Warren Buffett’s enormous donation to the Gates Foundation, whose #1 priority is global health and eradication of diseases, has made enormous headlines in the past few days. I’d be curious to hear from other bloggers or readers more involved in global health than I about the role (pros and cons) of foundation money […]

UNC-Chapel Hill is holding a video conference on Monday and Wednesday. The two topics both sound very compelling.
Excerpt:
This year’s Videoconference opens with a June 26th broadcast from the UNC-CH Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (SCBCH). Topic: Race-Specific Medicine, with Joseph L. Graves, Jr., Ph.D. Pilar Ossorio, Ph.D.,J.D., Morris W. Foster, […]

The New York Academy of Medicine’s Journal of Urban Health has a new study out showing alarming rates of mental distress. Unfortunately, the electronic version doesn’t seem to be up yet, which means that I haven’t seen the actual article or even the abstract. You’ll have to accept just the press release for […]

I was pleased to read today that former U.S. Congressman Ron Dellums finally won his mayoral race in Oakland. (It was unclear for a couple weeks whether a run-off would be necessary.) In and out of office, Dellums has been one of the staunchest advocates of change in health care.
In the late 1970s, he […]

The U.A.W. met this week, and its members are facing some bleak realities, especially when it comes to the major benefit that the U.A.W. delivered for years: health insurance.
Excerpt from a Times piece:
Those still working are finding that their lives have changed. In the past year, the U.A.W. reached landmark agreements that will […]