Worker dies in Northwestern construction site accident
Source: Chicago Tribune
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-16 14:39:51 -0700 | travel-news
Cox and Rosemary Regina Sobol Chicago Tribune A man working at a construction site on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston has died after he was struck by a beam that fell from six stories up this morning. The beam...
School gives France letter from Napoleon's brother
Source: Boston.com
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 10:18:40 -0700 | political-news
Ill. (AP) Special delivery from Northwestern University to France: a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte's brother. The suburban Chicago school has planned a ceremony this week to hand over a letter dated April 27, 1792, and signed by Joseph Bonaparte...Graham Paul,...
Heart Rhythm Society 2013 Scientific Session Wrapup
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-12 09:30:30 -0700 | health-news
First, we should acknowledge the efforts by the Heart Rhythm Society to limit the bling at the meeting. There were fewer large advertising displays, trucks driving through the streets with ads on top of them, and late-night rendezvous. Heart Rhythm...
Workhorse Software Announces New Hire Heidi Feiler as Support Manager
Source: PR Newswire
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 10:51:28 -0700 | technology-news
Feiler brings to Workhorse a wealth of experience in the media software industry highlighted by seven years at The Nielsen Company in where she served as Midwest and senior Midwest account manager. At Nielsen, Feiler was the principal account manager...
The FDA Azithromycin Softshoe and Why It Matters
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-04 06:37:46 -0700 | health-news
While I have been quite critical of the conclusions drawn by Ray, et al. before, I was even more surprised by the Drug Safety Communication for azithromycin issued by the FDA that basically said: "any time a patient has a...
EKG Du Jour #31: A Case of Chest Pain
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 13:32:50 -0700 | health-news
NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine ...The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly the those of the author(s) and should not be...
Dr. John M: Autonomy vs beneficence? Shared decision-making in the patient considered for an ICD
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 09:11:46 -0700 | health-news
Shared decision-making in the patient considered for an ICD "Convincing physicians to engage in shared decision-making is a complex undertaking, as physicians may believe that they are following clinical practice guidelines in strongly recommending an ICD to eligible patients.
Story Lines
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-28 12:08:58 -0700 | health-news
Doctors who sacrifice and give tirelessly to their patients are our storybook ideal; what every American loves to envision. But we should also acknowledge that there is another story line: that many physicians are deeply concerned with the realities of...
A Few Words About this Week's Block-HF Trial
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 15:39:18 -0700 | health-news
It is not surprising that biventricular pacing improves the LV volume index (biventricular pacing improves the coordination of contraction of the medial and lateral LV walls by its very physiology). But the as far as heart failure and death as subsets of...
Technorati's Social Media Update 2013
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 10:20:58 -0700 | technology-news
Blogs (29%), Google + (26%), Twitter (16%), LinkedIn (5%) ( Heh, glad to see blogs ranked neck-and-neck with kitty videos ) Online services shared the most: (1) Facebook (57%), (2) YouTube (40%), Blogs (26%), News Sites (26%), Google + (25%),...
The American Board of Internal Medicine Gets Sued Over MOC
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 07:09:21 -0700 | health-news
Defendent's program. Defendent's program is a money-making , self-enrichment scheme that reduces the supply of hospital-based physicians and decreases the time physicians have available for patients, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act." Read the whole complaint because there's...
The American College of Cardiology Gets a New CEO
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 21:04:59 -0700 | health-news
O Since when does a pharmaceutical executive become CEO of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)?...Call me crazy, but does this strike anyone else as strange? Are physicians now officially incapable of leading the ACC or any other major professional doctor organization? Have we...
Northwestern University students to pen soap scripts
Source: United Press International
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 07:43:11 -0700 | entertainment-news
Image Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on February 17, 2012. Ill., April 23 (UPI) -- The winners of Northwestern University's Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival will get to write episodes of the U.S. soap opera "All My Children,"...
To Burn or Freeze During Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation, That Is the Question
Source: Dr. Wes
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 13:11:46 -0700 | health-news
Mandrola points out, although the incidence of this deadly complication is rare, there is still much we don't know about this procedure's long-term safety, especially as newly-engineered cryoballoons enter the EP community's ablation toolkits. Careful long-term assessment of this technology's...
Menlo Park's Phil Taylor mans one of sports journalism's elite positions
Source: Peninsula Press
Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 13:10:22 -0700 | sports-news
This was the mid-90s, so the Taylors were still a one-computer household. Eight-year-old Emily sat at the old desktop in the living room and typed away, giving life to whatever wild fairy tale crossed her mind...At the conclusion of each...
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