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Caplan Canvasses the Globe for Lessons on Health Care
Why does the rest of the world get it when it comes to health care and we don't? Perhaps we should take out our globes and world atlases and examine other countries to see how they do it and find some answers, suggests Arthur Caplan in his most recent MSNBC... (read the rest)
Stop Bailing Out Wall Street and Help Global Health
As reported in the LA Times health blog, Booster Shots, a grim economy is making global health organizations nervous that nations and individual donors are going to back out on their financial promises. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, has gone a step further: arguing for the US... (read the rest)
Ghana Gets a Bioethics Commission
How do you know that bioethics has made it big time in a country, in my humble opinion? Their government creates a bioethics commission, of course! According to ModernGhana.com, UNESCO has bought bioethics, via commission, to Ghana and has empaneled a 16 member group to discuss important bioethical issues play... (read the rest)
Contaminated Chinese Milk Turns Deadly...For Company Execs
Two men responsible for the melamine contamination scandal in China, Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping, were given the death penalty by the Chinese government today and the company's chairwoman, Tian Wenhua, was given life in prison for being responsible for the melamine-contaminated milk responsible for killing six children and hundreds... (read the rest)
Mexico's Healthcare System Wins Red Tape Award
And you think your health insurance company is bad? Just be happy you don't live in Mexico. There it takes two physicians, four bureaucrats, and quadruplicate forms to get life-saving medications in that country, and as Cecilia Velazquez, winner of this year's red tape "prize" in Mexico has brought to... (read the rest)
World AIDS Day: How Far We've Come...and Still How Far There is to Go
Today marks the 20th World AIDS Day. In these last 20 years, medical research has sparked marvelous breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS around the world--even in developing countries where for many years since the outbreak of this once-deadly, now nearly chronic, disease treatment was inaccessible due to cost. Yet... (read the rest)
Ethic-Mart
Chris MacDonald at The Business Ethics Blog has pointed out that Wal-Mart may be the "next Nike", jumping on the business ethics bandwagon in China. The retailing giant, often criticized for its business practices, is now trying to influence more than 1,000 of its suppliers by raising its human rights... (read the rest)
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