Greening Your Practice Will Save Green Environmentally Friendly Operations Benefit Budget, Employees and Patients When the University of Florida in Gainesville built its new freestanding Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute five years ago, the practice made the decision to be eco-friendly. It was a good move, both for environmental sustainability and for the practice’s pocketbook, says the institute’s administrator, Leslie Jebson. Click Here for More ... SHARON H. FITZGERALD

Disruptive Behavior is Bad for Patients Survey Reveals Troubling Conduct in the Healthcare Environment Being a good member of a team means playing well with others, but a recent survey by the American College of Physician Executives reveals that disruptive behavior by professional members of healthcare teams compromises patient safety, undermines cooperation and makes going to work a miserable experience. Click Here for More ... SHARON H. FITZGERALD

Mapping Out a Plan of Attack The Cancer Genome Atlas Provides Repository for Data, Discoveries The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a comprehensive effort to create a data repository for the discoveries and findings of more than 150 of the nation’s top researchers who are working in concert on specific cancer types. These scientists, who are based out of more than two dozen renowned institutions, are systematically mapping genomic changes to create a cancer atlas accessible to all who are searching for better methods to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Click Here for More ... CINDY SANDERS

Is the AMA Imploding? Insider Says No; National Association “Simply Entering a Cycle” Last fall, the only state medical association left standing beside the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to de-unify. The move signaled possible unrest among the nation’s physicians, many of whom believe the AMA isn’t lobbying in their best interest concerning sweeping healthcare reform under the Obama Administration.  Click Here for More ... LYNNE JETER

Tricky Business of High-Profile Patients The Sometimes Unexpected “Collateral Damage” At the beginning of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, rumors were swirling that golf pro Tiger Woods had checked into Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Miss., for the treatment of sex addiction, and that a photo substantiating the story was worth several hundred thousand dollars. In response to the media alert, black tarps were placed over walkways and annexes at the South Mississippi health facility. Click Here for More ... LYNNE JETER

Making Headway in Brain Cancer TCGA Data Generates New Findings for Glioblastoma Multiforme Through the work of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), researchers have confirmed the most common form of malignant brain cancer in adults, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), isn’t one disease as once believed but is, instead, four distinct molecular subtypes. Click Here for More ... CINDY SANDERS