Weekly Highlights, July 12 –18

by Lillian Gu · 2009-07-18 19:43:00 UTC
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Add to your medical knowledge this week! Read up on Obstetric Fistulas, holes between the vagina and the bladder and/or the rectum due to difficult childbirth, Trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease carried by the Tsetse fly, and Rabies, a viral disease that is usually transmitted by an animal bite. And why hasn't polio been eradicated yet? Alanna pins it to failures in health systems.

Guest blogger Carol Dunn continues exploring the connections between Fear, Sex, and Pandemic, concluding that pandemic flu preparedness advocates didn't do such a good job in understanding these connections. (This was Part Four; be sure to check out Part One, Part Two and Part Three).

Guest blogger Michael Keizer argues for gendered health, "a thoughtful recognition of differences in gender whenever we consider a (global) health issue" in his post, Women's Health is a Red Herring (And So is Men's).

In this week's Friday Futures, Alanna discusses the cat and mouse chase between Counterfeit Medicine and the technology that detects it, such as RFID tags and low-cost mass spectrometry.

Alanna's Recommended Reading has interesting articles on swine flu, mobile phones and health, and circumcision and HIV. Also check out her recommendations for Bridge Blogs, blogs which help outsiders understand a culture. And if you are inspired to start your own blog, take a look at What Not to Blog for tips for new global health bloggers.

Lastly, this week's Comment of the Week was submitted by Nneoma N on the Trypanosomiasis post. Don't forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments, so you can be the next winner, and earn a charity gift on Change.org!

Lillian Gu
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