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Medical Defence Union's New Scottish Recruits Help Meet Doctors' Demands For Medico-Legal Advice, UK
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has recruited three new medico-legal advisers in Scotland, bringing its team of experts north of the border to nine - its biggest ever team in the country.
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Study Finds Many Newborns Of South Asian And East Asian Descent Misclassified As Underweight At Birth
Babies of East Asian and South Asian descent are between two and three times more likely to be misclassified as underweight at birth when compared to their Canadian counterparts, according to a study led by St. Michael"s Hospital physician Dr. Joel Ray. Dr. Ray and a team of researchers, who developed the first-ever sex-specific birth weight curves for these ethnic groups, suggest the need to consider differences across ethnic groups to reduce parental stress and use of health-care res associated with labelling an infant as underweight, or "small for gestational age" at birth.
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Boston Globe Examines U.S. Global Health Strategy
The Boston Globe examines the U.S. strategy towards global health aid. "President George W. Bush scored major advances in his administration"s worldwide campaign against AIDS," and "[t]he Obama administration believes it can leverage Bush"s successes into an assault against a much broader array of diseases that afflict poor countries," writes the Globe.
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Report Highlights Importance Of GPs, Australian Medical Association

A new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare/University of Sydney report on General Practice highlights the critical role GPs play in keeping the Australian community healthy, AMA Federal President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today. The AIHW and University of Sydney today released General practice in Australia, health priorities and policies 1998 to 2008, which is based on data from the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program. Dr Pesce said the report showed that GPs were spending an increasing proportion of their time with older patients and managing chronic medical conditions. "GPs are spending more time checking for - and managing - diabetes, blood pressure, high-cholesterol and depression. They are also taking a lead role in tackling type 2 diabetes, cancer and other serious medical conditions," Dr Pesce said. "Governments must ensure GPs have the support and res they need to care for an ageing population with increasing rates of chronic disease. "We need more GP training places, extra support for practice nurses who work in GP-led teams and investment in medical equipment and information technology for medical practices." The report showed an increasing number of patients were overweight or obese and more people were requesting check-ups. "GPs already undertake a lot of preventative activity despite a lack of support for this in the Medicare Benefits Schedule. The Government needs to recognise this work and provide more support for longer patient consultations," Dr Pesce said. The report was released as the AMA was gearing up to mark GP Week from 19 - 25 July. Australian Medical Association


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