NLN: Health Care Bill Passes House

As announced today by Kathleen A. Ream, director of Government Affairs of the National League of Nursing:
After months of debate and negotiations, the House of Representatives approved the most ambitious effort ever to change the country’s health care system, with 219 Democrats and one Republican voting for the bill and 39 Democrats voting against the [...]

CFS: Health, Culture, Body International Conference

Call for abstracts: An International and interdisciplinary conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body
Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Central Europe and Turkey
Mainz, Germany, 17-19 September 2010
The face of medicine is rapidly evolving: New developments in medicine, preventive and therapeutic interventions are raising novel ethical questions in societies undergoing fast demographic change [...]

CFP: Penn Medical Humanities Meeting

Call for proposals: Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium Eighth Annual Meeting, May 19-20, 2010
College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2010
Through the Lens of Time: Perspectives on Medicine and Health Care
The Eighth Annual Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium meeting will be held at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 South 22nd Street, (between Chestnut [...]

NY Times: Making Health Care Better

Featured in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine, the article “Making Health Care Better,” by David Leonhardt. It discusses evidence-base care through collaborations among physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners.
Concerning the history of health care, the article notes:
But there is one important way in which medicine never quite adopted the scientific method. The explosion of medical [...]