On Health 2016 April

Is technology and adventure therapy the new prescription for depression?

29/04/2016 Dr Zainab Samaan

Current treatments for depression are often seen as inadequate, either in terms of accessibility or effectiveness. But what could the next step be for treatment? Research published today in Pilot and Feasibility Studies evaluated what barriers could impact the use of behavioral activation programs for major depressive disorders and here, co-author Dr Zainab Samaan discusses what this might mean for future research and practice.

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Policy, politics and providers

27/04/2016 Jan Foster

Jan Foster writes here about the complicated maze of policy changes for the NHS, and asks the Director of Policy and Strategy at the NHS Providers about how they help to implement new policies and support their members.

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Malaria Control among neglected populations along the China-Myanmar Border

25/04/2016 Jian-wei Xu

Infectious Diseases of Poverty has published an article investigating the risk of malaria on the China-Myanmar border and how this has changed over the years. Jian-wei Xu explains more about the work in this blog.

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Malaria and the role of community health workers

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22/04/2016 Dr Emilie Louise Akiko Matsumoto-Takahashi & Prof Shigeyuki Kano

World Malaria Day takes place on 25 April and in this blog, authors of an article published in Tropical Medicine and Health talk about the role community health workers have on raising awareness of malaria.

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Zika-associated mental health burdens: is little knowledge a dangerous thing?

20/04/2016 Andrew Taylor-Robinson

Today Infectious Diseases of Poverty has published an opinion piece on the recent Zika outbreak. Here, co-author of the article explains more about how little knowledge of the virus could be dangerous to those living in areas at risk.

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Snapshot from a revolution: ILC insights that caught my attention

20/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

Jeffrey V. Lazarus looks beyond the headlines to highlight some quietly important points that emerged at the recent International Liver Congress (April 13-17, 2016 in Barcelona).

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UNGASS 2016 commentary series: a historic opportunity for international drug policy reform?

18/04/2016 Timothy Mackey & Meredith Meacham

In 2014, Harm Reduction Journal published an article that examined the legal compatibility of Mexico’s ‘ley de nacromenudeo‘ drug policy reform in the context of broader changes occurring within international drug policy. With a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem set to take place in just a few days, co-author Timothy Mackey and Meredith Meacham explain why now is a crucial time to fundamentally rethink the future of global governance for drug policy.

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The same debates, 25 years later

16/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

The experts in the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) Hep-CORE advisory group provide a window on the broad range of hepatitis activities and perspectives in Europe today. Hep-CORE PI Jeffrey Lazarus has been interviewing some of them about how they came to work with viral hepatitis, how the field has been changing, and what new research is called for.

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Without a vaccine, eliminating HCV will be a huge challenge

15/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

The experts from the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) Hep-CORE advisory group provide a great window on the diversity of hepatitis activity and perspectives in the region. In this series of short interviews, Hep-CORE PI Jeffrey Lazarus asked them how they came to work with viral hepatitis, how the field has been changing, and where new research is called for.

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Hepatitis: the International Liver Congress nine years on

14/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

Jeffrey Lazarus talks here about the changes he has seen in the hepatitis field since the International Liver Congress in 2007.

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