Is health a human right? This question has been a point of global contention, and in particular has driven the highly partisan ideological views on health reform in the United […]
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William Cayley: It’s time for evidence based solutions rather than political healthcare agendas
America needs to set aside ideologically driven approaches to healthcare, argues William Cayley […]
David Kerr: Health professionals’ selective mutism about research discrimination
President Donald Trump touched a raw nerve with the executive order to ban, temporarily, visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Amid the wide global outcry, there were also calls from international clinicians […]
How to repeal Obamacare: A wicked problem
One of the first executive orders that Donald Trump signed after his inauguration as president of the United States was to impede the financing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) […]
Nick Hopkinson: Why an academic boycott of Trump’s America is misguided
How should a European clinical academic react to the fact that the US election appears to have sent a racist, misogynist, climate change denier to the White House? One response, […]
Danielle Solomon: The global gag rule is only one of many barriers to contraceptive access
The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency was bookended by two definitive and controversial actions. The first, on 23 January, was the reinstatement and expansion of the “Mexico City policy”—a […]
Chris Simms: Trump and the role of data driven resistance in global health
“Resistance” is an evocative term common to the natural and social sciences where it denotes the act of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. In the so called hard sciences it is […]
Vageesh Jain: The uncertain future of American healthcare
Donald Trump has only been in office for a few weeks and already the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been taken. This pre-emptive strike; a demonstration […]
David Sanders: Academics boycott US conferences in light of travel ban
What is the medical world to do since president Donald Trump’s executive order, issued on 27 January 2017, banning citizens of seven Muslim majority countries from entering the US for […]
Ashish Jha: Where next for Obamacare?
Since its inception, nearly every member of the Republican Party has run vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Ashish Jha looks at what might happen next. […]