Former UK drugs tsar Mike Trace spoke out last week about what he perceives to be a territorial dispute between two Whitehall departments over the most appropriate treatment for heroin-addicted […]
Month: December 2009
Richard Smith: Trying to redefine health
Last week about 30 of us spent 36 hours in The Hague discussing whether we could produce a new definition of health—and eventually deciding that we couldn’t. But we had […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Immunisation in Bangladesh: who takes priority?
The team and I have a new project. We are embarking on a multi-country study that is looking at the Impact of Measles Eradication Activities on Immunization Services and Health […]
Olivia Roberts on the migration merry go round debate
Last week the British Medical Association (BMA) published an updated statement on the international migration of health workers. In the BMA’s view individuals have the right to migrate for personal […]
Louise Kenny’s drawer of misunderstanding
A few years ago I lived in a flat with a dear friend Hannah, who like me is a collector of junk and disastrous at keeping things such like wires, […]
David Pencheon: Not waving but talking
You may be aware that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), BMJ Editor-in-Chief Fiona Godlee, and the Campaign for Greener Healthcare hosted a meeting of health professionals at the RCN […]
Richard Smith on scaling up to defeat childhood obesity
Some three million children in Britain are obese, and treating childhood obesity is far from easy. To have any chance of responding adequately to the epidemic of obesity we need […]
Emily Spry as a do-gooding know it all in Sierra Leone
I feel as if I have been in some kind of altered state since I arrived in Freetown ten weeks ago. After an extended high, where I was bursting with […]
Tony Waterston on a health movement at the Wave
At the weekend we attended the most profound and moving event for health progress that we can remember. This took place at the Royal College of Nursing – founded in […]
Nathan Ford: Losing momentum in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Six years ago the UK government made an important reversal in its policy towards HIV/AIDS treatment. Whereas previously the UK approach was to fund the building of general health care […]