Glad to see so many could make it to this week' s Grand Rounds! Since we couldn't get Richard Simmons to come in and do a quick exercise break, we' ll be following Dr. Emer's Fidget Your Way to Better Health program to keep us slim, trim, and...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This thoughtful article about Google Scholar appears in the June 7 (current) issue of CMAJ. The author is Jim Henderson, director of the McGill University Medical Library. He is skeptical of the value of...

I always think of Johnson & Johnson as one of the good guys, so it was very disheartening to read this article in the New York Times (free reg. req'd): Lucrative Drug, Danger Signals and the F.D.A. about its heartburn drug, Propulsid. A snip...

FromAnne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is a Web page that I update frequently for the Society for Academic ...

This post courtesy ofAnne Taylor-Vaisey: This is a forwarded message from Laure Perrier at the University of Toronto ...

From a press release...

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005 Jun;159(6):561-6: Continuing medical education in child sexual abuse: cognitive gains but not expertise.Botash AS, Galloway AE, Booth T, Ploutz-Snyder R, Hoffman-Rosenfeld J, Cahill L...

The upside of blowing the whistle on what you think is wrongdoing is that you can make some serious money doing it. The downside, as Pfizer's Peter Rost is finding out, is that no one at the company wants to have anything to do with you (frankly...

Another goodie from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Singapore Med J. 2005 Mar;46(3):108-14; quiz 115. ...

It's available at http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/current.shtml. A few articles that looked interesting to me were: ...