Clinic explores novel approaches to improving health in Hispanic community

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Project Vida, a community health clinic in El Paso, Texas, is incorporating a variety of programs to improve the health status of the poor. In cooperation with a local hospital, Project Vida operates an outreach program to encourage families of children with noncritical conditions to use clinic services rather than the hospital emergency department. Clinic workers are able to address residents' basic medical needs as well as compounding social and economic issues. In June of 1995, a computer system will link patient records in the hospital with those in community clinics to enable information sharing. This will simplify the patient registration process, decrease costs, and coordinate medical care. To satisfy the nonmedical needs of the community, Project Vida has a thrift shop, a cooperative, and a preschool nursery and offers after school classes. In exchange for services, community residents pay nominal charges or volunteer their time.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Usage, Community health services, Poor, El Paso, Texas

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Tufts uses grant to design programs for drawing medical students into primary care careers

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Tufts University School of Medicine is one of 18 medical schools that have received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The purpose of the $150,000 grant is to finance a program to encourage medical students to practice primary care medicine. The number of primary care physicians in the US has significantly decreased, and fewer medical students are choosing this type of medical practice. Only 33% of the graduates from Tufts School of Medicine choose to practice primary care medicine, while a 50% rate is needed to fill the need for general practitioners. The program developed by Tufts has four focus areas: admissions, undergraduate coursework, residency and aid for starting practices. Tufts is also concerned with developing different ways to help medical students decrease their debts. Many students choose to specialize because they need to earn a higher income to pay off their student loans.

Methods, Finance, Donations, Physicians (General practice), General practitioners, Medical education, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Tufts University Medical School Center explores genetic defenses of bacteria, cancer cells

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Knowledge about the genetic defenses of bacteria and cancer cells may be used to develop new treatments. Growth inhibitors and other environmental stresses may affect the genes and gene products of bacteria and cancer cells. Researchers at Tufts University Medical School are studying different aspects of the genetic defenses of bacteria and cancer cells. One area is the development of resistance to tetracycline by bacteria. Resistance to tetracycline is programmed by several different bacterial genes. Another area is the regulation of multidrug resistance in both bacteria and cancer cells. Different types of genes may not be expressed until some type of environmental stress is encountered by these types of cells. The last area involves the genetic manipulation of soil bacteria so that they are capable of digesting toxic waste.

Research, Genetic aspects, Drug resistance in microorganisms, Microbial drug resistance, Bacteria, Cancer cells

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