http://blog.healthmongers.org a student-led public health blog Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:28:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Hello after many months! The stresses of school and work and life have been having their way with me – and probably with others of you Mongers, too – but I’m hoping to be able to post a little more often in the future.) I got an important note from a ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/10/17/help-make-wic-better/ Richard Brown writes to say that you can read his Rockefeller Medicine Men (once dubbed the “most controversial” work of medical history in a decade by Ronald Numbers) for free online now at a website called “Soil and Health.” Click here to go. http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/07/12/free-copy-of-rockefeller-medicine-men/ I asked Howard Berliner, Professor of Health Services Management and Policy at the New School in New York City, if he could write a brief comment on the Buffett donation and the ideology of the Gates Foundation, and he graciously agreed to do so. Berliner is a polymath — ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/07/11/prof-howard-berliner-on-the-buffett-donation-and-the-gates-foundation/ AMSA is the country’s progressive medical student organization and does lots of great work. Its origins, however, are rather unsavory, at least from this political end of things. One can trace AMSA back to two organizations, the Interne Council and the Association of Medical Students, which were formed ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/07/05/history-quiz-where-did-amsa-come-from/ In a post a few days ago on the Gates Foundation’s health programs, I didn’t excerpt this section of the Times’ description of their strategy, in which so-called “microcredit”/”microloan” programs will play a key role. Excerpt: Although the money will not change the foundation’s larger goals, Mrs. Gates mentioned yesterday that it ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/07/01/criticisms-of-microcredit/ The New York Review of Books features a review-essay on the new general-interst books on climate change that have come out recently. Check it out here. http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/07/01/new-york-review-of-books-on-climate/ 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 ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/06/28/the-buffett-donation-the-gates-foundation-and-international-health/ 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 ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/06/26/unc-web-conference-on-minority-health/ 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 ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/06/25/mentally-unhealthy-nyc/ 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 ... http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/06/18/ron-dellums-wins-mayoral-election/