World Medical Association calls for a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza
The World Medical Association has called for a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution was initiated by the British Medical Association. Dr Lujain AlQodmani, the...
Will poor American neighbourhoods be better served if doctors can attend tuition-free medical schools?
In February Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, in New York City, received a US$1 billion donation --the largest gift ever made to...
What does the world’s ‘low-fertility’ future look like?
Decades of fretting about over-population and encouraging contraception and abortion have succeeded. But the dream of zero population growth has become a nightmare, a new study...
The Gambia on track to reverse ban on female genital mutilation
In the United States, Australia, and Europe there can be no cause more popular, more humane, and more progressive than the abolition of female genital...
How much should you know about the American president’s health?
President Joe Biden is 81 years old. The presumptive Republican nominee in November, former President Donald Trump, is 77 years old. Biden has been mercilessly...
Is there a human right to sexual pleasure? If so, should the government subsidize it?
In recent years, some bioethicists have tackled the thorny topic of a right to sexual pleasure. People with disabilities often cannot experience this. Is this...
China’s population continues to decline
China’s population has declined for the second year in a row, despite desperate government incentives to women to have children. In 2023, the number of...
Do we have a right not to die a lonely death?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people died alone, without the comfort of having their loved ones at their bedside. Policies varied from institution to institution...
Two opposing conferences on population this weekend: one proudly pro-natalist, one dismally pro-extinction
Declining rates of fertility around the globe are slowly creeping into headlines and the conference circuit. This weekend, there will be two duelling conferences, one...
Sudan: indifference kills
The eyes of the world are on Gaza, where some 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in the in Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attack...
How should doctors approach the war in Gaza?
“Do leaders in health care have any responsibilities to speak out, as health professionals, about the Israel-Hamas war?” asks an op-ed in JAMA. Yes, says...
Eleanor Rigbys are everywhere, says WHO
The World Health Organization has added loneliness to its long list of priority health areas. “High rates of social isolation and loneliness around the world...