A remote medicine program in Saskatchewan allows acutely ill children and pregnant women to be treated by specialist doctors, without leaving their communities.
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It’s easy to get excited about the potential for robots to help care for the sick, injured and elderly, but we need the right regulations in place to deal with issues as they emerge.
Voters listed health care as one of their biggest concerns in the midterm elections. Were their concerns addressed? The results are mixed.
As House Democrats prepare their agenda for the next two years, dealing with America’s massive fiscal gap should be at the top of their list.
With the often prohibitive costs of dental treatment in Australia, travelling overseas to have dental work done is increasingly common. But it’s important to exercise caution.
Health professionals need a dose of drama in their training to build clinical and interpersonal skills.
Women health-care volunteers in places like Nepal, Afghanistan and Ethiopia play a vital role in the health system, yet they are undervalued and undertrained.
New figures show we are spending less on health than we used to but it mightn’t last, and surgeons and dentists are charging more.
The strengths of blockchain technologies could help address the weaknesses of health care systems to store and secure medical records.
Medical social workers coordinate care, an especially important job in complicated cases. Just as nurses and doctors are feeling burned out, these unsung heroes are feeling the burn, too. Here’s why that’s dangerous.
The impact of Venezuela’s medical crisis is not gender-neutral.
Medicine leads the professions in suicides. Fixing the physician suicide problem requires a re-examination of medicine’s “right stuff.”
South Africa must ensure that healthcare workers understand the importance of nutrition and that they transfer the correct messages to caregivers.
It’s not all about eating leafy green vegetables and working out: Living and working conditions have a profound impact on our health. So why are politicians avoiding taking action?
The Trump administration wants to privatize more of the federal bureaucracy. New research suggests this can lead to discrimination in essential government services.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when accessing health services.
To improve wait times for surgery, Canada needs to fix its health-care system. Developing a national seniors’ strategy would be a good place to start.
The most effective way to improve flu vaccination rates among health workers in high-risk clinical areas and aged care facilities is to make it mandatory.
The case of this cult-like group shows health consumers need better protection.
Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Full Professor in Economics, ERUDITE, UPEC, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Dean and Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
