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Passport Medicine: Five Tips from The Bakersfield Californian’s Foreign Doctor Series

The Bakersfield Californian recently took on one of the most ambitious health care quality projects I have seen attempted by an outlet outside of the really big markets. One reporter, Kellie Schmitt, wanted to answer two questions: whether most of the doctors in Kern County were from another country and whether that mattered.

Living the Bill of Rights: Professor Clem Work Sets a High Bar for Journalists and Citizens

A tribute to a deeply influential and inspiring journalism professor, now retiring from the University of Montana.

Treating Patients Without Tools: Haiti's Diabetes Crisis Day 3

There was a 20-year-old man. He was like a skeleton and breathing like a chimney. He looked chronically ill. He was seen two weeks ago and given insulin. However the nuns in the orphanage where he lives didn't give it to him because they feel he has TB not diabetes.

An Electrifying Idea: Cut Carbon from the Port

The Clean Trucks program and other innovations at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach have significantly reduced the diesel emissions around the ports, meaning important public health ramifications for the surrounding communities who are at higher risk of respiratory disease, cardiac disease and  cancer because of the particulate matter and smog caused by diesel emissions.

Swine Flu/H1N1: Still a Pandemic, But Why?

Hey, remember swine flu? The H1N1 virus causing it is still around, but flu activity has declined sharply. Yet the World Health Organization is still calling swine flu a pandemic. Why?

The Los Angeles Times’ Thomas H. Maugh II writes:

Doc Gurley's Ground Rules for Haiti

Dr. R. Jan Gurley, better known as Doc Gurley, wears many hats. She is a physician at the San Francisco Department of Public Health homeless clinic, but also a blogger and columnist.

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, professor of internal medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine, is the acting chair of the National Mental Health Association. In 2003, he was invited by then U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to serve on the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health.

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