Expanding the access conversation: An edX course on global health quality

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: Expanding the open-access conversation on health care

Natural philosophy once spanned the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. Scientific disciplines and medical specialties have rapidly achieved independence, and the availability of the internet and open-access publishing promises a further expansion of knowledge. Nevertheless, a consideration of the grounding concepts and ethical principles that underlie health care remains paramount. It...

Expanding Patient Access to Quality Sleep Health Care through Telemedicine.

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2016 In January the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) officially launched AASM SleepTM, a state-ofthe-art telemedicine platform that was designed specifically for the sleep field by the AASM. This milestone represents the dawn of a new era for sleep medicine. Through AASM SleepTM, the potential now exists for any patient in any state o...

Expanding global access to phantom pain care

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Expanding Global Health Problem

This review provides a summary of the global epidemiology of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). It is now clear that IBD is increasing worldwide and has become a global emergence disease. IBD, which includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), has been considered a problem in industrial-urbanized societies and attributed largely to a Westernized lifestyle and other associated envi...

Putting quality on the global health agenda.

3 In public comments on the European reforms, the drug industry raised objections to the release of clinical study reports. Although companies have no trade-secrecy right to hide safety data on medicines, they make a reasonable point regarding the danger of substantial competitive harm from full transparency. Governments offer non–patent-based incentives for special categories of drugs, such as...