• What’s So “Wonderful!” About an Article That Provoked Hateful Revenge Fantasies Against Frontline Doctors and Public Health Officials?

    Updated: 2024-05-31 07:06:00
    "May he be forever riddled with guilt. May he suffer the loss of a loved one in the same manner. May he die alone." The post What’s So “Wonderful!” About an Article That Provoked Hateful Revenge Fantasies Against Frontline Doctors and Public Health Officials? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • More Patients Participate in Cancer Treatment Trials Than Previously Estimated

    Updated: 2024-05-31 00:43:01
    (MedPage Today) -- Participation in cancer treatment clinical trials was higher than historical estimates, according to a national sample of data from the Commission on Cancer. From 2013 to 2017, the overall estimated participation rate in cancer... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)

  • Khat and Muguka Use in East Africa

    Updated: 2024-05-29 00:15:11
    Many countries (such as Kenya’s recent regulatory changes regarding Muguka use) are struggling with the dilemma of how to regulate drug use by its citizens. There are many psychoactive drugs (we seem to be good at discovering them) with a variety of effects. Often there may be subjectively desirable effects in the short term, but long term addiction, the potential for withdrawal, […] The post Khat and Muguka Use in East Africa first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • More Newborns are Being Diagnosed With Syphilis as Adult Cases Continue Dramatic Rise

    Updated: 2024-05-24 11:00:00
    With more pregnant women being diagnosed with syphilis, there has been a steady rise in potentially deadly congenital infections. The post More Newborns are Being Diagnosed With Syphilis as Adult Cases Continue Dramatic Rise first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • March 2024 Issue

    Updated: 2024-05-23 08:23:18
    Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork [read the article summary] Muna Al-Jawad, Gaurish Chawla, Neil Singh “And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole [read the article summary] Arindam Nandi, Avishek Parui They are [...] Read More... The post March 2024 Issue appeared first on Medical Humanities.

  • The Health Costs of Fossil Fuel

    Updated: 2024-05-22 00:19:07
    Imagine if we could save over 8 million lives per year globally through public policy. Many of these preventable deaths are in younger people and fall disproportionately on the poor and disadvantaged. This is the estimate of a recent observational and modelling study on the effects of air pollution (fine particulate and ozone pollution). Of these death, over 5 million could be […] The post The Health Costs of Fossil Fuel first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

  • Post-Pandemic Futures: December 2025 Special Issue of BMJ Medical Humanities

    Updated: 2024-05-21 09:00:58
    : Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Post-Pandemic Futures : December 2025 Special Issue of BMJ Medical Humanities Posted on May 21, 2024 by Chris Pak Guest Editors Loic Bourdeau and Steven Wilson The immediate response to Covid-19 brought together political actors , health professionals , educators , industry leaders , artists , and activists . Yet the pandemic more generally has thrown into sharp relief the importance of connections in making sense of , and reacting to , health crises – connections between countries and peoples between epidemiology and the ecosystem between public health and the economy . These points of intersection encourage us to view global health challenges

  • Invisible Disabilities Should Not Mean Invisible Patients

    Updated: 2024-05-14 09:00:08
    Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Invisible Disabilities Should Not Mean Invisible Patients Posted on May 14, 2024 by Chris Pak Blog by Rebecca Zickerman When doctors fail to communicate effectively with their patients , quality of care is impacted on the patient side , communication barriers such as language , health literacy , and disabilities interfering with information processing may all contribute to detrimental health effects . Health-care providers need more training on how to communicate effectively with patients who have disabilities , especially those whose disabilities are not immediately . apparent We should recognize that there is not just one definition of a disability

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