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Jul 30, 2010
Space Coast Medicine and Healthy Living
PRESS RELEASE

RENAISSANCE DOC - It’s impossible not to like Dr. Stephen Badolato, president of the Brevard County Medical Society, and Brevard Physicians Network member. Caring, energetic,engaged, he’s any patient’s perfect physician. No wonder the man has been listed in the Guide of America’s Top Physicians. Dr. Badolato is an assistant clinical faculty member of Florida State University’s medical school, where he serves as instructor of non-operative orthopedics and sports medicine.

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Jul 26, 2010
Health and Medicine Week
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According to recent research from the United States, "Studies have shown that labor occurs primarily in the night/morning hours. Recently, we identified the human myometrium as a target for melatonin (MEL), the neuroendocrine output signal coding for circadian night." Study published by College of Medicine Post Doctrine Scholar, J.T. Sharkey and his colleagues.

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Jul 26, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat
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The Capital Polio Association celebrated the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Sunday by honoring a humanitarian and stalwart in the medical field. Dr. Charlotte Maguire, 92, was honored with a "Spirit of ADA" award for outstanding service for her work, not only with children with disabilities, but for her work with those affected by polio, a debilitating virus that often causes paralysis of limbs and lung function. Dr. Charlotte Maguire is a cherished College of Medicine benefactor.

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Jul 24, 2010
Medical News Today
Florida State University Center: Critically ill patients' wishes should be doctor's orders
PRESS RELEASE

The Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law at the College of Medicine is currently at work coordinating efforts across Florida to promote the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) paradigm, a program that is intended to ensure that a patient's wishes regarding life-sustaining treatments are known, communicated and honored across all health care settings.

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Jul 23, 2010
Drug Week
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Living wills and advance directives often do not ensure that dying patients receive the kind of medical care
they want - or don't want - to endure. Now an effort being coordinated by the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law at the college hopes to improve communication and produce a clear set of medical orders for a dying patient's care.

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Jul 19, 2010
Albany Area Chamber of Commerce
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Dr. Paul Payne, who graduated from the college in 2006 and the college's Sacred Heart Hospital OB-GYN Residency in June, has joined OB-GYN Associates at the Veranda in Albany, Ga.  Payne started the college's medical student chapter of the Florida Rural Health Association, and he is one of the first two College of Medicine Alumni to also complete the Sacred Heart residency.

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Jul 15, 2010
Orlando Sentinel
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The health section of the Orlando Sentinel covers the primary-care shortage crisis in this article about how few current medical students are specializing in primary-care, usually due to financial issues.  Two of the College of Medicine's main goals are to encourage more students toward the primary-care field and to train more primary-care doctors for the national (and especially Florida's) growing population.

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Jul 12, 2010
Health Canal
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Researchers at the college are looking for 40-45 African-American caregivers to complete a study on effectively reducing depression in adult caregivers of dementia patients.  The caregivers will receive up to $100 for their time, and judging from the early results, will benefit psychologically, physically and spiritually.

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Jul 11, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat
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Residents enrolled in the Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program have chosen to stay in the Tallahassee area to practice, which is good news the Big bend for Florida, given the nation-wide primary physician shortage. Some of the college's alumni graduating from the program include Drs. Robin Albritton, Garrett Chumney, Josef Plum and Brandy Willis; Tallahassee clerkship faculty member Dr. Donald Zorn is the program's director.

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Jul 10, 2010
Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week
PRESS RELEASE

To increase the flow of information between the medical and law fields, the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law is producing an online journal dedicated to sharing research and collaborating on articles dealing with touchy, complicated topics. Medical-Legal Studies is already a part of the Social Science Research Legal Scholarship Network online (www.ssrn.com). Article also appeared in: Drug Week [pdf]

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