Glia has launched a campaign to teach others how to create tourniquets, and to create tourniquets for distribution to civilians in Ukraine who are at risk of serious injury and death. We are fundraising to manufacture tourniquets for export to Ukraine from Gaza and/or Canada. Donate generously here. We have…

Are you an Emergency Doctor, resident or medical student interested in global health and international medicine? Sign up now to come to Gaza! Introducing the Emergency Medicine Academic Collaboration The Keys of Health project has been training physicians in Canada for a few years now with good success. Training Palestinian physicians in countries such as Canada…

Tarek Loubani.1, Ugo Vallauri.2, Dorotea Gucciardo.1, Alissa Centivany.3 1. Glia 2. Restart Project 3. Western University It’s easy to overlook rundown and broken medical devices in Gaza given how many other problems and shortages there are. Numerous medical devices — sometimes rare and expensive — don’t work because they are…

Seven medical students who complained against Zachary Kuehner and made a “call to action for [the Undergraduate Medical Education and Postgraduate Medical Education offices] to address [his] abhorrent behaviour” are now being threatened with sanctions from Memorial University’s medical school up to and including expulsion. This according to an inside…

Note: See follow-up story here. Dr. Zachary Kuehner, MD, writes, talks and behaves like modern white supremacists —all while wearing the doctor’s white coat to veneer his ideology in respectability. Zach has not apologized or retracted any of his positions or statements. When he faced consequences for them, instead he…

Lots has happened in the five months since we asked for your help to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers in Gaza. Our crowdfunding campaign raised $118,425 (CAD) thanks to the support of numerous people like you who donated and spread the word. …

Everybody knew it was only a matter of time. Over the past week, the worst fears of public health officials and humanitarian agencies working in Gaza materialized in an exponential increase in cases that poses untold danger for its residents. The situation is made worse by a nearly 15-year blockade…

Acknowledgements: Dr. Alex Pavlosky researched the proposal presented here with the help of Jake Bender. Dr. Sydney Todorovich wrote a separate analysis. This article is based on their work. Full text of protocol: An Institutional Protocol for Collecting, Decontaminating, and Reservicing Reusable Respirators and Filters. …

Acknowledgements: Dr. Alex Pavlosky and Jake Bender researched an important proposal; and Dr. Sydney Todorovich wrote an excellent summary. This article is based on their work. Note: Fill out this survey if you have or want reusable respirators. We are running out of disposable N95 respirators just as researchers seem…