Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Oct 19, 2011, 9:25 am
Blog Post by Malcolm G. Munro MD, FACOG, FRCS(c), Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Gynecologic Services, Kaiser Permanante, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA I frequently am approached by surgically ambitious resi...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 13, 2011, 4:23 pm
‘I love the two levels of reading you can do if you get a question wrong. And, importantly, it’s made by anaesthetists for anaesthetists…a brilliant resource.’ Alan Race, anaesthesia trainee FRCAQ.com, the new online testing resource for the Primary FRCA exam, is the only website offering SB...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Aug 30, 2011, 10:19 am
Cambridge Medicine has launched a dynamic new self-testing website for trainee anaesthetists – www.FRCAQ.com What is FRCAQ.com? It is an online revision resource of over 1,450 questions, answers and explanations in anaesthesia for trainees preparing for the Primary FRCA MCQ exam. Four different te...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Aug 24, 2011, 11:41 am
Blog Post by Malcolm G. Munro MD, FACOG, FRCS(c), Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Gynecologic Services, Kaiser Permanante, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA Among the varied causes of the symptom of heavy menstru...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jul 6, 2011, 10:30 am
Blog Post  by Malcolm G. Munro MD, FACOG, FRCS(c), Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Gynecologic Services, Kaiser Permanante, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA When abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) occurs unrelate...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jun 28, 2011, 11:02 am
Blog Post By Vicki E. Noble MD, RDMS, FACEP is Director, Division of Emergency Ultrasound, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Over the last 15 years, there has been a seismic shift in how and when ultraso...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jun 21, 2011, 10:05 am
Blog post by Jean-Adolphe Rondal, Ph.D., jeanarondal@skynet.be, Emeritus Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Liège, Belgium, Juan Perera, Ph.D., asnimo@telefonica.net, Director of the Center Principe de Asturias, University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain,  and Donna SPIKE...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jun 8, 2011, 10:12 am
Blog Post  by Malcolm G. Munro MD, FACOG, FRCS(c), Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Gynecologic Services, Kaiser Permanante, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA In the reproductive years, many women with abnormal ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - May 26, 2011, 11:33 am
Austin, TX, May 18, 2011 – GYLO (GetYa Learn On, LLC) and Cambridge University Press today announced a partnership to produce multiple medical books as interactive apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices.  Initially, three of Cambridge’s key texts for medical trainees and practitioners w...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - May 6, 2011, 7:01 am
Blog Post by Mr Vish Bhattacharya MB BS, FRCS (Glas & Edin), FRCS (Gen Surg) Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK. Vascular surgery has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. The major emphasis has been on prevention of vascular disease and on mi...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Apr 19, 2011, 10:37 am
Blog post by Rudolf N. Cardinal, clinical research associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, and honorary specialist registrar, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, and Edward T. Bullmore, professor of psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Psychosis originally mea...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Mar 28, 2011, 6:06 am
Blog Post  by Malcolm G. Munro MD, FACOG, FRCS(c), Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Gynecologic Services, Kaiser Permanante, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA Recently a young healthy woman presented with acute ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Mar 25, 2011, 8:00 am
March 22, 2011 — In response to the crisis in Japan, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hosted a conference call for clinicians to answer questions about treating radiation injuries in US travelers returning from Japan. During the hour-long Clinician Outreach and Communication...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Mar 23, 2011, 12:34 pm
 March 17, 2011 — The devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture on March 11 have caused a cascade of health and safety problems for survivors, including possible exposure to radiation from the region’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Mar 22, 2011, 10:32 am
Blog Post by Prabodh, K. Gupta, MD, F.I.A.C. and Zubair W. Baloch, MD, PhD. According to the great pathologist of our century Dr. Rosai “It is my contention that as of today there is no technique in all medicine that provides so much information so quickly and for such little cost as the H&E tech...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Mar 8, 2011, 7:14 am
Blog post by Metin Basoglu, Professor of Psychiatry, & Ebru Salcioglu, Associate Professor of Psychology and Research Associate, Trauma Studies, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London & Istanbul Center for Behavior Research and Therapy (ICBRT / DABA...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Feb 28, 2011, 5:00 am
Blog post by Crispin Jenkinson, Professor of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Michele Peters, Research Officer,  Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health, University o...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Feb 21, 2011, 9:27 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA Another reason why it would important to prevent delirium is the risk for violence patients can have for themselves and others. Patients who would not otherwise be violent can sometimes become violent when exposed to medications with which they�...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Feb 17, 2011, 4:53 am
Blog Post By Solomon Benatar, University of Cape Town & Gillian Brock Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our respon...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Feb 15, 2011, 4:32 am
Blog Post  by Malcolm G. Munro MD, FACOG, FRCS(c), Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Gynecologic Services, Kaiser Permanante, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA Many medical students, registrars/residents, primary...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Feb 7, 2011, 5:55 am
Blog Post by Clive Lewis, Andrew Klein, Nick Lees and Stephen Webb, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB23 3RE The field of transplantation has spawned more new specialties and Nobel prize winners than any other in medicine. Christiaan Barnard’sperformed the ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Feb 3, 2011, 5:18 am
Blog Post by George A. Mashour MD, PhD, Director, Division of Neuroanesthesiology and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery,  University of Michigan Neuroanesthesia is a subspecialty of anesthesiology that focuses on the perioperative care of patients undergoing surgery of t...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jan 31, 2011, 5:07 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA I read with interest an article from The Hospitalist, August 2008 discussing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement for hospitals to submit information on Medicare claims regarding whether a list of specific diagnoses we...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jan 24, 2011, 8:52 am
Blog Post by David Gardner, Professor of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University Read also Cardiovascular Disease responsible for shorter life expectancy in people with mental illness The health care received by people living with a major mental illness (outside of mental health care) is less frequent, of...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jan 17, 2011, 7:19 am
Blog Post by Professor Graham Burton, Director of the Centre for Trophoblast Research, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience   Developmental programming is a relatively new area of medicine but one that has a potentially profound impact on the way we approach and treat chronic diseases. P...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jan 10, 2011, 5:50 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA  At the annual Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) meeting this year held on Marco Island, Florida, I heard Dr. Theodore Stern call Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) a “supraspecialty”. Usually it’s described as a subspecialty.  I couldn�...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jan 5, 2011, 9:26 am
Blog Post by David Gardner, Professor of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University People living with a major mental illness have a quite notable shorter life expectancy, and the primary reason for this is surprising to some. The risk of death due to suicide is about 15-30 times greater in people with schizo...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jan 4, 2011, 3:52 am
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 10...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Dec 23, 2010, 5:23 am
Managing your weight is particularly relevant at this time of year, especially if you are amongst the millions of people who tend to over do it a bit in December.  It has been estimated that over the two days of Christmas, the average person eats over 11,000 calories. That’s almost three times th...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Dec 20, 2010, 5:16 am
  1a Blog Post by Peter M. Cummings, MD is Medical Examiner and Director of Forensic Neuropathology, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA. There are few areas within forensic pathology that generate more debate and controversy than the subject of infl...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Dec 16, 2010, 7:11 am
Blog Post by Michael Casher, MD, Director, Psychiatry Adult Inpatient Program, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School Inpatient psychiatry may yet join consultation psychiatry (psychosomatic medicine) as a subspecialty within American psychiat...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Dec 6, 2010, 6:33 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA  I was fascinated by the blog “The Mind in Modern Medicine” by E.S. Krishnamoorthy, et al, posted 10/21/2010. As a Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) specialist, I’m often consulted by neurologists for help managing hysteria, nowadays called con...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Nov 29, 2010, 5:39 am
Blog Post by Kiat Tsong Tan, Postgraduate Fellow, Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I never cease to be amazed by the rate of developments in radiology. In the course of the last ten years, radiologists have evolved from doctors who pr...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Nov 22, 2010, 4:30 am
Blog Post by Gab Kovacs, International Medical Director, Monash IVF, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Toorak, Victoria, Australia The approach to subfertility has certainly changed in the last few decades. Couples’ expectations have changed, and the community now acc...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Nov 15, 2010, 4:11 am
Blog Post by Wendy Erber , Consultant Haematologist and Clinical Director, Haemo-Oncology Diagnostic Service, Haematology Department, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge The diagnosis of haematological malignancies is complex, expensive and evolving rapidly. There is a myriad of diagnostic test...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Nov 9, 2010, 8:58 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA  In a recent blog I mentioned the “wailing wall” of strange and difficult to answer psychiatry consultation questions sometimes asked by our non-psychiatry colleagues from internal medicine and surgery (blog post Amos 10/14/2010). Questions...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Oct 21, 2010, 11:46 am
Blog Post by Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy, (ESK) MBBS, MD, DCN (Lond), PhD (Lond), FRCP (Lond, Edin & Glas), MAMS (India), FIMSA, FIPS, an internationally recognized as a leader in the brain-mind interface, the field of Neuropsychiatry. Founder Director of The Neuropsychiatry Group It is curious...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Oct 14, 2010, 10:06 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA   What I wanted to do as I took over the psychiatry consultation service this month was to highlight the usefulness of our newly published book Psychosomatic Medicine: An Introduction to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.  I planned to refer to...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Oct 5, 2010, 4:00 am
 ESHRE warmly and proudly welcomes today’s announcement that the Cambridge reproductive biologist Robert Edwards has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Bob was a founder member of ESHRE and became the Society’s first chairman in 1985. The following year, under his drive and direction, ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 27, 2010, 9:30 am
Blog Post by Mr Tim Case MPhil MA (Cantab) Medical Student, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2EW, UK, and Dr Stephen T Webb MB BCh BAO FRCA EDIC, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB23...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 24, 2010, 6:25 am
Blog Post by Jean-Pierre Unger, physician, professor of public health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Red carpets were put away. The MDG midnight mass ended over renewed, solemn commitments. But the by now near failure of the MDGs in health can be read as the chronicle of a death ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 20, 2010, 9:38 am
Blog Post by Jenny Ridge, Academic and Professional Marketing, Medicine, Cambridge University Press On the 14th September, the British Medical Association hosted their annual Book Awards at their head office in Tavistock Square, London. Several of the medical editorial and sales and marketing team a...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 13, 2010, 5:33 am
Joy Henry is a blogger for An Apple A Day and a writer specializing in online nursing degrees for Guide to Healthcare Schools. As humans evolve and the world they live in changes, the types and prevalence of disease they get changes as well. And while both environment and genes can be responsible fo...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 6, 2010, 4:50 am
Blog Post by James J. Amos MD, University of Iowa, USA   Recently our Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation Psychiatry (PM/CLP) service received a request to evaluate a patient on the Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) inpatient unit. There are no worries about revealing personally identifying charac...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Sep 1, 2010, 9:19 am
Mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorders, addiction and schizophrenia are the core challenge of most health care systems around the world. In the EU alone, each year 27% of the total adult population – this corresponds to 83 Million citizens – suffer from mental disorders. Depress...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Aug 26, 2010, 10:57 am
Blog Post by Dr Darcy M Pearson FRCA, Specialty Trainee in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, UK, Dr Stephen T Webb MB BCh BAO FRCA EDIC, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Aug 23, 2010, 4:16 am
Blog Post by Jessie Aw, Neuroradiology Fellow at Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia, and  John Curtis, Radiologist Consultant, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, University Hospital Aintree, UK The British summer has arrived and with that, some sunshine. That’s all you need as a radiology ...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Aug 11, 2010, 4:19 am
Blog Post by Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD, e.vermetten@umcutrecht.nl Associate Professor Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Traumatic events of the earliest years of infancy and childhood are not lost but, like a child’s footprints in wet cement, are often preserved l...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Aug 2, 2010, 7:25 am
Blog Post by Jay B. Brodsky, MD and Harry J.M. Lemmens, MD, PhD, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305 We are all aware that the world is experiencing an obesity epidemic. Given the great numbers of morbidly obese patients currently undergoing surgery and the predicted incr...
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Jenny Ridge posted an article on Cambridge Medicine - Jul 28, 2010, 6:10 am
Our marketing and editorial teams explain how Cambridge Medicine covers are designed, how and when authors and editors should contribute to this process, and what we think makes a particularly good front cover. What makes a good cover A good cover design should be relevant to the content of the book...
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