History has witnessed numerous drug patent wars, but in April 2013, the Indian Supreme Court did something which captured the attention of the international media. It denied a patent to […]
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Soumyadeep Bhaumik’s review of Indian medical papers—18 June 2013
One of the most enthralling articles that caught my attention last month was one entitled “Knowledge and practice of clinical ethics among healthcare providers in a government hospital, Chennai” published […]
Fran Baum: How can governments globally get “Big Food” to change its addiction to sugar and fat?
Fran Baum is blogging from the 8th World Health Organization Global Health meeting. Read her other blogs here. It was good to hear Pekka Puska present Finland’s health promotion success […]
Anita Jain on the Bangladesh factory collapse and corporate responsibility for worker safety
“A mother of two, her left arm amputated, she refuses to ever go near a sewing machine again.” In April this year, the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh collapsed killing […]
Fran Baum on economics and health at the WHO global health meeting
Fran Baum is blogging from the 8th World Health Organization Global Health meeting. Read her other blogs here. The day started with Cecilia Vaca Jones, the Minister of Social Development in […]
Jane Parry: Why real name HIV testing won’t fly in China
Two interesting documents that came across my desk this week got me thinking about how different HIV-related human rights look depending on where you’re standing. The first was a press […]
Fran Baum on the globalisation of unhealthy lifestyles
Fran Baum is blogging from the 8th World Health Organization Global Health meeting. Read her other blogs here. Sauli Ninistö, President of Finland, opened the conference stressing that health is […]
Sandra Lako on x-ray machines and emergency rooms in Sierra Leone
Today marks three years of working for Welbodi Partnership and it’s hard to believe that so much time has gone by. The last time I blogged, I wrote about getting […]
Fran Baum: From Ottawa to Helsinki—the 8th global conference on health promotion
In 1986 the World Health Organisation held the first global conference on health promotion at which the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was drafted and adopted. It has become the […]
Richard Smith: How often do men think about sex?
Everybody knows that men think about sex every seven seconds. What people haven’t perhaps considered is that means more than 8000 times a day or 56 000 times a week. […]