Last week, NPR reported a major humanitarian group’s decision to stop treating patients from detention centers in Misrata, Libya. According to the report, “torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.”
Read MoreMen and women are not the same. They are anatomically distinct, biologically different; and they have diverse styles of thinking and communicating. In a recent literature review, "The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain," Dianne E. Hoffman and Anita J. Tarzian highlight one significant difference
Read MoreWe live in lean times. Coupon cutting and frugal living may pare down spending in many parts of the budget, but it's hard to get discount health care.
Read MoreBioterrorism is not some new, inventive way of attacking the enemy nor is it a 21st century form of warfare. It is a historically documented, primitive form of attack dating back as far as the sixth century BCE.
Read MoreWith the specter of biochemical warfare upon us—if not from credible threats then certainly from the popular press and imagination—the debate has begun on the ethics of human subjects research to create effective antidotes and countermeasures.
Read MoreLast year's dramatic season finale of ER brought smallpox into the living rooms of many Americans, highlighting the role of emergency physicians as first responders in the event of a bioterrorist attack.
Read MoreWhen AIDS was first diagnosed in this country the diagnosis was a death sentence. For women, the diagnosis came with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) to avoid spreading HIV to an unborn child by not getting pregnant.
An editorial in The Lancet issued a dire warning to the international medical community: medicine is a weapon of war in Syria. It is just the latest in a series of reports from across the Middle East on how medical care and medical professionals and facilities are being used to inflict politically-motivated violence.
Read MoreOn Monday, the Global Post published Inside Syria: One Hospital’s Story, which offers a glimpse into an emergency room in Aleppo, Syria, flooded with wounded Syrians.
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