TropicalMedicine Vignetteby
Dr. Erik McLaughlin
Here is the latest tropicalmedicine vignette from the McGill-CanTropMed listserv. Each month they send out a new picture and brief information on a tropicalmedicine disease. The answer...
TropicalMedicine Super-Siteby
Dr. Erik McLaughlin
I came along an amazing website for tropicalmedicine. The TropicalMedicine Central Resource... for reference by anybody who studies tropicalmedicine.
The Introduction of the Book is very cool and sums...
TropicalMedicine 101 Conferenceby
Dr. Erik McLaughlin
, that I thought I would share. TropicalMedicine101.com is putting on a conference in Februrary 3-9 2008, located in Guatemala. The conference is geared to educate the primary care physician about travel and tropicalmedicine...
Remote Medicine Websiteby
Dr. Erik McLaughlin
I see the specialities of travel and tropicalmedicine overlap. I also see how wilderness... Health, TropicalMedicine, Websites, Wilderness | Tagged: adventure doc, Global Health, international...
AIDS on the Rise in Cuban Youth: Officials
In a televised interview Saturday, the deputy director of Havana's TropicalMedicine Institute warned that Cuba is tracking an increase in HIV cases among young people. Cuba saw more than 1,300 new HIV infections last year; another 1,400 are projected to occur this year; and those most at risk...crap
Health Service Research in Africa Needs Funding, Coordination
A TropicalMedicine & International Health editorial discusses strengthening health services in Africa, especially "an urgent need to invest more in research to maximise the impact of health interventions." The authors examine health care worker shortages as well as a need to integrate services...crap
AIDS Virus "Could Be Weakening"
A new study details the results of a comparison of HIV-1 samples from 1986-1989 and 2002-2003 conducted by a team at the Institute of TropicalMedicine in Antwerp. Researchers found the newer samples appeared not to multiply as well and were more sensitive to drugs.
Dr. Eric Artz said, "This...crap
Need some guidance and opinions
Hi, i went to down under for 3 months. and i come froma tropical climate. I had sex with a guy, i was the bottom. he did wear the condom. however i remembered he pulled out halfway during the deed and took a long time to put it back in. After the deed was done, i saw him fumbling a little...crap
Examining Visceral Leishmaniasis/HIV Co-Infection in East Africa
In this post in the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' (NTDs) "End the Neglect" blog, Julien Potet, NTD policy adviser at Medecins Sans Frontieres' Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, examines the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis among people living with HIV in East Africa. He writes...crap
Stopping Counterfeit Drugs in Africa "Particulary Challenging"
-Oxford TropicalMedicine Research Collaboration (Siva, 11/20).
Back to other news for November 2010...
A Lancet World Report looks at global efforts to tackle counterfeit medicines, particularly in Africa, where it "is particularly challenging ... as pharmacies and hospitals are far...crap