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Sexually transmitted disease is attributed to urinating under a full moon. People with buda, "evil eye," are said to be able to harm others by looking at them. Ethiopians often complain of rasehn, "my head" (often saying it burns); yazorehnyal, "spinning" (not a true vertigo); and libehn, "my heart" (usually indicating dyspepsia rather than a cardiac problem). Most Ethiopians have faith in traditional healers and procedures. In children, uvulectomy (to prevent presumed suffocation during pharyngitis in babies), the extraction of lower incisors (to prevent diarrhea), and the incision of eyelids (to prevent or cure conjunctivitis) are common.

The center also allocates a percentage of in-patient beds for refugees, the victims of conflicts in Sudan and Horn of Africa.

Too much empathy is not good. To lapse into maudlin imaginations of another’s experience can be presumptive, invasive, and uncomfortable. The exposing of vulnerability might be constructive or destructive to health, relationships, and wellbeing. To step too far into another’s shoes can sap the very resourcefulness needed by both parties. Perhaps empathy is best displayed when it acknowledges suffering, with merely one foot in the shoe of another.

Good resource to revise radiology.

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."

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.

Circumcision as a surgical vaccination.

أنتم أعلم بأمور دنياكم

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.

المتهمين حضروا فى سيارة ترحيلات بعد منتصف الليل، وأدخلهم الحرس على دفعات إلى مبنى مصلحة الطب الشرعى، الذى شهد حراسة أمنية مشددة حتى انتهت إجراءات الكشف الطبى عليهم، والتى استمرت لمدة ٣ ساعات تقريباً، وقال شهود عيان إن ٨ سيارات أمن مركزى وشرطة كانت تحاصر المبنى وغادرت بعد انتهاء الكشف.

أول ما اتوليت منصبي الحالي استدعتني أمن الدولة والرقابة الإدارية وجهة سيادية أخري، وبصراحة صعقت عندما وجدت كم المعلومات الهائل عني لديهم، هما بالأساس موجودين لحماية الأشخاص داخل المصلحة.

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

This sounds like a joke.

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

"I know, that what I just have done was wrong, but it was necessary and now I am satisfied. At least one of them has now paid for the others (the other doctors who had treated her)"

Physicians lament that bribery is so endemic in the healthcare system that if a doctor refuses a bribe, patients typically become anxious and distraught, believing this to be a sign that their illness is incurable and death is imminent. Doctors then take the bribe to try to allay their anxiety.

According to Summerfield, half the population in Gaza have "basically spent some time in [Israeli] detention, some of them for years." The proportion of the Gazan adult male population interrogated and tortured, he adds, is probably higher than any population in the world.