Formation of American Board of Hospital Medicine

American Board of Physician Specialties

Announces Formation of

American Board of Hospital Medicine

Hospital Medicine Recognized as a Growing Medical Specialty

http://www.informz.net/aapsga/archives/archive_709904.html

Doctors Will Make Web Calls in Hawaii

The system, which links patients with doctors online, is available to all Hawaii residents


http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20081204_HMSA_set_to_launch_24-hour_Web_alternative_office_visit_in_January.html


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/technology/internet/06health.html


Doctors Express Concern About Online Care :
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http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2867&Itemid=166

Community Health Fair - Fri, Jan 9th, 12p-3p

Medical students have assembled health screenings and information from all over O'ahu to offer at this year's "Celebrate Health" Community Health Fair from 12-3 p.m. this Friday, January 9.

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and Hawai'i Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona have accepted invitations to speak as the health fair kicks off at 12 p.m., in the school's Medical Education Building Lobby.

New to the islands, food retailer WHOLE FOODS will offer nutritional samples, VITAMIN SHOPPE will have its experts on hand.

A blood drive will be held simultaneously. At the fair's self-help corner, you can receive free screenings for:

• blood pressure
  
• glucose
  
• body mass index
• flu shots

Other planned activities include featured motivational speaker, Dr. Terry Shintani, Associate Professor of Medicine at UH's medical school and author of "The Hawaii Diet," and "Eat More, Weigh Less Cookbook". Shintani is also a trained healer in Native Hawaiian medicine.

Specialists from the on campus "Wellness Center" will discuss treatments in complementary and alternative medicine which are offered to the public by appointment at the Center. Those services include acupuncture, massage therapy and ayuverdic (traditional Indian) medicine.

The "Celebrate Health" community health fair is open to everyone, and will run from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., Friday January 9, at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Library computers will be unavailable for public use.

Origin of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus

Origin of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus: a comparative genomic analysis.
Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2008 Jun;47(3):1100-10. Epub 2008 Feb 14.

For UHM use only


Title: The devil’s flu : the world’s deadliest influenza epidemic and the scientific hunt for the virus that caused it / Pete Davies.
Publisher:
New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2000
Location:
UH Manoa: Hamilton
Call Number: RA644.I6 D38 2000