Archive for September, 2011

Pregnancy Can Be Dangerous!

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »

Some 600,000 women die worldwide each year from pregnancy-related causes, and 98 percent of these deaths occur in developing countries. The major causes of maternal deaths in developing nations, in numerical order of importance, are hemorrhage, peripartum sepsis, abortion, eclampsia ...

What We Never Talked About In Medical School

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »

How would you work to improve the health of an entire community, rather than just one person at a time? We NEVER talked about this when I was in medical school, not even during our tiny public health course. I ...