February 2012
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WatchCurrent disease surveillance in the US : physicians and labs submit data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There’s typically a week-long delay between an outbreak and the release of an official report,” Adam Cole reports on NPR’s Shots.
So what’s a public health expert in search of more real-time information to do? Hit the Internet, of...
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“Old-school tropical medicine is really a thing of the past.”
– Joep Lange, the head of the department of global health at the University of Amsterdam, is quoted in a New York Times piece on how European universities are approaching the study of international health.
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Bird Flu Flap: A Timeline of the Controversy Over...
In advance of the tomorrow’s closed-door World Health Organization meeting, I created a timeline of the bird flu research controversy:
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The timeline is also hosted on Humanosphere.
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Change.org is attracting one million new members... →
The focus of Nicholas Kristof’s column this week is Change.org, the site that is helping “very ordinary people to defeat some of the most powerful corporate and political interests around.”
“We’re growing more each month than the total we had in the first four years,” Ben Rattray, Change.org’s founder, told Kristof.
Users launch about 10,000 petitions each...
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Facebook's Worth > 6 Years of Breast Cancer...
Based on Facebook’s IPO filing, market analysts put the company’s total value at a high of $100 billion. Assuming it is worth that much, Mashable compiled a list of “giant” things that are less valuable than Facebook. The third spot on the list puts it into perspective for the health wonks out there:
The Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment for 6 Years
Breast cancer costs the...
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7 Questions with Barbara Bush, CEO of Global... →