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US health care's mini-cross roads: a long way to go, either way

March 21, 2010 Health Insurance

The US House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on one of the many required, but in this case crucial, steps to beginning an overhaul of the chaotic situation of American health care. By all accounts the vote is close, which is really pathetic. What is being proposed in the US is a baby step...

Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: religious tolerance

March 21, 2010 Freethinker Sermonettes

I'm still grant writing (a couple of more weeks), so I Thank God for my Savior, Edward Current, who again saves me from having to write a long Sermonette: Read the comments on this post...

We've made the zeitgeist

Cervantes March 20, 2010

Stephen Colbert "does" medication adherence. (Starts at about 3:26)The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cCheating Death - Clenched Fingers & Pill Reminderwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care reformStephen's sponsor, Prescott Pharmaceuticals, has...

Et tu, YouTube: Viacom

March 20, 2010 Intellectual Property

We frequently use video clips on this site, many, but not all, from YouTube. To say YouTube has revolutionized web video content would be accurate, neither an understatement nor an exaggeration. The amount of material uploaded to YouTube is staggering. It is also the frequent target of specious...

This will well-reward your time

Cervantes March 19, 2010

By Andrew Corsello.

Occupational Health News Roundup

Liz Borkowski March 19, 2010 Confined Space @ TPH

NPR’s Morning Edition has been running an interesting series by Jennifer Ludden on flexible workplaces, and the third part addresses a question that’s particularly challenging: How can shift workers get the same scheduling flexibility that many cubicle workers already enjoy? Ellen Kosser at...

Blood transfusions and pandemic flu

March 19, 2010 Epidemiology

As predicted, the pandemic of 2009 is beginning to yield more data, some of it directly applicable to pressing practical questions. The answers are still preliminary, and, as with all science, subject to revision. But it's what we have at the moment, and a letter that just appeared in the CDC...

What Monbiot Says

Cervantes March 18, 2010

As you know, I've been screaming myself hoarse about it for years:Distrust has been multiplied by the publishers of scientific journals, whose monopolistic practices make the supermarkets look like angels, and which are long overdue for a referral to the Competition Commission. They pay nothing for...

Roundup of NEJM commentaries

Cervantes March 18, 2010

The New England Journal of Medicine makes something like a million dollars a year off of drug advertising but they still hide most of their content from the public. I think that's a major scandal. The least I can do is let you in on some of the interesting observations.This week, Wafaa M...

A Best Buy in Public Health

The Pump Handle March 18, 2010 Health

By Anjana Padmanabhan What can 50 cents buy? A pencil? Erasers? Gum?  Not really the essentials. What if you found out that with just 50 cents you could save a life? That the change you find under the couch, or in your pockets could vastly improve a child’s future, or increase a woman’s access...

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Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration

CUERNAVACA April 9-11, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Environmental & Nutritional Medicine, Medical Education

The conference aims to develop a program which reflects the vibrancy and variety of Global Health programs throughout the region, while highlighting the South-South experience in fostering new collaborative mechanisms, using the lessons learned from...

Rheumatology: Improving Primary Care Outcomes Through Diagnosis and Treatment

SARASOTA April 12-16, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Rheumatology, Primary Care/General Practice/Family Medicine

Following this course, the participant should be able to describe the epidemiology and presenting complaints of the commonly seen Rheumatologic disorders; apply a practical approach to the use of laboratory studies and physical exam for developing...

Biennial Behavioural Research in Cancer Control

PERTH April 14-16, 2010 Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Oncology

The Cancer Council Western Australia is proud to be hosting the 10th Biennial Behavioural Research in Cancer Control Conference, to be held from 14-16 April 2010, at the Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. The conference is supported by...

World Vaccine Congress Washington 2010

WASHINGTON, DC April 19-22, 2010 Allergy & Immunology, Community/Public Health & Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases & Microbiology

Now in its 10th year, World Vaccine Congress 2010 remains the industry’s definitive vaccine industry event for major vaccine players and their respective senior level representatives.

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Organisations hosting and organising Community/Public Health & Epidemiology events.

AACR

AACR and IASLC

African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

American Medical Seminars, Inc.

American Society for Microbiology

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Amy Hill

Anwarul Hasan Sufi

Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA)

Australian Lactation Consultants' Association

Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth

Bogazici University, the Department of Primary Education

Canadian Society for International Health

Cancer Council

Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control

Chronic Diseases Network

Continuing Education, Inc.

Criterion Conferences

Department of Health, QLD

Elsevier

Emma Huang

Erin Nicholls

European Public Health Association

Eventuate

Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle

Garth Hardie

GHEC: Global Health Education Consortium

Gina Geldenhuys

Health Network Communications

Hepatitis Australia

Infection Prevention Society

Institute for Research on Global Business

Integrated Primary Health Care

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)

International Society for Urban Health

International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics

Jennifer James

Julie Phillips

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education Network

Melissa Blake

Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health & Environment

National Office of the Australasian College of Road Safety

National Vaccine Information Center

Niva

NSW Centre for Road Safety

NSW Rural Allied Health

Ontario Public Health Association

Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector

PHAIWA, Cancer Council

Professor Jens Peter Bonde, MD, PhD

Public Health Association Australia (PHAA)

Rachel Swinburn

Rachelle Hogan

Second European Network for Socio-Emotional Competence in Children and Bogazici University

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)

SIVUS

Sociedad Latinoamericana de Micobacterias y Tuberculosis (SLAMTB)

Society for DOHAD

Society for General Microbiology (SGM)

TBA

Terrapinn

The Australian National University

The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

The Lancet

The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico

Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers

University of Edinburgh

Vernon Ndlovu

Wessex Institute of Technology

World Cancer Research Fund

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