More than 1,800 people in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have contracted the Ebola virus since March and the death …
Category: Global health
Stanford global health chief launches campaign to help contain Ebola outbreak in Liberia
Michele Barry, MD, director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, has launched a fundraising campaign to help combat the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, which …
Health workers use crowdsourced maps to respond to Ebola outbreak in Guinea
Médecins Sans Frontières and other international aid organizations are furiously working to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea and nearby African countries. Latest reports …
Sex work in Uganda: Risky business
We step across a sewage channel to enter an unmarked, tin-roof building, leaving the bright sunlight for the dark corridors of a 23-room inn in …
From the Stanford Medicine archives: A Q&A with actor Matt Damon on water and health
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. Old it may be, but The Rhime …
Two Stanford students’ $20 device to treat clubfoot in developing countries
In the video above, Stanford graduate students Jeff Yang and Ian Connolly demo their design for a brace to correct clubfoot in a way that's comfortable …
A brief look at the global anesthesia crisis in developing countries
In a recent KevinMD.com entry, Kelly McQueen, MD, discusses the critical shortage of anesthesiologists in developing nations. I know that anesthetics and equipment are in …
Image of the Week: Biosafety level 4
Earlier this week, we shared that Stanford researchers have identified Ebola's entry point into human cells. This striking image, from the Centers for Diseases Control …
Found: Ebola's entry point into human cells
The Ebola virus is a hideous thing. It disrupts both the endothelial cells lining blood vessels and interferes with coagulation, causing massive bleeding - not …
The good and bad sides of foreign aid
Year: 1994 Setting: Port Moresby General Hospital, Papua New Guinea Position: Chief medical officer for Chevron Oil Co. The wife of an expatriate employee has …
Adjustment is the Achilles heel of overseas ventures
Year: 1986 Place: Lome, Togo Position: Consultant in tropical diseases, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris I have been sent to West Africa by a French multinational …
AIDS in France
Year: 1987 Setting: Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France Position: Specialist in tropical diseases I am a consultant in tropical diseases at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in …
New test may offer inexpensive, portable option for typing blood
Determining the blood type of a patient or donor sample is a routine medical test that is often unavailable to health care workers in developing …
Japanese encephalitis in China
Year: 1988 Setting: Electricite de France clinic at Daya Bay, China Position: Resident physician A Japanese encephalitis epidemic has struck southern China and I am …
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity
Year: 2002 Setting: Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore Position: Private general practitioner I am the first and only non-Anglo-Saxon, foreign, private general practitioner in the city-state and …
The human condition
Year: 1979 Setting: George Washington University Hospital Position: Intern In sharing my global health background, I would be remiss if I did not talk about …