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Greater Boston Unites To Transform Health Care
A coalition of organizations representing healthcare stakeholders throughout Greater Boston has been selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to participate in a planning grant to become part of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative. AF4Q is the Foundation"s signature effort to lift the overall quality of healthcare in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities, and provide models for national reform.
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Med Schools Improve Conflict Of Interest Policies, But Widespread Problems Remain
According to the latest ratings of two watchdog groups, medical schools are "improving their conflict-of-interest policies to police their ties with drug and medical-device makers. But more than half the schools still have inadequate policies or no policies at all," the Wall Street Journal"s Health Blog reports. The American Medical Student Association and the Pew Prescription Project said the number of schools earning top marks had more than doubled, in part because of pressure from lawmakers like Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. But, "there are a lot of schools that are yet to look seriously at these issues," the director of the Pew project said.
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MicroRNAs Help Control HIV Life Cycle
Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that specific microRNAs (non-coding RNAs that interfere with gene expression) reduce HIV replication and infectivity in human T-cells. In particular, miR29 plays a key role in controlling the HIV life cycle. The study suggests that HIV may have co-opted this cellular defense mechanism to help the virus hide from the immune system and antiviral drugs. The research was published today in the journal Molecular Cell.
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New Disability Learning Activities For GPs

Treating someone with an intellectual disability can be challenging for general practitioners, which has prompted the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) to play an important role in the development of two new learning activities to provide optimal care for patients with an intellectual disability. The two new online learning activities "Communicating with people with an intellectual disability" and "Challenging/problem behaviours in people with intellectual disability" are now available for free on the RACGP"s online learning platform gplearning at www.gplearning.com.au. RACGP President, Dr Chris Mitchell, said it was vital that GPs were appropriately trained in communicating effectively when seeing a patient with an intellectual disability. "Patients with an intellectual disability not only have complex health care needs but also find it difficult to communicate their health problems," Dr Mitchell said. "Communication is at the centre of the doctor-patient relationship and GPs need these special communication skills and familiarity with behavioural management approaches to ensure that patients with disabilities receive the care they need." These new learning modules provide GPs with methods and tools used in interpersonal communication and the ways in which people may communicate when they have difficulty using speech. Both learning activities were developed with the support of the Australian Government and written by Monash University, Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria (CDDHV) and have been approved for RACGP QA&CPD Category 2 points. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)


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