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Steward Health Care to close more Massachusetts hospitals modernhealthcare.com/providers/stew…

Public Health jobs Research Fellow in Applied Statistics, working on Healthy Urban Places: tinyurl.com/mv7tab9y University of Liverpool Department of Public Health, Policy & Systems Ref: 082826 £45,585 - £57,698 pa Closes 12 Aug 2024 tinyurl.com/4xaxzpkd

CFP: The Senses in High Medieval to Early Modern Medicine

My department is hiring!! Should be of particular interest to those working in narrative medicine and medical anthropologists. Reach out if you have any Qs! apply.interfolio.com/148713

Great article re historical analysis of school nurses' roles promoting menstrual health with implications for menstrual equity now and in the future @AmJPublicHealth #histnursing #histmed ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…

My accompanying editorial re importance of inclusive menstrual health education AJPH Bjoring Nursing History Center UVA School of Nursing #histmed ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/114/9

Call for Papers: Medical humanities in the 21st Century UEA Medical & Health Humanities MedicalHumanities@NCLUni Medical Humanities Uni Vienna Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group, Oxford Family and Medical Law Research Group, Oxford Durham Institute for Medical Humanities King's CHH Medicine, Health and Wellbeing in the Humanities Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Edinburgh Health and Medical Humanities Network

NEW: Our RI Life Science Hub just awarded $98K+ in grants to support education, research and innovation in our life sciences sector. These grants will enhance student learning, foster collaboration and boost industry growth as we position RI to lead the U.S. in life sciences.

Thrilled to see #Slouch reviewed here as a "robust" and "astonishing" book, and I love the image of Larry David. Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s jessica papin Penn Arts & Sciences #history

Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price : Shots - Health News : NPR npr.org/sections/shots…

The application deadline for our Junior Scholars program is coming up soon. Youth from grades 6 through 12 are eligible to participate in our free Saturday in-person program. The final deadline is 8/28. #SchomburgCenter ow.ly/IKI750SVo1X

A judge has approved an APA for Lifespan to take over 2 of Steward's MA hospitals for a $175M purchase price. The deal still needs to gain approval from regulators, but Lifespan execs expect it to close by Oct. pbn.com/lifespan-agree…

Lots to say here, but 1st: this article has a very fun note: “A correction was made on Sept. 6, 2024: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misidentified the heart’s location. It is not in the abdominal cavity.” nytimes.com/2024/09/06/hea… via @NYTimes

I’m sympathetic but as a historian who has studied a century and a half’s worth of various flawed metrics for diagnosing obesity, I’m deeply skeptical that the “answer” could possibly be that we just haven’t devised the right metric yet. nytimes.com/2024/09/06/hea… via @NYTimes

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Call for papers for history of nursing, medicine, and science conference UVA School of Nursing Bjoring Nursing History Center #histnursing #histmed