A death defying month (or how I avoided demise via Shigella, Disneyland, and Creative Writing)
Well, maybe the post title is a little on the hyperbole side of things. Anyway, many apologies for being more or less absent from this blog…
Read article“Establishing federal protections against genetic discrimination” – American College of Physicians Proponent of Genetic Anonymity
How would you feel if you were required to pay higher premiums, or worse yet – denied coverage – if an insurance agency found you were…
Read articleGlobal Health Initiative March Workshop: Saving the World? Misconceptions in Global Aid
Where is the line between foreign aid and volun-tourism? What are the doctor’s roles and boundaries in an international aid setting? How can you get involved?…
Read article8000 – The Number of People Who Die of AIDS Everyday
a day of AIDS Some UBCers likely walked by the art installation along Main Mall, across from the Chemistry buildings. I received the following email from…
Read articleThe 8 year plight of foreign medics in Libya accused of intentionally infecting over 400 children with HIV and how the scientific community tried to help them.
On the 24th of July 2007, 5 Bulgarian nurses and 1 Palestinian doctor were released from Libya after having been jailed for more than 8 years…
Read articleSalads and Frappuccinos
What influenzes your food choices? Are you being fed (mis)information through marketing, advertising and packaging that directs your subconscious food choices. How does the environment around…
Read articleThe Greatest Technological Challenges of the Next 50 Years
A group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and futurologists (yea, its a real word) presented the greatest technological challenges they foresee in the coming half century to the…
Read articleHappy New Year! (and keeping it real…)
What better way to keeping it real than showcasing a talk that discusses ways the Earth could end? This one is aptly titled, “10 ways the…
Read articleNational Institutes of Health Mandated to Make All Research Publicly Available
This is interesting – President Bush signed the first law making the release of National Institute of Health research publicly available. This also marks the first…
Read articleThat’s right people – we’ve got peer reviewed research on Santa Claus here (with abstracts!)
Check out this picture, and the blurb below: A 79-year-old man with mitral valve prolapse of both leaflets and consecutive severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation underwent central…
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