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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

In the developing world, "mHealth projects are launching at an exponential rate," declared a recent issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine. We debated the types of policies that would be most likely to encourage innovations that make a positive difference for individuals and populations. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. So being well and also potentially periods of dying.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. There’s a little paranoia in the family for good reason.

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Digesting Trump’s Big Budget Law

Physician's Weekly

Among the takeaways from this week’s episode: As details of Trump’s tax and domestic policy law come into focus, it’s clear that many immigrants in the country legally stand to lose government benefits, especially health coverage. By Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues.