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Decreased need for blood transfusions: bad for business but good for people

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Decreased need for blood transfusions: bad for business but good for people

The New York Times of August 23, 2014, contains a front-page story by Matthew L. Wald with good news. The use of blood in the US has gone do...

Caribbean medical schools: "second chance" or serving a real need?

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Caribbean medical schools: "second chance" or serving a real need?

“ Second chance med school ”, by Anemona Harticollis in the New York Times July 31, 2014 , is the most recent treatment of the topic of for-...

Unknown 7:54 AM Add Comment Camara Jones, class, cliff analogy, Delmar Boulevard, Karl Alexander, Keon Gilbert, Long Shadow, Melody Goodman, Nicholas Kristof, race, social determinants, Steven Woolf, zip code Edit

Delmar Boulevard, Geo-mapping, and the Social Determinants of Health

The social determinants of health are those factors that affect people’s health status that are the result of the social situation in which ...

Kansas only state to increase number of uninsured: A how NOT to do it strategy

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Kansas only state to increase number of uninsured: A how NOT to do it strategy

The title of Alan Bavley’s article, “Kansas is only state to see an increase in its uninsured rate, survey says” , ( Kansas City Star, Augus...

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