Peer Review Week 2017: Transparency in Review, and other innovations
At Springer Nature every week is Peer Review Week.
Each week our dedicated in-house editorial staff spend thousands of hours co-ordinating the process of peer review, to ensure and improve the quality of the scientific literature we publish and in doing so, advance discovery. We support our Editors in Chief, Editorial Board Members, Section Editors, peer reviewers and authors by providing guidance and systems to enable them to improve manuscripts. Furthermore, we’re trialing innovative new practices through small-scale pilots, while also exploring grander ideas such as the potential role of Artificial Intelligence.
But a...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Steven Inchcoombe Tags: Open Access Publishing Uncategorized open peer review peer review week Source Type: blogs
Peer Review Week 2017: Transparency in Review, and other innovations
Each week our dedicated in-house editorial staff spend thousands of hours co-ordinating the process of peer review, to ensure and improve the quality of the scientific literature we publish and in doing so, advance discovery. We support our Editors in Chief, Editorial Board Members, Section Editors, peer reviewers and authors by providing guidance and systems to enable them to improve manuscripts. Furthermore, we’re trialing innovative new practices through small-scale pilots, while also exploring grander ideas such as the potential role of Artificial Intelligence.
But as it’s so integral to what we do and the service ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Steven Inchcoombe Tags: Open Access Publishing Uncategorized open peer review peer review week Source Type: blogs
Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash
ConclusionRogoff raises many other interesting issues in his response, and trying to cover them all would make this article much too lengthy. His arguments are generally sophisticated and sometimes challenging, even when I disagree with him or believe he hasn’t adequately addressed my concerns. Our most fundamental difference remains our analysis of the State. Rogoff unreflectively adopts what Harold Demsetz characte rizes as the“nirvana” approach to public policy. This makes him far more optimistic than is justified about the overall benevolence and competence of governments, particularly in developed countries. H...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Source Type: blogs
How The Private Sector Can Empower Entrepreneurs To Improve Global Health
For health entrepreneurs and funders, successful collaboration requires a variety of ingredients that go beyond an initial monetary investment. Strong communication, alignment of objectives, and a long-term outlook are critical for any partnership to thrive. But these collaborations require something else, too—flexibility.
When it comes to global health, we have long known that no single company, foundation, or organization has all the answers. In the past, the private sector, including corporate-giving programs and foundations, relied largely on cash and product donations tied to immediate health needs or interventions....
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 2, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Caroline T. Roan and Zubaida Bai Tags: Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Africa entrepreneurs Global Health Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy Pfizer Foundation Pharma Source Type: blogs
“They helped erase Ebola in Liberia. Now #Liberia is...
"They helped erase Ebola in Liberia. Now #Liberia is erasing them. It has been more than a year since the deeply religious country embraced one of its biggest taboos — cremating bodies — to rein in the #Ebola pandemic. In that time, the majority of Liberians have started to move on. But some of the 30 young men who worked at the crematory pictured here are haunted by the work they did, burning close to 2,000 bodies. Ostracized by relatives and fellow countrymen, they now spend nights with alcohol or drugs, habits they said they acquired to get through the mass burnings. @samuel_aranda13 photographed 2 former workers at...
Source: Kidney Notes - December 9, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
After The Worst In Liberia And Sierra Leone
From January 19-27, we traveled to Liberia and Sierra Leone to engage with national leaders, health workers, citizens, non-governmental organization (NGO) implementers, international organizations, and United States, United Kingdom (UK), and other officials, including the African Union (AU), Chinese, and Cuban medical delegations. It was a moment of hope and nervous adjustment, as Ebola cases dropped suddenly and unexpectedly in Liberia, followed by reductions in Sierra Leone and Guinea.
We listened to the reflections of those who lived through and led the mobilization to roll back the unprecedented Ebola emergency, as it ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 9, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: J. Stephen Morrison and Cathryn Streifel Tags: All Categories Global Health Health Care Delivery Policy Prevention Public Health Workforce Source Type: blogs
How Firestone controlled Ebola virus disease in Liberia
When the first case of Ebola virus infection was detected at the Firestone Liberia, Inc. rubber tree plantation in March of this year, the company needed to prevent the virus from spreading among their 8,500 employees. The company established an incident management system, developed procedures for early detection of infection, enforced infection control guidelines, and provided different levels of management for contacts depending on their exposure. The company did a remarkable job of isolating and caring for patients and limiting transmission to health care workers and family members. A description of this program, just i...
Source: virology blog - October 21, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information ebola virus ebolavirus Firestone Liberia Inc. infection control rubber tree plantation viral virology Source Type: blogs
NBC Cameraman Infected with Ebola in Liberia
A cameraman just recently hired by NBC has come down with Ebola virus disease in Monrovia, Liberia. The 33 year old’s name is being withheld by request of his family.
He was reportedly starting work in a coverage report in conjunction with NBC medical expert Dr. Nancy Snyderman. The network is reportedly making arrangements to have him flown back to the United States for treatment.
Please also see Can Gingko and Turmeric Help Stop Ebola?
The post NBC Cameraman Infected with Ebola in Liberia appeared first on InsideSurgery Medical Information Blog. (Source: Inside Surgery)
Source: Inside Surgery - October 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Ebola Infectious Disease cameraman Liberia Monrovia Nancy Synderman NBC Source Type: blogs
Ebola virus enters the United States
Image credit: ViralZone
Given the extent of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, transport of an infected individual to the US was bound to happen. The case is an adult who had contact with an Ebola virus-infected woman in Liberia, then traveled to Dallas. He had no symptoms before arriving in the US and therefore did not likely transmit the infection to airplane passengers. He sought medical care on 26 Sep 2014 and was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital 28 Sep 2014 where he is currently under isolation. Samples sent to the CDC tested positive for Ebola virus. There are excellent summaries of the events...
Source: virology blog - October 2, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Events Information Dallas ebola virus ebolavirus epidemic hemorrhagic fever imported case Liberia viral virology Source Type: blogs
Why Liberians raided the Ebola clinic
“No Ebola in West Point” was the reported cry of the local crowd that attacked a quarantine center and freed patients in a township near Liberia’s capital. Their words signaled skepticism toward the Liberian government and disbelief in the spread of the Ebola virus.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 29, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kristin C. Prewitt Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Locked up at Mathari Hospital: Mental Health Treatment Lags in Kenya
Last week, the Associated Press reported on the deplorable state of Kenya’s only psychiatric hospital — where locking patients up and over-drugging them appear to be the norm. Things are so bad, recently 40 patients actually escaped from the hospital.
Mental health treatment continues to lag — sometimes quite severely — in under-developed countries throughout the world. Many countries in Africa continue to treat people with a mental illness as though they had leprosy or some other inexplicable, communicable disease.
Because so little is understood about mental illness by some of the peoples of thes...
Source: World of Psychology - May 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Medications Policy and Advocacy Psychotherapy Treatment Carter Center Chief Executive Officer Comatose Communicable Disease Countries In Africa Deplorable State Georgia Tech Janice Cooper Leprosy Liberian Government L Source Type: blogs
