone down with a nasty throat virus-thingy so I am still writing from a medical ward. We’re obviously just having one of those collective low-health moments. But I am also Submitted: on 30th Jan 2010 Tags: · medical · Health · WritingThe Music Room by William Fiennes This book was like a rope with 3 strands. One strand was a memoir, one was a tribute to the author’s brother who had epilepsy and the third was tracing the history of medical research into that disease. The strands did not always blend seamlessly and each generated a different feeling in me, leaving Submitted: on 25th Jan 2010 Tags: · medical · The · Always · Author · History · Memoir · Music · William
