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Friday, January 22, 2010

eMedicine Medical Reference from WebMD


I've had some people asking for recommendations for a medical reference product that can be accessed anywhere. One option is eMedicine from WebMD. eMedicine touts its 8,000 professional contributors, and 6000 topics.

New eMedicine articles undergo several levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD prior to publication. Sources for subsequent revisions of articles include the author, a physician or PharmD member of the editorial board, user-driven feedback, and systematically reviewed medical literature.

eMedicine has been around for over 10 years and in 2006 was bought by WebMD, a provider of consumer health information. WebMD is like reading a mainstream health magazine, with seamlessly integrated ads, and it's advertised on national television, so your patients have probably looked at it.

eMedicine is aimed at physicians, and is paired with Medscape, a site with medical news, selected full-text journal articles, and cme, and a company also purchased by WebMD.

Registration may be required to access all features, but there is much material available free of charge, though with integrated advertising.

It's not too late to get vaccinated for influenza!

Get Vaccinated… It's National Influenza Vaccination Week. www.flu.gov

Occupational Health still has H1N1 vaccine available for:

  • Staff
  • Patients WITH A DOCTORS ORDER.

Presidential Proclamation for National Influenza Vaccination Week

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Free CME on Improved FDA Drug Labeling thru 11-22-10

The FDA is offering 1.0 AMA Category 1 credits for

An Introduction to the Improved FDA Prescription Drug Labeling

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

  • Describe prescription drug labeling and related FDA requirements.
  • Describe the history of the drug labeling initiative.
  • Describe the staged implementation schedule for the revised prescription drug labeling.
  • Describe the major content and format changes to prescription drug labeling and the rationale for the changes.
  • Describe other related FDA electronic labeling initiatives.