Medicine and the Holocaust in Medical Education: International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27
By Hedy S. Wald “Medicine was used for villainous ends during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an enormous trauma inflicted on human dignity and the human person; medicine was implicated in crimes against humanity.” His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston.1 January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day designated by the United Nations […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 27, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: reflectivemeded Tags: Health Care Social Justice Culture Diversity Inclusion Race Social Justice medical ethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Framework Convention On Global Health: A Call For Leadership From The Global Health Trio
In the current issue of Health Affairs, we explore a pivotal moment of opportunity and peril in global health, while identifying the leadership challenges of “the global health trio” — the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Each of the challenges we pose share a common thread: poor and other marginalized populations are most vulnerable to current and emerging health risks. Maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, health harms from climate change, and mass migration — all disproportionately affect those who are poor and less educated, indig...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Public Health antimicrobial resistance Ebola Source Type: blogs
UN Panel Releases Report on Access to Medicines
In September 2016, the United Nations Secretary General issued a report on its Panel on Access to Medicines. The Panel called for a “new deal to close the health innovation and access gap.”
According to a press release issued by the Panel, “the world must take bold new approaches to both health technology innovation and ensuring access so that all people can benefit from the medical advances that have dramatically improved the lives of millions around the world in the last century.” The Panel was convened by the UN Secretary-General to propose solutions for addressing the incoherencies between international human ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 27, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Both Important and Urgent: Getting ready to serve the Cognitive & Brain Health needs of an Aging Population
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On 8 December 2016, Ron Riesenbach, Managing Director of the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CC-ABHI), had the unique pleasure of presenting to a global innovation community through the SharpBrains Virtual Conference. The unique nature of the fully on-line format allowed him to share CC-ABHI’s vision and program news, as well as learn from a number of other speakers from around the world about how brain health is being reinvented in the digital age.
“It was very exciting to hear about all the new ideas and innovations that are being developed in the brain health and aging space. New ideas ...
Source: SharpBrains - December 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Stoller at CC-ABHI Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology aging Brain-health Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation cognitive-function digital age Source Type: blogs
Building Better Breastfeeding Awareness at UMMC
Breastfeeding is recognized as the best nutritional source for healthy infants. Unfortunately, breastfeeding rates in Baltimore city are well below the national average, so the University of Maryland Medical Center acknowledges the need to focus efforts on breastfeeding practices and do more to educate and support mothers within the community.
After a thorough evaluation, UMMC kicked off a commitment to embark on the journey to become a Baby Friendly designated hospital. UMMC follows the “10 Steps to Breastfeeding success” as outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNIC...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - December 13, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Drone-Based Emergency Medical Rescue System Presented
Getting paramedics to a site of an injury can often be challenging if the stricken person is on top of a cliff, in a forest, or some other hard to reach place. Italo Subbarao, DO, senior associate dean at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Guy Paul Cooper Jr., a med student at the college, and others, developed the new drone delivery system that can ferry emergency supplies and a communication system to allow nearby people to treat patients with help of remote physicians.
The system was demonstrated two days ago at the John Bell Airport in Bolton, Mississippi in front of the Governor of that st...
Source: Medgadget - December 8, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s Ban on Immigration from Certain Countries Is Illegal
Angelo A. Paparelli contributed to this post. This week last year, Donald Trump proposed prohibiting all Muslim immigration to the United States. He altered the proposal this year to specify“suspending immigration from nations tied to Islamic terror.” He told CNN that this was actually intended as anexpansion of the Muslim ban. Last week, he said, “People are pouring in from regions of the Middle East,” but that he would “stop that dead, cold flat.” He has alsomade clear that this would be one of the actions that he takes as president during his first day in office. This promise implies that he has the power...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 8, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Cato Discussion on China ’s Role in Dealing with North Korea
The United Nations Security Council has approved another round of sanctions against North Korea in response to its latest nuclear test. No one really believes that the new penalties, focused on Pyongyang ’s coal and other exports, will have any effect. In fact, it is doubtful that China, which purchases most of the North’s goods, will fully enforce the new resolution.Still, with most policymakers giving up any hope that the so-called Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea will voluntarily negotiate away its nuclear program, Beijing remains the best option for constraining the DPRK’s nuclear ambitions. The People’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 2, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
An Epidemic of Elder Abuse Largely Affects Women
Elayne Clift
She was an 89-year old woman in good health when she entered a nursing home for physical therapy after she’d fallen and broken her ankle. Three weeks later, her leg was gangrenous. Three months later, she was dead. The nursing home where she’d been treated was fined more than $112,000 for “neglect,’ a charge the nursing home director refuted. But the doctor’s orders, which called for monitoring the circulation in her leg and checking her skin for swelling or rednessevery shift had never been followed, nor was her wound bandage ever changed. Even when the woman complained of excruciating pain the staf...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Celebrate World Teachers ’ Day With a Dose of School Matters
This article offers suggestions on negotiating more reasonable make-up policies for SLPs in schools. This column was, by far, the most viewed article in this series.
Continuing the theme of missed-session policies, the most popular article among all of The ASHA Leader’s content over the past 12 months also touched on this hot topic:
“OSEP Reaffirms Guidance on Missed Services in Schools.”
Happy reading!
Shelley D. Hutchins is a content producer/editor for The ASHA Leader. shutchins@asha.org. (Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases)
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 5, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Events News Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Schools Source Type: blogs
Women as Agents of Change in Global Development
In her third article of The “Women As Agents of Change” series, Julie Potyraj delves into the issue of family planning.
Family Planning: An Accessible Option?
In my last article in the “Women as Agents of Change” series, I explored the realm of maternal health. High rates of maternal mortality are especially heartbreaking because of how many of those deaths could be prevented. Across the world, governments and organizations are experimenting with and implementing new strategies to reduce maternal mortality in their countries. But one effective strategy has been consistently underutilized, most likely because of the...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Empowerment Global Development Women Source Type: blogs
Coming Into View: Women and Disability
When disability rights advocate Anastasia Somoza, a young woman with cerebral palsy, gave her rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention in July she did more to bring disability into the mainstream’s view than anyone else in recent memory. She also reminded the world that there is a gender dimension to disability, one too long overlooked, misunderstood or left unaddressed.
One in five American women – about 27 million of them – have a disability. That number, which is growing, includes women veterans. But women with disabilities often have to fight against two forms of discrimination, one related to dis...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Disabilities Women Source Type: blogs
Notwithstanding a New Rhetorical Strategy from Statists, Higher Taxes and Bigger Government Is Not a Recipe for Growth and Development
I must be perversely masochistic because I have the strange habit of reading reports issued by international bureaucracies such as theInternational Monetary Fund,World Bank,United Nations, andOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development.But one tiny silver lining to this dark cloud is that it ’s given me an opportunity to notice how these groups have settled on a common strategy of urging higher taxes for the ostensible purpose of promoting growth and development.Seriously, this is their argument, though they always rely on euphemisms when asserting that politicians should get more money to spend.The OECD, for i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 29, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health And Political News Relevant To E-Health And Health In General.
September 29 Edition.Parliament has now risen and won ’t be back for a good few weeks. (Back October 10, 2016).On the global stage things are now clear – we are in for low interest rates all over the world for as far as you can see.Even in the US, that is slowly recovering it is expected interest rates will reach 0.625% by the end of 2016 and about 1.125% by the end of 2017. (2 years ago the figures were 2.5% and 3.25%). Something seems not to be working.Here is one view of what is wrong.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/21/un-fears-third-leg-of-the-global-financial-crisis-with-epic-debt/UN fears third leg of...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 28, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
