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Consumers May Not Get A Clear Picture Of The Process When Food Gets Inspected And Recalled
Consumers usually find out pretty quickly if the meat they"re planning to throw on the grill has been recalled.

UC Irvine To Fire Nurse Who Questioned Unsafe Patient Care Practices
Registered nurses and hospital employees will hold a patient care vigil Tuesday night, at UC Irvine Medical Center (UCIMC), to protest the administration"s retaliatory actions against Ethel Mark, an RN who has worked in the hospital"s cardiac care unit for the last seven years as a model patient advocate. Ms. Mark was informed that she could expect to be terminated by the beginning of July.
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Race Plays Role In Diagnosis And Treatment
CNN reports that African Americans and whites are treated differently by doctors. "While it"s extremely difficult to tell in any given situation how much race -- consciously or unconsciously -- plays a role in a doctor"s decision making, multiple studies over several decades have found doctors make different decisions for black patients and white patients even when they have the same medical problems and the same insurance."
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Wellcome Trust To Give $50M To Boost Health Research In Africa

The Wellcome Trust on Thursday pledged 30 million pounds or about $50 million to support health research at more than 50 African institutions, Nature reports (Nayar, 7/1). The money will fund seven partnerships that aim to boost health research capacity in Africa. It was unveiled at the World Conference of Science Journalists in London, according to SciDev.Net (Nordlingx, 7/2). The partnerships will be "led by an African research institution, and spread across 18 countries on the continent," according to Nature. The funds will be used to "revamp laboratories, to train laboratory personnel and to fund grants. The trust hopes that the consortia will develop into thriving research communities that benefit public health by methods such as reducing infectious diseases and improving sanitation. Better-equipped labs and improved career prospects for researchers should also help to stem the brain drain of Africa"s most able scientists," Nature writes. "There are other collaborations and networks, but the lack of research capacity is a huge problem and it"s going to take more than one initiative to achieve this," Jimmy Whitworth, head of international activities at the Wellcome Trust, said. The Nature article includes additional information about how African research is funded (7/1). SciDev.Net includes a list of institutions that will receive funding (7/2). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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