Month: April 2013

Making films against social injustice

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Just Bee Films was formed by producer Helen Vonderheide in 2011 when she began developing Sold, the company’s first feature film. Sold is based on the true story and international best-selling book about two teenage British sisters sold into marriage in the Yemen by their father. Vonderheide has always had a passion for telling socially … Read more

Diagnosing Breast Cancer in Uganda

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Here’s a program that I think deserves some good press. Working with Imaging the World, a non-profit group that’s trying to bring diagnostic imaging capabilities to under-served parts of the globe, Chris Duncan, a medical student at the University of Vermont, is trying to implement a program this summer that uses a diagnostic algorithm and … Read more

U.S. Survey Highlights the Impacts of Drug Shortages on Patients and Care

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The results of a national survey of health professionals in the United States that was published recently in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy shows that cancer patients are suffering the effects of cancer drug shortages in the form of higher medication costs, delays in chemotherapy, treatment changes, and increased risk of medication errors. According to the … Read more

International Study Finds Additional Links between Mother’s Poor Health and Young Children’s Death

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A recent study published in PLOS Medicine by researchers from Washington, Oxford, and Witwatersand Universities found that in poorer countries, young children risk of dying begins to rise in the months prior to their mother’s death when she is seriously ill. According to the paper, these results add to the existing body of evidence which indicates that … Read more