Carlton Scott thinks the court should “leave it like it is. I mean, what are people going to do? Get sick, go to the hospital [and say], ‘I don’t have insurance. Won’t you please help me anyway?’ ” It just won’t happen, he says
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A Sheriff And A Doctor Team Up To Map Childhood TraumaMarch 10, 2015 |
“I want to prevent what I’m seeing on the autopsy table. … A lot of times, I’m standing there going, ‘I don’t think this person had a very nice early childhood.’ ” – Dr. Nancy Hardt, pathologist, University of Florida
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Visiting Nurses, Helping Mothers on the MarginsMarch 9, 2015 |
“I feel so down,” she texted from her hospital bed. “I’m sick of these deadbeats. I’m sick of having to be so strong.” The message went not to a friend or family member, but to a nurse, Beth Pletz. Ms. Pletz has counseled Ms. Corley at her home through the Nurse-Family Partnership, which helps poor, first-time mothers learn to be parents
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Improving health systems in three Ebola-hit African countries would have cost a third of relief effort there, says new Save the Children report
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Clinical Trials Not Immune From Poor Quality DrugsFebruary 26, 2015 |
There is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that significant quantities of medicines and medical products, especially in low and middle-income countries, are of poor quality. Malaria researcher and drug quality expert Professor Paul Newton, of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit in Laos, explains the latest research findings
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Perspectives on Global Food Ethics: Jessica FanzoFebruary 25, 2015 |
Q & A with Jessica Fanzo, PhD, of the Institute of Human Nutrition in the Institute of Human Nutrition and Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University and a participant in the Feeding the World, Ethically meeting
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Hospitals Face ClosuresFebruary 23, 2015 |
As a ‘new day in healthcare’ dawns. As hospitals increasingly lose patients to medical care delivered in clinics and home settings, hospital operators are escalating their efforts to shrink capacity
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Perspectives on Global Food Ethics: Salazar BrandãoJanuary 22, 2015 |
Q & A with Antônio Salazar P. Brandão, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Analysis at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a participant in the Feeding the World, Ethically meeting
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