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Question?: What is the common term researcher use to characterize the stain of mice with a predictable and inherited genetic “defect”?

* Professor Alain Einthoven of Stanford is once again in the Health Care Insurance spotlight.  In the current NEJM, he turns to the Netherlands as a mixed model for mandated coverage.

* The NEJM also covers stem cell research and the “knockout” laboratory mouse model for cellular biology research, the foundation of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.

*  A NEJM Review Article by Italian authors on platlets and vascular inflammation is conprehensive with a PubMed linked bibliography.  A 12 minute instructional multmedia video from UOHSU on the proper techniquie for subclavian line placement is a valuble training aide. 

* An ABC News Roundtable of HealthPolicy experts ranks Electronic Medical Records EMRs as being in the top 5 reforms for improve the efficiency and quallity of the American system of delivering medical services.  Surprisingly, the VA’s EMR system ?MUMPS? based system is used as a model. As noted, the VA is largely a captive system with long term patients who are geographically dispersed.

In addition,

The weekly Thursday morning OB-GYN rounds at Highland Hospital, part of the URMC complex was a WebCast with a partners from a Rochester law fire presenting steps that individual can prudently take to protect themselves from some forms of identity theft when using electronic means to make a variety financial transactions.

Answer:  “Knockout”

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