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Reports From The White House And Kaiser Family Foundation Address Health Care Disparities
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and White House Health Czar Nancy Ann DeParle held a discussion of minority health issues at the White House yesterday, where Sebelius "said the Obama administration is committed to addressing the "alarming disparity in the delivery of quality health care"," which she said was necessary to lower costs, the Associated Press reports. The White House also "issued a summary report on minority health care showing that African-Americans are seven times more likely as whites to have HIV/AIDS, that blacks and Hispanics have diabetes rates nearly twice as high as whites, and that black men are 50 percent more likely than whites to have prostate cancer" (Evans, 6/9).
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Sunbeds (UV Tanning Beds), And UV Radiation Moved Up To Highest Cancer Risk Category By International Agency For Research On Cancer (IARC)
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has moved sunbeds (UV tanning beds) up to the highest cancer risk category-group 1-"carcinogenic to humans". The use of sunlamps and sunbeds was until now classified as "probably carcinogenic to humans" (group 2A). IARC also moved ultraviolet radiation into group 1. These and other findings are revealed in a Special Report in the August edition of The Lancet Oncology, produced by Dr Fatiha El Ghissassi and her colleagues, IARC, Lyon, France, on behalf of the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer Monograph Working Group.
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AAMC Applauds Benjamin As Choice For Surgeon General, USA
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement on President Obama"s nomination of Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., as U.S. surgeon general:
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Concerns As Start Of Medical Student Tsunami Reaches Intern Allocation, Australia

The east coast states, particularly Queensland and New South Wales, are the first to feel the pressure from the burgeoning medical student "tsunami" and students nationwide will be anxiously looking to these states as an indication of things to come. AMSA has long voiced concerns over intern training capacity and called for more res to establish sufficient quality intern places to accommodate the increase in medical graduates. 2009 is the start of the "tsunami" and it will be a telling indicator of what the next few years with even greater numbers will bring. AMSA President Tiffany Fulde commented, "Internship is a vital part of medical training. If students miss out on training places we cannot transform the increase in medical students into the increase in doctors that Australia so greatly needs." Already New South Wales has invoked a priority listing and locally trained international students will in not be allocated in the first round as in previous years. With 20 percent of medical students trained in Australia currently coming from overseas, this presents a significant change to medical education in Australia. Australian Medical Students Association


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