As the PBS Newshour recently reported, Westminster, Massachusetts could be the first town in the United States to ban the sale of tobacco. As I watched the debate unfold among neighbors, I was shocked at the level of intensity with which citizens stepped up to defend the sale of tobacco in their town. At one […]
The Power of Preparation and Organization in Ebola Control
Obviously Ebola has been in the new of late, and most of the news coming to of West Africa has not been very encouraging; however, I came across a very interesting news tidbit about the effective treatment and control of disease spread in the 80,000 person community of Harbel in Liberia, essentially a company town […]
Can computers replace doctors?
“If a physician can be replaced by a computer, then he or she deserves to be replaced by a computer.” I recently went to a talk given by Dr. Warner Slack, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-President of the Center for Clinical Computing. During his talk on the cybermedicine and the […]
