Official figures (from CAPMAS according to Ahram) of suicide and deliberate self-harm in Egypt. According to this DSH is very high (104,000) but completed suicide is not (around 5000 per year which is about 6-7 per 100,000). They are saying rates are increasing. Still propagating the Eisenhower myth that Scand. countries have highest suicide rates. Young women attempt suicide more than men.
Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment of blacks that are still taking place in the medical establishment today.
We relied on repeatedly getting their consent every time we filmed with anyone in the hospital."
د.لوزة يعتقد أن احترام حقوق المريض يعني أن تترك مهمة احتجازه بالقوة في المستشفي للشرطة كحل أخير، وأهل المرضي الذين شاركوا في ورشة العمل يؤكدون أن تدخل الشرطة يسبب إهانة للمدمن ولأهله. كما أنهم يعتبرون أن إبلاغ الشرطة عن أبنائهم سلوك غير أخلاقي، ويخلق فجوة لا يمكن إصلاحها بين المدمن وأهله.
Inside the psychiatric hospitals the world forgot.
Rather than fight in World War II, conscientious objector and Quaker Charlie Lord was sent by the government to work at a mental institution called Philadelphia State Hospital. He secretly took photographs to expose the horrors of the institution. These are his photos.
أحالت الشؤون القانونية بالمجلس القومى للصحة النفسية مدير مستشفى بنى سويف للصحة النفسية إلى النيابة العامة لإعطائه جلسات علاج كهربائى لمريض بدون تخدير، وهو ما يعد انتهاكاً لحقوق المريض النفسى وفقا لقانون رعاية المريض النفسى
"I'll never set foot in Egypt again. Their approach is ridiculously over the top and it has tainted my opinion of the country forever."
In addition to demanding that health insurance beneficiaries pay for their treatment via a fixed subscription payment rather than open-ended contributions to individual services, the Committee is calling for state healthcare spending to be increased to 15 percent in line with United Nations Millennium Development goals.
A long term photo story about the state of mental health for children in Gaza after the recent war on the strip last Dec.2008\Jan.2009
Prof Blundell says: “the Telegraph article was a complete distortion of the facts of our investigation, which showed that exercise is very effective for weight loss. They completely reversed the outcome of our study.”
12,295 died in Egypt in 2007 in traffic accidents and 154,000 were injured.
It is criminal to claim that it can cure HIV, malaria or TB. If refrigerated it can help with thirst though.
The center also allocates a percentage of in-patient beds for refugees, the victims of conflicts in Sudan and Horn of Africa.
Risk of developing cancers that are sensitive to dietary factors decreases. Fish eaters are least prone to blood cancer for unknown reasons. Size and design of study is amazing which, IMO, decreases the effects of confounding variables.
Kleinman is also a prominent psychiatrist.
On the quackery of chiropractic spinal manipulations. I like this bit though: "The courtroom is no place to settle scientific disputes, and silencing journalists, scientists or sceptics with legal threats is, in my view, cowardly."
Doctors from the Ministry of “Health” come and go freely, with no masks, no gloves, nada.
OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions.
Iraqi psychiatrists say the war and violence has taken a real toll on mental health of the entire nation, and that the number of mental disorders is on the rise across the country.
“Scientific inspections have established that pigs engage in group sex. Unfortunately, this bad habit has also spread in Western society.”
"Killing (pigs) is not a solution, otherwise, we should kill the people, because the virus spreads through them," wrote Abdullah Kamal of the daily Rose El-Youssef. "The terrified members of parliament should have concentrated on asking the government first about the preventive measures and ways of confronting the problem."
. “We don’t see any evidence that anyone is getting infected from pigs,” said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s assistant director general.
whoever who screams loudest will win in the end
Pigs can be infected by avian influenza and human influenza viruses as well as swine influenza viruses. When influenza viruses from different species infect pigs, the viruses can reassort (i.e. swap genes) and new viruses that are a mix of swine, human and/or avian influenza viruses can emerge.