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Video: Latina Shares Her ‘Health Policy Research’ Story

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Tags: HIspanics News, Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders, Health Policy, Research Program, RWJF Scholars, Sociology

Jackie ― 24 weeks ago

“Video: Latina Shares Her ‘Health Policy Research’ Story”

dm2hispanics ―               “In a new video, Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders describes how the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Scholars in Health Policy Research Program has affected her.” view it in SALUDTODAY

Tags: News, Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders, Health Policy, Research Program, RWJF Scholars, Sociology

Jackie ― 24 weeks ago

World Toilet Day: Give A Shit

Scepticemia ― Happy World Toilet day. As a dear friend reminded me today, it is the day the World Toilet Organization has earmarked for spreading awareness about the lack of proper sanitation and potable water which is killing a large number of people (someone ...

Tags: Public Health, Days In Medicine, Health Policy, Medical Policy, Public Health Messages, Public Sanitation

Pranab ― 25 weeks ago

National Doctors’ Day & The Perils of Being an Indian (Junior) Doctor

Scepticemia ― “There is no greater reward in our profession than the knowledge that God has entrusted us with the physical care of His people. The Almighty has reserved for Himself the power to create life, but He has assigned to a few of us the...

Tags: #MedEd, Health, Health Policy, History Of Medicine, Media, Medical Education

Pranab ― 30 Mar, 12

World TB Day: Make Your Own Poster, SHow your Support

Scepticemia ― Well, its not too fab considering I did not put too much thought into which floating head of mine should go into the image, but then again, more than the image, it is the thought that counts. You can make your own World TB Day poster by going to ...

Tags: Medcetera, Days In Medicine, Health, Health Policy, Infectious Diseases, Medicine

Pranab ― 24 Mar, 12

TB or Not TB: World TB Day–No More TB

Scepticemia ― Today is the World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Robert Koch made the stunning announcement that he had been able to identify the causative agent for tuberculosis – the Tubercle bacilli. Tuberculosis is a disease that has...

Tags: Medcetera, Days In Medicine, Health, Health Economics, Health Policy, Medical Ethics

Pranab ― 24 Mar, 12

TEDx Comes to Kolkata

Scepticemia ― As a part of a bigger TEDx webcast from Berlin, a TEDx event is being organized in Kolkata, at Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The program is being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. TEDx events have been organized in India before,...

Tags: Life Beyond Medicine, Health, Health Economics, Health IT, Health Policy, Kolkata

Pranab ― 18 Feb, 12

Save the Junior Doctors: Primum Non Nocere

Scepticemia ― It seems like an age old saga of woe and misery. Once again the media and mob seem to have ransacked and attacked on duty junior doctors in Bankura Sammilani Medical College, one of the premier teaching tertiary care hospitals in the state. ...

Tags: Medcetera, Defensive Medicine, Health Policy, Human Rights, Internship Stories, Junior Doctors

Pranab ― 11 Feb, 12

Thoughts on World Cancer Day: Part II–Spreading the Word

Scepticemia ― Although I missed writing about this particular day of great public health interest on the day it actually took place, it was good to see the Indian corporates come up with an innovative way to celebrate this event. As I said in a previous post, ...

Tags: Life Beyond Medicine, Cancer, Days In Medicine, Health Policy, Mumbai, PopCult

Pranab ― 10 Feb, 12

Mistakes in Medicine: The Brian Goldman TED Talk

Scepticemia ― This TED Talk has been on my radar for quite some time now, but thanks to my exams and study schedules, I have not been able to get around to going through it. At nearly 20 minutes (plus a lot more if your connection is as slow as mine) it is a ...

Tags: #MedEd, Health Policy, Medical Education, Medical Errors, Medical Ethics, Medical Policy

Pranab ― 31 Jan, 12

Tech Care of Your Health

Scepticemia ― Well, it took a massively thought provoking article by Vinod Khosla on TechCrunch to jerk me out of my inertia of lethargy with blogging. In his post “Do we need Doctors or Algorithms” VK embarks on a sci-fiesque prediction of a day when doctors ...

Tags: #HCSM, IDebate, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Health Economics, Health Policy

Pranab ― 13 Jan, 12

Establishing a ceiling on the price of drugs is a very bad idea

Sanjeev Sabhlok's occasional blog ― I received an email re: India's proposed National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2011 There is a move in India to bring more drug prices under control. There is a deep nexus between Doctors and Pharma companies like rest of the world. Pharma...

Tags: India, Public Policy, Health Policy

Sanjeev Sabhlok ― 1 Nov, 11

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