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...going to college. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that a Notre Dame student tested positive for swine flu - school officials in Indiana said the undergraduate had not been to Mexico recently - and the University of Delaware has started screening students in a special clinic after four cases of influenza that meet probable definitions for swine flu popped on campus...
...recent changes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology Department’s scheduling policies, students looking for help with computer troubleshooting on Saturdays and Sundays are no longer able to take advantage of the Science Center’s computer clinic. Yet according to Noah S. Selsby ’94, a spokesperson for FAS IT, the cuts in weekend hours resulted not from FAS’s economic woes, but rather from the results of a statistical evaluation of the Clinic’s weekend traffic, which indicated an average of only three client-calls...
...mentioned by The Crimson, first-year medical students have weekly “clinics” during which physicians present patients to provide clinical context to basic science. During one such clinic, Dr. Julian Adams—the lead developer of the drug bortezomib—described the drug’s scientific discovery and clinical development. Dr. Richardson then interviewed a patient who was being successfully treated with bortezomib-based therapy, providing a very human perspective to the presentation. The discussion of the patient’s experience with both the disease and treatment was inspirational and relevant...
Following the clinic session, students worked with our course director and dean of medical education to create formal rules on lecturer disclosure. The following week, the HMS Curriculum Committee created new policies requiring lecturers to disclose conflicts of interest when they are relevant to the lecture material. This process demonstrates how collaboration between faculty, students, and administration can lead to swift institutional changes...
...group of kidney disease patients from around the country. Unable to afford the cost of treatment on their own, they banded together to purchase used dialysis machines that they operated themselves in a residence in the capital's suburbs. The publicity drove local authorities to shut down the illegal clinic. While the patients were offered free treatment at local hospitals, for some it was hardly a relief. One patient named Chen Bingzhi told the Beijing News, "We're afraid that after we've gone home for a little while, will there be anyone who cares about us anymore...