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Saint Barnabas Medical Center Pioneers New Program Bringing Humanities and Humanism to Medicine (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
What do poetry, art, literature, film and history have to do with medical practice? "Everything," according to Richard S. Panush, M.D., Chair of Medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, who has pioneered an innovative program bringing humanities to the bedside for residents in internal medicine.
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UK rides high in new index of casual sex (Guardian Unlimited)
British men and women are among the world's most promiscuous, an international survey of sexual behaviour and attitudes has found. In an index measuring one-night stands, numbers of partners and attitudes to sex, Britain comes out ahead of other industrialised nations such as Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Some 14,000 people in 48 countries filled in ...
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More female physicians, pharmacists working in Canada: reports (CBC)
More women are joining the ranks of health-care occupations in Canada, including the traditionally male-dominated professions of medicine and pharmacy, according to a report released on Monday.
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HIV As Sole Cause Of AIDS Challanged (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
For almost a quarter-century the AIDS establishment has drummed into our heads that the HIV virus is the sole cause of AIDS, an epidemic that has already killed more than 25 million people worldwide since 1981. AIDS research is entirely consumed with the development and sale of expensive "anti-virals", which many can't afford.
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Tinospora cordifolia (ThirdAge)
The herb Tinospora cordifolia has a long history of use in Ayurvedic medicine (the traditional medicine of India). It has been used to treat convalescence from severe illness, liver disease, arthritis , urinary problems, eye diseases, cancer , anemia, diabetes , and diarrhea.
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Johns Hopkins and Makerere University to collaborate on African health education initiative (EurekAlert!)
( Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health ) The Johns Hopkins University has received a $4.97 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to undertake the initial phase of a unique program aimed at improving health outcomes in Uganda and East Africa, in coordination with the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health and the Makerere University College of Health ...
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Israel blocks Libyan aid boat from reaching Gaza (Middle East Times)
A Palestinian worker awaits the arrival of a Libyan aid ship at Gaza City port. Israeli warships have prevented the Libyan cargo vessel from reaching the impoverished Palestinian territory which has been crippled by an Israeli blockade.
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Kony’s Survival Ploy (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
After announcing that he would sign a peace deal with the Ugandan government on Saturday, November 29, Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony again drew a crowd to the jungle camp of Nabanga on the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.
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New hospitals, services give residents options for healthcare (The Katy Times)
While driving from Houston into the Katy area, residents may have become aware of new construction and recently built facilities surrounding the Interstate 10 West stretch from Barker Cypress to Grand Parkway.
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A history revealed: Book explores Japan's connection to Guam (Pacific Daily News)
While many Guam residents know about the brutality endured by Chamorros during the Japanese occupation of the island during World War II, many of the more than 1 million Japanese tourists who visit the island each year are oblivious to that history, says Makoto Yamaguchi.
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