MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'central asia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:34 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4724180&cid=t_170719_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F-upChOONzUI%2F Questions over Greg Mortenson’s stories – 60 Minutes – CBS News. Filed under: books Tagged: 60 Minutes, Afghanistan, CBS News, Central Asia Institute, Greg Mortenson, Korphe, Pakistan, Three Cups of Tea (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4724180 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:30:31 +0100 4724180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265687&cid=t_170719_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FueRzNG8I_pU%2F By Malou InnocentPresident Obama released his Afghanistan war review today. It highlights progress on the battlefield against insurgents, the success of Special Forces operations and drone strikes, and achievements in training the Afghan security forces. I have four thoughts on the matter: First, scattered throughout the document are passages such as “al-Qa’ida’s senior leadership in Pakistan is weaker,” “[a]l-Qa’ida’s senior leadership has been depleted,” and “al-Qa’ida’s leadership cadre have diminished.” However, can we deter more jihadists than our efforts help to inspire? After all, “fighting them over there so they don’t fight us here” did not deter Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad and his inco... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265687 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:31:24 +0100 4265687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4009961&cid=t_170719_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F09%2F28%2Fcentral-asia%2F A 19 year old patient who has just been diagnosed with XDR-TB – the form of tuberculosis that is resistant to all available tuberculosis medication. The doctors just found out that he cannot be treated. The patient’s mother has died of TB and his brother is also sick with a drug resistant form of the bacteria. He however responds to some of the medication and is recovering. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4009961 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:52:46 +0100 4009961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3671672&cid=t_170719_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FrAaybV1oE8Q%2F By Tom G. PalmerCAFMI Director Mirsulzhan Namazaliev at 2009 Cato University Kyrgyz libertarians are leading a series of coordinated voluntary efforts to provide emergency aid to the victims of the vicious attacks of the last few days in their country and to promote peace throughout the nation and the region.  I’ve been in regular touch with our friends there, and on Tuesday evening I talked to Central Asian Free Market Institute (CAFMI) Director Mirsulzhan Namazaliev by Skype, as he was interrupted by a stream of volunteers working late into the night in the CAFMI offices.  He made their resolution clear: “We are helping those who are suffering, but we are doing more.  For me personally this is not only a fight for life.  It is a fight for freedom.  We don’t want to be rule... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3671672 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:29:58 +0100 3671672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442293&cid=t_170719_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fgoodbye-old-kashgar.php To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It. The city is Kashgar, in the far west of China. I have read that Kashgar is the large city furthest from oceans on all directions. It's a typical story of developers wanting to develop. You read articles like this about Beijing all the time (or did, I assume that most of the developing to be done has been done). One issue that I'm curious about though, my understanding is that China (and East Asia in general) has fewer buildings of great antiquity than in the West because so much of the monumental architecture was in wood. This results in ancient cities being viewed as relatively ephemeral, with the elements (especially fire) taking what humans don't eventually tear down and reprocess. So there is very little of the earlier dynasties in th... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442293 Thu, 28 May 2009 03:17:00 +0100 2442293