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On the Front Lines: The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Addressing Sex Trafficking”
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Healing Health Care Disparities Through Education
Harvard Medical School — Oct. 17-18
Suggested by the AMWA Diversity and Inclusion Section. A great potential to improve health disparities. Click here for conference information.
Dr. Rachel Remen — Stories about Finding Meaning in Your Work
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UAB's NHLBI T32 Post-doctoral Fellowship Positions
Applications from statistical and other cardiovascular scientists for postdoctoral positions in Statistical Genetics pertaining to Heart, Lung and Blood phenotypes are being accepted.
Call for Applications: NPA Copello Health Advocacy Fellowship
2013 Copello Health Advocacy Fellowship — National Physicians Alliance
Study: Mental health screening in primary care helps veterans
Medical Xpress
Veterans who receive mental health screening during primary care visits are generally getting adequate follow-up treatment, but the process for acquiring care could be improved.
Most providers skip tobacco discussions with teenagers
Medscape (free login required)
Less than a third of adolescents in a 2011 survey reported that their healthcare providers asked them about tobacco use or advised them not to use tobacco, according to an article.
Hospitals in the US get ready for Ebola
The New York Times
Hospitals nationwide are hustling to prepare for the first traveler from West Africa who arrives in the emergency room with symptoms of infection with the Ebola virus.
Robin Williams' death shines spotlight on mental illness
By Jessica Taylor
The World Health Organization shares that every year more than 800,000 people die from suicide — this roughly corresponds to one death every 40 seconds.
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