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5th June to 1st July 2016, New York City, USA. In order to enable humanitarian aid workers who are actively engaged in the field to attend the training program, and in an attempt to create a teaching program which reflects the complexity and intensity of the conditions humanitarian workers face, the IDHA […]

1st July 2016, Manchester, UK. Following extremely successful Festival of Public Health UKs in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health, in association with the Manchester Medical Society Public Health Forum, is pleased to announce that the Festival will be returning on July 1st 2016. Due […]

A simple app that enables you to save pubmed abstracts. You may add a personal note to abstracts. You may also email the abstracts and export the saved data. The app is for free. Made by an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Vikrant Azad. I coded this app for my personal use and […]

12th April 2016, Brussels, Belgium. What is the rationale for this initiative? Digital revolution is radically changing how European citizens are living and facing their social and health care habits: a recent eurobarometer survey showed that 6 out of 10 Europeans had looked for their health information on the internet […]

The way we use the web has changed over the years and so has the technology that comes with this behavioral change. To get an address or a telephone number we simply hit up google and perform a search. 50% (1) of the time we do so, we do it via […]

Start: 9th May 2016, Cape Town, South Africa. Echo in Africa is a collaborative project between the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) and SUNheart which takes place at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town South Africa. Now in its third year, BSE members are invited to volunteer to take part in […]

How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped. The gap between rich and poor is reaching new extremes. Credit Suisse recently revealed that the richest 1% have now accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. This occurred a […]

EchoCalc  EchoCalc is the official App of the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) made freely available to download. It contains all of the BSE normal reference values for transthoracic echocardiography and other widely used reference values, including those for prosthetic aortic and mitral valves. The app is free to download and […]

2016 Yellow Book CDC Health Information for International Travel (commonly called the Yellow Book) is published every two years by CDC as a reference for those who advise international travelers about health risks. The Yellow Book is written primarily for health professionals, although others will find it useful. Key Features […]