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Saying hello to Carl Zimmer

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Carl is cur­rently in Van­couver, and he was gra­cious enough to come out for drinks with us last night. This was after a great talk he gave on the how sci­ent­ists have been fol­low­ing the evol­u­tion­ary tracks of the H1N1 flu, so that folks can get a sense of (1) what it is, (2) […]

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Access to medicines: and for credit too!

Monday, November 9, 2009

Sonja says:
“No doubt many of you have seen Mike Gretes’ fant­astic talk at TEDx­Terry Talks 08. If you haven’t yet, there’s a treat in store for you! Check it out:

While I don’t have an ador­able goatee like Mike does, I share his enthu­si­asm for increas­ing world­wide access to essen­tial medi­cines. I also hap­pen to […]

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Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak: Jennifer Gardy

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

First talk of our TEDxTt 2009 event. Enjoy!

(If you want to leave a com­ment about the talk, please do so here).

Name: Jen­nifer Gardy
Talk Title: “Pub­lic Health in the 21st Cen­tury: the Open-Source Out­break”
Notes: UBC Alumni (Fac­ulty of Sci­ence, 2000).
Topic: Dr. Jen­nifer Gardy, an alum­nus speaker at the event, is co-leading the new gen­ome research […]

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Microbes as glass sculptures: in a word, beautiful.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Dear Luke,
I just saw a photo of your glass sculp­ture of HIV.
I can’t stop look­ing at it. Know­ing that mil­lions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life. Your sculp­ture, even as a photo, has made HIV much more real for me than any […]

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The Problem With the Healthcare Debate

Monday, September 28, 2009

With all the debate going on in the US about ‘Obama­care’ and health reform it is hard for Amer­ic­ans to not make com­par­is­ons to other sys­tems. The Cana­dian sys­tem has been used as an example by both the GOP and the Dems as an example of what we shouldn’t or should do. Nat­ur­ally, as a […]

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Does the name Dr. Krisana Kraisintu ring a bell? (If not, might be worth reading this)

Monday, September 14, 2009

A review of Cock­tail: A Play about the Life and HIV Drug Devel­op­ment Work of Dr. Kris­ana Krais­intu by Vince LiCata and Ping Chong

Truth be told, I don’t read plays very often, if at all. In fact, I’m ashamed to admit that I think the last one I read was back in high school […]

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A kind of medical Apartheid (or How much money are we spending on this swine flu thing?)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

First, take a quick peek at this Gapminder.org video for a gen­eral sense of the problem:

Now, this video is from May 2009, after the first few weeks of the ini­tial out­break, and it also has a focus on media rep­res­ent­a­tion, but with the recent worry over poten­tial vari­ants of the H1N1 virus rear­ing in the […]

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FAQ — To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate (Corbet Mix)

Friday, August 21, 2009

A new mother has just arrived her doctor’s office with a few questions…

Mrs. Chernos: Good after­noon Dr. Gal­way! How are you doing today?

Dr Gal­way: Oh I am just fine Mrs. Chernos, how are you and baby Car­o­lyn doing?

Mrs. C: We are great thank you! But the reason I made the appoint­ment is that Car­o­lyn is […]

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