China’s quack doctors are not afraid to hire someone who’ll hurt you, or me

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on August 25, 2010. Filed under China, Public Health. 2 Comments.
Fang Xuanchang is a respected Chinese science and technology journalist who was recently beaten by two men he suspects were thugs hired by an angry doctor he exposed in a story. The incident suggests a new enemy to journalists in a nation filled with government press crackdowns: vindictive story subjects who hire mobsters to seek revenge. Photograph by: John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times/MCT
All I can say is, boy it's good to be in the US of A, where I can safely say, "Go F[ine and self regulate] yourself [better] TianTian Puhua Hospital in Beijing for taking suffering people's money and feeding them false hope." I really hate to get half-way to vulgar like I just did, but medical predators make me so angry.

Short Story: Negative Selection Has Gone Global, My Friend

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on August 24, 2010. Filed under Asia, NOT-China, China, Human Rights. No comments.
"It’s 1974, and you’re a fac­tory worker in the For­mer Yugoslavia. You’re a highly skilled mechan­i­cal engi­neer, no less: a mem­ber of the the intel­lec­tual and trained elite. The clock on the fac­tory floor strikes 11 am and you go down to the cafe­te­ria to grab some musaka, a swig of yogurt and smoke a few cig­a­rettes. The foreman’s called a lunch meet­ing, which means you can just sit there, smoke and listen."

Breaking: SCA Web Study Finds that Chinese Focus on Personal Hygiene More Intense After H1N1

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on August 20, 2010. Filed under China, Public Health. 1 Comment.
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Earlier in Shanghai today, at the Swedish pavilion of Expo 2010, a company called SCA, that describes itself as "the world's third largest global paper and hygiene products company", presented a the results of global hygiene attitudes study. The stated goal of the study was to find out how the flu pandemic of 2009 may have changed global attitudes towards hygiene, and its findings suggest that a high portion of Chinese pay more attention to good hygiene habits today than before the flu pandemic.

Call for entrants: Ashoka Changemakers “Patients | Choices | Empowerment ” Challenge

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on August 18, 2010. Filed under Marketing Health, News Items. No comments.
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James and I have been asked to provide feedback to entrants of the Patients| Choices| Empowerment competition sponsored by AMGEN that dares entrants "to answer the question of how we can elevate patients’ voices to improve health outcomes globally." There will be three winners, and the prize for each will be HUGE: $10,000. It's worth a shot. I strongly encourage you to enter. All entries are due by September 29, 2010 at 5pm EST. If you enter before August 25th, 2010 you are eligible for the $1000 best early entry prize.

The “Best of Asia Healthcare Blog” and I’m done with blogging *regularly for a while

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on August 17, 2010. Filed under News Items. 5 Comments.
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Today I bid an open-ended adieu to Asia Healthcare Blog. Blogging at AHCB for almost two years  has afforded me many opportunities to meet fine people, and has been a formative experience in my personal life, as well.     Reader and blogger community feedback has imbued me with a full range of emotions, from the [...]