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Julian Sheather: Should we pay drug addicts to be sterilised?
Barbara Harris is a concerned American. After adopting four children from a crack-addicted mother, she tried to change the law in California. She wanted to make it mandatory for every […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Paddy the cricketer
Rain stopped another Ireland giant killing exploit at cricket’s ICC World Twenty20 yesterday. Having beaten Bangladesh and Pakistan in 2007, victory over England would have been the ultimate achievement. But, […]
Kiran James Jobanputra: Escape
It is sad, it never ceases to be sad, working in hospitals. Working with the mothers, their fatigued, careworn faces, the infrequent tears, the resigned, long-suffering poise, concealing hearts that […]
Muza Gondwe: No more days left in the world calendar
“Counting Malaria Out” is not the most inspiring of themes for the third World Malaria Day that took place on the 25th of April. It is another day to add […]
Richard Smith: Five examples of scaling up
Developing interventions that work to, say, reduce malaria, combat obesity, or prevent cardiovascular disease is hard, but scaling them up to benefit whole populations is harder. Yet the interventions must […]
Joe Collier: Denying people assistance in dying is simply cruel
Whatever else, arguments for and against assisted dying must include the notion of cruelty. In my view there can be little more cruel than to decline the request for help […]
David Pencheon: I spy the future now- IT, integration, innovation, and incentives
Just before each general election, I am always intrigued to see how the Economist will cast their vote. Although I don’t always agree with their decisions on this or any […]
David Pencheon: When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race
When I see and hear young people not only speaking, but taking action on the big issues of our time I have hope for the future. When I see doctors […]
Richard Smith on Matlab, Bangladesh
The cholera hospital in Matlab, Bangladesh, has patients in the corridors and every nook and cranny, but as we walk through the mood is calm. Most beds have two people, […]