An Open Letter to Larry Page and Eric Schmidt
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD
Guys:
You don’t know me, but I’m a physician and loyal gmail user writing for your help improving Google Scholar. As Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information” and you are Google’s CEO and Executive Chairman, respectively, I’ll bet you can make this happen.
As you probably know, academic medicine is focused on writing grants and publishing papers. Physician-researchers try to discover new knowledge but to do so we must apply for grants from the NIH or industry. In order to get a grant, we need to publish papers that will make the funders trust us with the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
If Poor Nations Want Economic Convergence and Capital Accumulation, They Need Good Policy
Daniel J. Mitchell
There’s a “convergence” theory in economics that suggests, over time, that “poor nations should catch up with rich nations.”
But in the real world, that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
There’s an interesting and informative article at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank which explores this theory. It asks why most low-income and middle-income nations are not “converging” with countries from the developed world.
…only a few countries have been able to catch up with the high per capita income levels of the developed world and stay there. By American living standards (as...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
Back from Africa
Accompanying the August issue is a supplement devoted to a collaboration between US and African medical schools, known as the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). I attended a conference in Maputo, Mozambique earlier this month at which many of these authors presented their work and discussed the next steps in the collaboration. Little did we know when planning the conference that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa would bring new urgency and relevance to the need for an educated workforce of physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and public health experts not only to address African health care needs but also ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 25, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: David P. Sklar, M.D. Tags: Featured From the Editor African medical schools global health graduate medical education Medical Education Partnership Initiative research rural health scholarship Source Type: blogs
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Source: Blog, Blah, Blah - December 4, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: sara Tags: 1 Guide Shop Qvc Online Source Type: blogs
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Source: Carin' For Karen - September 10, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Sidneyuhc Tags: Life in general Source Type: blogs
Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs Expand throughout the World
Over the last few months, several pharmaceutical companies have announced new donations and programs regarding vaccines, as well as increasing access to medicines for important diseases. Below is a summary of some of these activities and we will try to update the story as we come across other announcements.
GlaxoSmithKline
In late July, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it would increase its commitment to the GAVI Alliance to provide vaccines to developing countries, helping to protect millions more children against infectious diseases. Under this new agreement, GSK will provide an additional 240 million doses ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
How to revolutionize health prevention efforts around the world
Imagine your 7-year-old son’s face, abdomen, and legs begin to mysteriously swell one morning. Your initial reaction as a parent would likely be to worry first. However, your second instinct is probably to rush to your computer and search the Internet for what might be going on. This is easy enough for the roughly 72% of people in America who have a computer with Internet access in their homes.
Now, imagine you are no longer in America but in rural Mozambique. And, unfortunately, you are not part of the 3% of the population that has access to the Internet. Even if you were able to get online, let’s say that you are als...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 30, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Policy Nephrology Primary care Source Type: blogs
The check's in the mail
The following came as an FYI via an email list I'm on. Interesting, i'm not really surprised but why so much money for africa......unless there are resources there that the billionaires want. Of course they'd never some right out and admit that. It would be difficult to make blanket nuking africa with neutron bombs looks like an accident or an act of god. Neutron bombs are clean and neat, th resources are left intact whilst all the pesky savage wildlife is swept under the rug. Oh well we are broke but somewhere there is a bottomless cookie jar when it somes to buttereing up alien planets and foreign lands, especially when ...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - January 29, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
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south africa is such an interesting place. things happen here that surely can't happen anywhere else in the world. take illegal mining in barberton for example.
barberton has some of the oldest deep gold mines in the country, maybe even the world. the gold rush in barberton happened long before gold was even discovered in johannesburg. of course the massive amounts of gold in johannesburg drew all the prospectors away and left barberton as a tiny, insignificant lowveld town with ghost mines. as time went on, it once again became financially worthwhile for the mines to be opened, although really only on a much smaller leve...
Source: other things amanzi - July 6, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
rambo
south africa is such an interesting place. things happen here that surely can't happen anywhere else in the world. take illegal mining in barberton for example.barberton has some of the oldest deep gold mines in the country, maybe even the world. the gold rush in barberton happened long before gold was even discovered in johannesburg. of course the massive amounts of gold in johannesburg drew all the prospectors away and left barberton as a tiny, insignificant lowveld town with ghost mines. as time went on, it once again became financially worthwhile for the mines to be opened, although really only on a much smaller level....
Source: other things amanzi - July 6, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
Vita-Salute San Raffaele International MD Program. A New Opportunity For Your Medical Education In Milan, Italy.
In this changing world, opportunities periodically come forward in our lives that provide us with a new path to achieve our goals. For those of you that are considering becoming a doctor I want to share with you a new opportunity that you should consider for your medical education.One of the biggest problems in becoming a physician in the United States is costs. We have watched the cost and debt load for students attending medical schools grow at rates that will make it impossible for many to achieve their dreams of becoming a doctor. This changing cost structure makes it important the perspective students consider all ...
Source: EM Physician - Backstage Pass - April 18, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Taylor Source Type: blogs
