Michael Kenney, M.D.: colonial medical officer and tropical medicine specialist

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Physician Michael Kenney was born Mizrah Konn on Jan. 28, 1904 in Rowno, Russia, to Jewish parents. He married Polina Lucja Bronberg, a Jewish opera singer from Luck, Russia. After studying bacteriology, immunology and serology, he became a resident physician of the Busu Melo district in the Belgian Congo. In Feb. 1940, they immigrated to the US using false documents to escape persecution. Dr. Kenney later served in British Guiana and at the State University of New York where he became a renowned parasitologist. He died on Apr. 29, 1982.

Physicians, Medical professions, Biography, Kenney, Michael

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The different faces of the AIDS pandemic

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Differences between the US and the Czech Republic regarding the AIDS pandemic are attributable to its different stages in the two countries. While the epidemic is just emerging in the Czech Republic, it has existed for about 15 years in the US. Its social implications also vary for each country, one of which is a well-entrenched democracy while the other is an emerging one. Thus, major public policies concerning the AIDS pandemic differ in the two countries.

Health aspects, United States, Czech Republic, AIDS (Disease), Epidemiology

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Keeping care in health care reform

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Newly-graduate health care professionals face a changing health care system. Technological and regulatory changes have altered the roles and responsibilities of health practitioners. Changes involve health care cost containment, the emergence of private managed care and the strengthening of provider-patient relationships and ethics. Practitioners should also strive to make caring and not financial gain the most important part of health care reform.

Editorial, Health care industry, Medical personnel, Health care reform

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