Medicine & Healthcare

A $10 billion investment in community health centers, expected to go to $14 billion when Congress completes work on health care reform legislation, was included in a final series of changes to the Senate bill unveiled today. The provision, which would provide primary care for 25 million more Americans, was requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, "45,000,000 Americans will get single-payer care" through Community Health Centers, much like the already-existing system in Vermont.

Gaceta Sanitaria Vol.21 Núm. 06. Gaceta Sanitaria. ISSN:0213-9111 | Free full text (English)

Ethical Considerations in the Interpretation and Communication of Clinical Trial Results -- Coultas 4 (2): 194 -- Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

The frequency with which scientists fabricate and falsify data, or commit other forms of scientific misconduct is a matter of controversy... Misconduct was reported more frequently by medical/pharmacological researchers than others...This metareview is a conservative estimate of the true prevalence of scientific misconduct.

What is the future of peer review? Why is there fraud in science? Is plagiarism out of control? Why do scientists do bad things? Is it all a case of:"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing?"

Participatory medicine will owe part of its success to the technologies that have the potential to remove treatment, symptom management, administrative, and communications burdens from individuals and clinicians while maintaining the critical interpersonal interactions between them. Out of the steady stream of new devices, programs, gadgets, and applications, which will make a difference in the health and lives of patients? We hope to build the Journal as a resource for critical reviews of technologies that support and facilitate participatory medicine. We realize it will be no small undertaking to put together a process that will allow for the review of a substantial number of technologies over time, reflecting the experience of different types of users.

Yachacs, shamans, and botanical medicine in Otavalo: Andean medicine videos