Archive for the 'Public Health' Category
Here’s some of links to articles about the growth of MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Quite a lot of interest in this given the recent paper by Dr. Monina Klevens et al at the CDC which concluded:
“Based on 8,987 observed cases of MRSA and 1,598 in-hospital deaths among patients with MRSA, we estimate that 94,360 [...]
Coverage by the Boston Globe of an ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) cluster in Southeastern MA. Not regular news coverage, but this is an OP-Ed, about Public Health (!):
Disease cluster mystery
October 14, 2007
FOR MORE than 20 years, health officials have known about a puzzling concentration of the neurodegenerative illness known as Lou Gehrig’s disease [...]
As a follow-up to my post about the delusion, seemingly common among many Americans, that America has the best health care in the world, it seems appropriate to link to an interesting article over at the Nieman Center, noting the lack of in-depth coverage of the Canadian health care system in US media. (It [...]
WHO makes the standard noises, but is anyone listening?
WHO warns of global epidemic risk
Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the World Health Organization annual report says. [...]
As a follow up to my two pieces about the strange attraction between discussion of the Thai government’s origins in a military coup and any mention of the compulsory licensing program, I would suggest reading this post that dissects some of the dis-information campaign re: the Thai compulsory licensing program over at the blog Pheripheries.
Well it appears that the Financial Times is not alone in mentioning that the Thai government is not a democracy every time they discuss the mandatory licensing issue. It seems as if there might be a co-ordinated talking point memo out there somewhere, no?
Tariffs the real barrier to HIV treatment
By Tim Wilson
The close [...]
In the New York Times, another Headline as a question about a public health issue, which really seems to have caught on, no? So much so that this is only a question by intonation and punctuation, not syntactic structure? But Headlines can only be so long, right?
World’s Best Medical Care?
Many Americans are [...]
An interesting site, Who is sick, collects data from folks who volunteer the symptoms of their sickness. It then displays this information, in a clear, graphic way, which conveys a few of the key symptoms by use of a color-coded pie chart. Seems like a site that has the potential, if [...]
Amartya Sen had observed that a Free Press is the very best weapon against hunger. There has never been, he asserts, a famine in a modern nation that has both a Free Press and multi-party democracy. I had wondered a while back (in this post: The Free Press, Famines, and Disease Outbreaks) [...]
First, there were several stories of toothpaste containing diethylene glycol (DEG) in China.
OK, well, we have the FDA here right? They investigate stuff like this, so we are safe right?
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