The standard of palliative care in the UK is exemplary. We are able to provide expert, compassionate care to a great many terminally ill people and we rightly hold our […]
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Katherine Sleeman and Iain Chalmers: Assisted dying—restricting access to people with fewer than six months to live is discriminatory
The Australian state of Victoria has become the latest jurisdiction to legalise assisted dying, joining Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Canada and US states including Oregon, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey […]
Marialena Trivella: The Albus Dumbledore of the medical research world—what would Doug Altman think?
A year on from his death, Marialena Trivella remembers Doug Altman and his lasting legacy on medical research, his colleagues, and friends […]
Yasushi Katsuma and Maaya Sugai: How to achieve effective universal health coverage
The first ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on universal health coverage is an opportunity to consolidate unaddressed issues from G20 Osaka Summit in 2019, say Yasushi Katsuma and Maaya Sugai […]
Zulfiqar Bhutta: Delivering humane universal health coverage in humanitarian settings
Aspirational goals and targets often guide global health and development initiatives. The millennium development goals (MDGs), signed off by 189 countries in September 2000, aimed to reduce maternal and child […]
Satchit Balsari: Will AI help universalize health care?
The successful integration of AI into healthcare services must take different focuses depending on local contexts, says Satchit Balsari […]
Maria Neira: The real cost of carbon is felt in our lungs
A fossil fuel based society is harming us where it hurts the most—our health, says Maria Neira […]
Poonam Khetrapal Singh: The health sector must stand tall in the fight against climate change
Across the WHO South-East Asia Region, the health sector is stepping up its fight to reduce the health impacts of climate change […]
John Britton: Electronic cigarettes and the precautionary principle
Smoking kills. That such a damaging and irrational behaviour persists in many countries where the health risks of smoking are well understood and most smokers want to quit, is testimony […]
Stephen Black: To benefit the NHS, AI must be guided by intelligence, not hype
The NHS won’t get much for spending £250m on AI if we don’t apply some judgment about where to apply it, says Stephen Black […]