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Jan 06, 2011
www.oneindia.in
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The study on intimate education revealed that around 1,605 parents of primarily white, school-aged children in Minnesota found that kids should get this knowledge from their parents while another percent of parents felt that they should learn about the intimate education at school. Apart from this, most parents are confirmed that their kids already know about the intimate education with the help of their friends and the usage of the latest technology. Also featured in Health Behavior News Service [pdf] Also featured in The Times of India [pdf] Also featured in Bloomberg Businesweek [pdf] Also featured in ParentDish [pdf

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Jan 06, 2011
ABC News
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Marshall Kapp, director of the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law at Florida State University is featured in this article which covers the case of Norman Butler. Butler, a retired Washington state optometrist with Alzheimer's disease, was bilked him out of more than $2 million by a woman he met on the internet.

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Jan 02, 2011
TCPalm.com
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While most medical school students spend their third and fourth years in large academic hospitals, Gondela, 25, is one of 19 third-year and 14 fourth-year Florida State University students making rounds through clinical rotations in doctors' offices and community hospitals across the Treasure Coast.

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Dec 22, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat and Tallahassee.com
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Florida State University and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare are well on the way toward establishing an internal medicine residency program. TMH, which already offers a residency in family medicine for medical school graduates, announced its formal partnership with FSU in August. FSU is the institutional sponsor for the new program — the first new residency that the 10-year-old College of Medicine will sponsor.

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Dec 17, 2010
www.FiercePharma.com
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The American Medical Student Association gave its stamp of approval to most medical schools, saying that they finally have instituted "strong" conflicts-of-interest policies. As Pharmalot notes, AMSA gave a perfect score to two schools: University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and Florida State University College of Medicine. And it hailed onethird of schools for their training students to recognize how industry marketing can affect their judgment and for teaching them to consider potential conflicts.

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Dec 15, 2010
AAP Med Student News
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The FSU College of Medicine's Pediatric Interest Group (PIG) raised $795 at their annual "Dreams Come True" wine and cheese fundraiser. The event is consistently a great success and is very popular among the students and faculty.

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Dec 15, 2010
Benzinga.com
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The majority of U.S. medical schools have implemented strong conflict-of-interest policies this year, according to the 2010 American Medical Student Association (AMSA) PharmFree Scorecard. The Scorecard finds that 79 of 152 medical schools (52%) now receive a grade of A or B for their policies governing pharmaceutical industry interaction with medical school faculty and students. Only two medical schools received a perfect score for limiting access of sales representatives – the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and Florida State University College of Medicine.

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Dec 14, 2010
med.fsu.edu
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Press Release 
The Florida State University College of Medicine on Wednesday will unveil an exhibit related to the historic passage of Medicare and recognize retired Tallahassee physician Charles Mathews, who donated several items.
 
Mathews attended the first meeting on Medicare at the White House with President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 and recently donated the materials provided for that meeting. Other items on display are the pen President Johnson used to sign the Medicare bill, and historic photos and documents from the Claude Pepper Papers, housed at the Claude Pepper Library. The items will be permanently housed at the university’s Claude Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy. 
 
In addition to Mathews, others scheduled to participate in the unveiling ceremony are College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty; Dr. Ken Brummel-Smith, chair of the Department of Geriatrics; and representatives from the Pepper Institute. The event will take place:
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15
 
10 A.M.
 
FSU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE ATRIUM
 
TALLAHASSEE

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Dec 09, 2010
Computers, Networks & Communications
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The University of Florida and the Florida State University College of Medicine jointly received $600,000 from the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida to strengthen research, education and service efforts in public health and to boost economic growth.

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Nov 25, 2010
Health News Florida
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The Department of Health faces a March 1 deadline for releasing a wide-ranging report that includes justifying its divisions and recommending ways to reduce and restructure parts of the agency. Lawmakers required the report this spring, after a tumultuous legislative session in which House leaders targeted the department for revamping --- and shrinking.

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