The start of a journey In January 2016, shortly after 194 countries signed on to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and an ambitious, universal, and transformational vision for global development, […]
Month: July 2017
Junaid Nabi: Voting rights are a public health issue
Last week the Republican party’s attempt to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) collapsed before promptly being revived again. The new bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), had previously received […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—24 July 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Chris Simms: Brexit and the vengeance of unintended consequences
Decades before the advent of complexity science, H L Mencken wrote that “For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple, and wrong.” These solutions typically complicate […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Interconnectedness
As I discussed last week, the physicist Alan Sokal has pointed out that “ . . . well tested theories in the mature sciences are supported in general by a […]
George Gillett: The case of Charlie Gard should make us question our attitudes to parental autonomy
We should learn from the success of the Mental Capacity Act, and consider introducing capacity-based assessments for parental autonomy […]
Kathleen Ruff: Climate change—UN fails to address industry influence
Climate change is widely recognized as the most urgent issue facing planet Earth. The scientific community is clear: we must take strong action to stop practices that are causing global […]
Ilona Kickbusch: Health diplomacy at the G20—success or failure?
Global health advocates need to look critically at themselves, get out of their health bubble, and start to mobilize for global health […]
Jeave Reserva at al: Soft tissue fillers in aesthetic medicine
Soft-tissue fillers have become a cornerstone of modern nonsurgical aesthetic medicine, but they have come on a long way since the use of paraffin as a filler in nineteenth century […]
Richard Smith: How to advise a friend frightened by a medical headline?
A friend is frightened by reading the headline “Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours, warn scientists” in the Daily Telegraph. A close friend of hers has had […]