The Global Forum's vision is of a world in which the potential of research and innovation is fully utilized to address the health problems of the poor. Innovation is defined as the creation, development and implementation of a new product, process or service, with the aim of improving efficiency, effectiveness or competitive advantage. Research for health therefore goes far beyond medicine and biology, to include sectors such as economics, environment, politics, sociology and others. Innovating for the health of all involves both social and technological innovation.

The male latex condom is the single, most efficient, available technology to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Why women should marry younger men: older women make smarter babies, older men make dull kids. Older men might make kids with autism, schizophrenia, epilepsy, bipolar, cleft palate, cancers, heart defects. Older women might make kids with Down syndrome only. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.plosjournals.org%2Fperlserv%2F%3Frequest%3Dget-document%26doi%3D10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000042

قال الدكتور عادل أبوزيد، وكيل وزارة الصحة بالمحافظة، إنه أمر باحتجاز المريض فى المستشفى فى أعقاب التجمهر، لكن المتجمهرين رفضوا، مما أدى لتدخل الأجهزة الأمنية، وأشار إلى أنه يعرف المريض جيداً، وليس لديه مانع فى علاجه بالرغم من شكوى المستشفى من تصرفاته غير المسؤولة Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.almasry-alyoum.com%2Farticle2.aspx%3FArticleID%3D202487

قامت أجهزة الأمن بالانتقال إلى مكان التجمهر وألقت القبض على 11 شخصاً من المتجمهرين وإحيلوا إلى النيابة بتهمة التجمهر Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.masrawy.com%2FNews%2FCases%2FGeneral%2F2009%2Fmarch%2F12%2Fpatient.aspx

قيام أحد الأطباء بمستشفى مطروح العام بإلقاء أحد المرضى ويدعى جاد عبدالكريم ــ 45 سنة ــ إلى الشارع بواسطة العاملين بالمستشفى محمولا على نقالة وهو فى حالة مرضية سيئة خارج المستشفى Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shorouknews.com%2FContentData.aspx%3Fid%3D14102

إلقاء العاملين بمستشفي مطروح العام المواطن جاد عبدالكريم (45 سنة) في الشارع بناء علي أوامر أطباء المستشفي Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elbadeel.net%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D48460%26Itemid%3D1

2,000 Total estimated number who have died as a result of receiving contaminated blood products

The EIPR's analysis of the new bill finds it generally in conformity with human rights standards, including the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1991.

Psychiatrists against human rights! Shame. Egyptian patients are no different than any other patient around the world ya welad el weskha

Kim Jong-il's second stroke confirmed. Kim visited a chicken farm.

Dictators have similar style in addressing the public.

"I eat chicken every day, don't panic, everyone"

The aim of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers is to be of assistance to the people subjected to torture in detention places and prisons providing physical, mental and social treatment, and rehabilitation.

rice burn acreage was shown to have a small but statistically significant effect on asthma morbidity in Butte County

air pollution is responsible for an average of 3400 deaths each year in Cairo. Air pollution

could use a service like twitter or a close server functioning like twitter (1 to many) could be built for it.

physician 2.0 ?

يري أن مدير المستشفي الناجح هو الذي يهتم فعلاً بنظافة الحمامات.

Indian advocacy initiative for rights & quality of mental services

largest study on shisha use in Egypt

Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness

aims to ensure that people with mental disabilities are able to live in the community and to participate in society with full respect for their human rights.

the current status of treatment efforts for schizophrenia in the developing world and the measures that can be taken to increase the proportion of patients receiving treatment.

Psychiatric fact sheets for public