The Human Animal Medicine Project has moved to the University of WashingtonAs of September, 2013, the Human Animal Medicine Project has officially moved to its new home at the University of Washington, where Dr. Rabinowitz is now a faculty member with appointments in Environmental/Occupational Health and Global Health. UW will be an exciting new home...

A recent ProMed posting (Saturday, May 4 2013  Volume 2013 : Number 216) provides an update on the outbreak in China of the H7N9 strain of avian influenza, which as of May 1 has resulted in 127 confirmed human cases, of which 26 (20.5%) have been fatal.  While the virus does not appear to have caused significant human-human transmission, the route of...

Recently a colleague sent me an article that appeared to build on the concept of “One Health Ethics” mentioned in this blog last year (see OneHealth ethics) . Two veterinarians, enrolled in the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have examined the concepts of human welfare,...

In considering the different aspects of integrated approaches to human, animal and environmental health along a One Health paradigm, so many of the challenges seem to boil down to the challenge of how to get information to flow in ways it has not in the past. Here are some examples:  Disease Surveillance: A number of groups, including the National Academy...

A 60 year old factory worker was seen at the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program for an elevated urine mercury level. He worked in a factory making mercury vapor light bulbs. The company doctor had removed him from work because of a high mercury level, but even staying home the level of mercury in his urine continued to rise. The workman’s...

 I just finished reading my copy of the new book Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach us about Health and the Science of Healing, by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers. It is a ground-breaking book and essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between human and animal medicine. The authors illustrate, through a large number...