July 15th One-Day Conference: “Incorporating Public Health Policy Into Healthcare Management”

Written by James. Filed under News Items. 3 Comments.
Conference
Our friends at the Beijing Healthcare Forum write to us saying: We hope you’re enjoying your summer. We are still in the process of lining up new, exciting speakers for you. In the meantime, we are pleased to invite you to a July 15th one-day conference being organized by International Healthcare Leadership* and the Columbia [...]

Seriously, the Chinese aren’t okay with aborting their baby girls.

Written by Damjan Denoble. Filed under China, Human Rights. 1 Comment.
chinesegirls
At base, I have trouble believing that millions of parents in a culture that's family centered would do that to their babies. I have said as much in the past. There are lots of other explanations available, and the Telegraph reports on one today - the Chinese are having the girls but not reporting them, thereby skewing official numbers.

Chinese men like Tanzania’s women. Sort of.

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2009 Montreal Carifiesta - Jump Up - Carifête
Saratu is absolutely right - this is very good Damjan bait. Let the record show that I just referred to myself in the third person for the first time in print. This must mean that the link is good enough to trigger an out of body experience.

Teva | Reaching $31B In Sales One Frugal Step At A Time…

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Teva's Warehouse
Great article this week from Natasha Singer of the New York Times about how TEVA (meaning "nature"), a one time small Israeli pharma start-up, is taking the generic meds market by storm.

H1N1 flu is still out in force, in Southeast Asia

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Flumap_may102010
If you are currently in Southeast Asia or plan to go there in the near future, then you should know that if you contract the flu there is between a 1 in 10 and a 1 in 5 chance that it will be the H1N1 virus.  And, if you are going to be traveling through [...]