Cecil B Wilson

All blog entries by Cecil B Wilson


20th June 2016
The World Medical Association (WMA) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) participated in a satellite symposium for the 6600 cardiologists attending the World Heart Federation Congress in Mexico City, Jun...

23rd November 2015
Climate change is the greatest global health challenge of the 21st century. It is important that the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) talks planned for December in Paris include an understan...

4th April 2015
U.S. military health care professionals serve in a variety of settings, more diverse than is typically found in the civilian environment. In all settings, military and civilian, health care professionals face innumerable conflicts in the practice of their...

1st December 2014
Delegates from the World Medical Association, lead by Dr. Xavier Deau, President of the World Medical Association (WMA), attended the 2014 Global Health Forum in Taiwan. It is a two-day event which began November 30 and which was joint hosted by the Minist...

8th August 2013
I have taken at every opportunity over the past year to describe what are in my opinion the three big concerns facing the medical profession and the World Medical Association (WMA) now and in the future. These are the moral imperative of ethics in medicine...

30th July 2013
"My focus this year will be strength and progress through unity”. With those words W. Alan Harmon, MD set the mark for his year as president of the Florida Medical Association (FMA) in his inaugural address July 27 at the annual meeting of the FMA in Orlan...

26th July 2013
Physician delegates from around the state are here in Orlando for the annual meeting of the House of Delegates of the Florida Medical Association (FMA). The House of Delegates is the policy-setting body of the FMA. For the next three days 300 plus delegate...

22nd July 2013
In my blog last week "Different Paths, Inspiring", I pointed out the reality that not infrequently people take different approaches, travel different paths, to solving problems. I indicated that what is important in the end, is getting to the same goal.  T...

19th July 2013
Recently I was at a meeting in Bangkok talking with a fellow physician about the variety of religions in the world – their differences – their similarities. He comes from a Buddhist and I from a Christian tradition. We were trying to reconcile the differen...

12th July 2013
The Turkish Medical Association (TMA) has drawn our attention to hundreds of cases of injury and detention following police confrontations with protestors that began in response to demonstrations in Gezi Park Istanbul May 27. The majority of those injuries...

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