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• Gobierno Mexicano Certifica Hospitales para el Turismo Médico

  
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  México es conocido en todo el mundo por su hospitalidad, la calidez de su gente y su gran oferta turística que atrae a millones de visitantes durante todo el año. Además, México ofrece una infraestructura hospitalaria de primer nivel y … Continue reading →
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• Using satellite images to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts

  
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  There’s an interesting piece in New Scientist today about how non-governmental organization Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is exploring the potential of using satellite images to estimate population counts for international medical and disaster relief efforts. Currently, non-governmental organizations delivering ...
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• Stephen Ginn: “Moral obligation” or “a disaster for humanity and the planet?”

  
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  TweetIs medical control of human aging a worthy goal? Despite the moisturisers you can buy it is impossible to reverse the damage of aging and very few of us will live to anywhere near the theoretical maximum of human age, estimated to be 125. Yet some people think the first person who will live...
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• Gabriel Scally on Andrew Lansley’s Geneva fantasy at the World Health Assembly

  
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  TweetSometimes, while attending a World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, I get the feeling that I am in a parallel universe where diplomat speak serves to smooth over unresolvable conflict and where we are discussing not the world as it is but a fantasyland. That feeling was never stronger than...
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• Hot off the Press…Disruptive Women’s Latest eBook

  
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  By Robin Strongin. It is amazing to think that four years have gone by since the Disruptive Women blog started.  The blog aims to be forward-thinking, provocative, and – of course – a little disruptive and continues to be thanks to the great content and innovative ideas from our bloggers.  Through our bloggers ...
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• Tweets from "Updates in Anesthesia" course.

  
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  We had a very successful "Annual Updates in Anesthesia" course (our 9th) in Kumasi, Ghana. The organizers (as always) did a superb job, and the 250+ attendees were engaged, enthusiastic and stimulating. Below are some tweet highlights from the course: Read more »
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• Guest Contributor Janet Edmond: Philippines’ Bohol Island Demonstrates Benefits of Integrated Conservation and Health Development

  
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  In March 2012, I participated in a study tour to the island of Bohol , near the unique Danajon double barrier reef ecosystem – the only one of its kind in the Philippines and one of only three in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Nowhere is the connection between population dynamics and biodiversity more evident ...
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• Gabriel Scally: on the WHO general assembly in Geneva

  
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  TweetAs I queued in the rain to get through security I pondered life in a non-governmental organisation (NGO) rather than a Ministry of Health. It rarely makes the headlines in the press but every year the World Health Organization (WHO) has its general assembly in Geneva. It brings together...
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• Breaking News: Senate subcommittee votes to boost funding for Global Fund and global TB in 2013

  
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  The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations voted Tuesday on its funding bill for global health and foreign assistance programs beginning Oct. 1, 2012.  The committee voted to fund the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the president’s budget request of $1.65 billion ...
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• Reliable Family Planning Supply Chain Delivers Better Health and Prosperity to Ethiopian Families

  
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  “I started using contraceptives after I gave birth to my second child,” said Birtukan Bezabih, a 25-year-old married mother of three in southern Ethiopia . “I did not know that I was pregnant with my second child until [he] started moving inside my womb.  It was just a few months after I gave birth to my ...
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• Forecast: 42 per cent of Americans obese by 2030

  
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  Forty-two per cent of adult Americans will be obese by 2030, up from 36 per cent currently, according to a new study presented at a national conference on obesity prevention held in Washington recently.
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• Community Mobilization

  
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  I accompanied our Mission Director on a field trip to northeastern Madagascar in January 2012, where a USAID partner, Santenet2, is implementing a mother and child health and family planning program. One of the villages that we visited was Amboanio, where poverty is rampant after the closing of a cement factory ...
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• What Indicators Reveal about Interest in Global Health: the World Health Statistics Report

  
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  By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Alexander Rosinski at the University of California, San Francisco. A few days ago the World Health Statistics 2012 Report released its annual compendium of statistics. No doubt, it was a lot of work to compile—to verify every number in every cell, for each country ...
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• Does global health spending make a difference? Americans on both sides of the aisle say: Yes!

  
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  The U.S. is spending too little or about the right amount on global health aid, according to two-thirds of Americans surveyed recently by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), with one in five saying the U.S. spends too much. Overall the majority of Americans surveyed believes the U.S. has a major role to play in the ...
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• Disaster Calendar – 20 May 2012

  
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  DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,396 Days Left [20 May 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,396 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History… Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and ...
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• Disaster Calendar – 19 May 2012

  
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  DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,397 Days Left [19 May 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,397 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History… Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and ...
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• Doctor from Boston Children’s documents difficulties of life in the Congo

  
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  Chris Carpenter and patient Chris Carpenter, MD, of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Global Pediatrics Program (GPP) , sees the world a little differently than most people. When faced with news stories about poverty and suffering in Africa, many of us see tragedy; Carpenter sees an opportunity to help. Now ...
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• NIH study finds that coffee drinkers have lower risk of death

  
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    Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from ...
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• "A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Health" by Joseph Stiglitz

  
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  Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries. In many cases, lifesaving medicines can be cheaply mass-produced, but are sold at prices that block access to those who need them. And many die simply because there are no cures or vaccines, because so little of ...
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• From the Wilson Center: ECSP Report 14: Afghanistan, Against the Odds: A Demographic Surprise Elizabeth Leahy Madsen for the Wilson Center

  
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  A few months ago, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen broke down Afghanistan’s first-ever nationally representative survey of demographic and health issues in a two-part series here on the blog. Now, we’ve published her analysis in a rich new policy brief format. It is the first issue of Environmental Change and Security ...
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