Posts Tagged ‘ health ’

Something more than selling fruit

Something more than selling fruit

October 1, 2011

The navigation system is scolding me with its female voice in Portuguese, I missed yet another turn as I cruise passed yet another apple orchard. It's the end of September and I'm in what feels like the middle of nowhere Portugal, late for my appointment to visit the Frubaça...

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Our Gadgets, Our Planet

Our Gadgets, Our Planet

May 9, 2011

  This week I will meet up with David Kousemaker of TechTravels to interview him about his work on the issue of where our old gadgets end up. More specifically we will delve into a topic that the mainstream world only occasionally alludes to when they mention how "somewhere in...

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Big Pharma Ads on Their Way

Big Pharma Ads on Their Way

January 20, 2010

Anyone who has ever been to the United States, or watched commercials on American Television somehow, knows of the never-ending barrage of Pharmaceutical ads that have come to take over the gaps in between programming. They feature excessively clean and happy people walking through parks or high-fiving each other...

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Cuban Medical Talk

Cuban Medical Talk

January 14, 2009

My friend Chris Lydon posted an excellent Radio Open Source recently, as he is making his way around Cuba. As opposed to the highly revered personalities and voices he usually offers us, this time Chris runs into three American medical students who have been studying medicine in Cuba...

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Health Consumers of Europa

Health Consumers of Europa

November 17, 2008

Currently flipping through the European Health Consumer Index for 2008, which seems to rate nations (in Europe) based on how well the health system treats patients and how empowered patients are. Though as I flip through it, they frequently point out they are not trying to claim to know...

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