Joanne Silberner
Multimedia reporter at Freelance
Freelance multimedia journalist. Medical research, global health, health policy, Covid-19. DM open. Story ideas welcome. @[email protected]
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Jan 23, 2025 |
bmj.com | Joanne Silberner
Joanne SilbernerBainbridge Island, Washington, USAjoanne.silberner{at}gmail.comIn 1967 newly qualified doctor Richard Cash was sent to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to respond to one of the many cholera epidemics that swept through the region. The treatment at the time was intravenous therapy to replace lost fluids, but such a resource intensive process was inappropriate in a country where funding and trained personnel were not available at anywhere near the scale needed.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
scientificamerican.com | Joanne Silberner
To describe the destructive effects of intense health anxiety to his young doctors in training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, psychiatrist Brian Fallon likes to quote 19th-century English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley: “The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”That weeping from other parts of the body may come in the form of a headache that, in the mind of its sufferer, is flagging a brain tumor.
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Nov 11, 2024 |
bmj.com | Joanne Silberner
Joanne SilbernerBainbridge Island, Washington, USAjoanne.silberner{at}gmail.comDonald Trump is the new US president after an ill tempered campaign that saw abortion dominate on the Democratic side but healthcare a minor part of the overall election discourse.
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Oct 26, 2024 |
boisestatepublicradio.org | Joanne Silberner |Illia Ponomarenko
Dr. Richard Cash, who played a key role in the testing and implementation of an inexpensive and easy treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases that has saved tens of millions of lives, died at home in Cambridge, Mass., from brain cancer this week, his wife by his side. He was 83. His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something so simple that people can be trained to do it at home.
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Oct 26, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Joanne Silberner
Dr. Richard Cash, who played a key role in the testing and implementation of an inexpensive and easy treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases that has saved tens of millions of lives, died at home in Cambridge, Mass., from brain cancer this week, his wife by his side. He was 83. His greatest achievement — oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea — is something so simple that people can be trained to do it at home.
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Doing an AMA on Reddit now about hypochondria https://t.co/qP6FpqPdjN
Richard Cash, who died this week, played a major role in developing oral rehydration therapy, which has saved tens of millions of lives https://t.co/bdn4TYUFlo
Thirty years ago I did a series of stories on Toby Quitslund's fight against breast cancer for NPR. Here's an update, put together by the brilliant @Kevin_Kniestedt for @KUOW https://t.co/zlaGCcn8qa https://t.co/ZeGKKYh0pc