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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Commentary: Health care reform and its potential impact on academic medical centers.

30 Oct 2009 President Obama's administration has committed to significant changes in the current health care system to address three issues: access, cost, and quality. Leaders at academic medical centers (AMCs) must acknowledge the root cause of the problems ... Read more...

Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: A pilot study of South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who had been incarcerated in Vietnamese reeducation camps and resettled in the United States disclosed significant mental health problems associated with torture and traumatic head ... Read more...

Why New Zealand must rapidly halve its greenhouse gas emissions.

7 Oct 2009 New Zealand must commit to substantial decreases in its greenhouse gas emissions, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change on human health, both here and internationally. We have the fourth highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Politics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Academic medicine should start at home. 30 Oct 2009
• Academic medicine as a bridge to peace: building Arab and Israeli cooperation. 30 Oct 2009
• Commentary: Health care reform and its potential impact on academic medical centers. 30 Oct 2009
• Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture. 30 Oct 2009
• Salim "Slim" Abdool Karim: attacking AIDS in South Africa. Interview by Amy Maxmen. 24 Oct 2009
• European health systems face scrutiny in US debate. 22 Oct 2009
• The Baucus bill and the hope for reform. 12 Oct 2009
• Why New Zealand must rapidly halve its greenhouse gas emissions. 7 Oct 2009
• Economic sanctions towards North Korea. 7 Oct 2009
• Sanctions against scientists threaten progress. 6 Oct 2009
• Four health care reforms for 2009. 5 Oct 2009
• Disruption and innovation in health care. 5 Oct 2009
• FDA regulation of tobacco: politics, law, and the public's health. 5 Oct 2009
• Coin hoards speak of population declines in Ancient Rome. 3 Oct 2009
• [Ferenc Flór (1809-1871) was born two hundred years ago] 2 Oct 2009
• Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Oct 2009
• The politics of contraception: policies lost and regained. 29 Sep 2009
• 'I am willing to take the risk': politics, policy and the translation of the hospice ideal. 29 Sep 2009
• Assessing coastal plumes in a region of multiple discharges: the U.S.-Mexico border. 29 Sep 2009
• Ecological and economic analysis of poaching of the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Nepal. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Politics'

Definition: Activities concerned with governmental policies, functions, etc.

Descriptor UI: D011057

Alternative terms: Politics; Decentralization; Voting; Political Activity; Activities, Political; Activity, Political; Political Activities; Political Factors; Factor, Political; Factors, Political; Political Factor; Conservatism; Liberalism;

Related Mesh Headings: Dissent and Disputes;

Tree Number: I01.738;

Technical Notes: specify geog if pertinent