October 2013  NewVision; Every year, about 1,500 girls in Uganda die from complications resulting from unsafe abortion contributing to the slow progress to reduce the number of women who die due to pregnancy-related complications.   “Abortion is hidden in the heamorrhage and sepsis figures but it is not captured. They …

October 2013 TheAtlantic; Marco Rubio on Monday introduced the “Delay Until Fully Functional Act” to postpone the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate until six months after the government could certify “that the exchange website is fully functional.” Ten Democratic senators have now signed on to a letter, drafted by New Hampshire …

October 2013 BMJ;  Compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) at non-profit hospitals in the United States are associated with the hospitals’ patient satisfaction ratings and employment of high technology, but not with their performance on quality measures, financial strength, or provision of charity care, a new study has found.1 In …

October 2013 BMJ; In May 2013, the World Health Assembly recognised that renewed attention to the “health workforce crisis” is central to achieving quality healthcare through universal health coverage.1 2 Next month, the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health will convene to agree on what can and should …

October 2013 BMJ;The NHS in England should consider adopting services from abroad to meet its daunting efficiency targets, says the healthcare regulator Monitor. A new report 1 from the regulator said that current productivity measures and staff pay restraint were unlikely to be sufficient to meet NHS England’s target2 for …

October 2013 TheNewTorkTimes; Rosa Isela Sandate kicked her drinking habit about six months ago and swears she will never go back.“I used to drink three or four a day,” she said. She would down a Coke or a Boing!, a tooth-jangling sweet local drink, at every meal. Her belly grew …

October 2013 SciDevNet; I was invited to moderate a panel at the World Health Summit in Berlin this week. The focus of the session was social media’s role in global health.   Within the first three hours of the summit, two other sessions had acknowledged that global health governance needed …

October 2013 IIPDigital; The United States is expanding its partnership with African institutions and scientists for research into some of the most vexing health problems plaguing the continent and world. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) October 18 announced 10 new grants totaling up to $17 million over the next …

October 2013 theAtlantic; Have you ever imagined what it would be like if villains could email a respiratory virus to the world? Do you drift to sleep at night dreaming of the health crises to come as octogenarians steadily expand their ranks? Laurie Garrett has and does. She’s an award-winning …

October 2013 GroundUp; The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is a statutory body that regulates health workers. It registers doctors and disciplines them if they do something wrong. If it had to perform its tasks properly, patients would benefit. Instead, according to several organisations and doctors, the HPCSA’s …