JAMA appoints new editor for new times
Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lost both its deputy editor and its editor. To rephrase Oscar Wilde’s quip: to lose...
Scathing report on English hospital’s maternity care
A damning report on a regional UK hospital system has found that around 131 stillbirths, 70 neonatal deaths and nine maternal deaths might have been...
Longevity does not always work in your favour in the UK
“Dying patients living longer than expected lose NHS funds” was the BBC headline. The NHS is the UK’s government health service, which is publicly funded...
Russian doctors plead for end to war
Thousands of Russian doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin urging him to put an end to...
The health consequences of war in Ukraine will be catastrophic
Shakespeare speaks of the thrill of war in Othello: ‘" the neighing steed and the shrill trumpThe spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,The royal banner, and...
China quietly cuts back on vasectomies to stop falling birth rates
February 9, 2017 was not one of Hu’s better days. Unbeknownst to him, family planning authorities in his home county in Yunnan, a province in...
Canadians back harsh penalties for unvaxxed
“Canada is to niceness as Saudi Arabia is to oil,” according to the BBC. “It’s awash in the stuff.” (Yes, a BBC journalist really wrote...
How should funds be allocated for rare diseases?
Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya are a power couple in Chicago. They met during Obama’s campaign for President and both worked in the White House...
Lancet study forecasts people living with dementia will triple by 2050
The number of adults (aged 40 years and older) living with dementia worldwide is expected to nearly triple, from an estimated 57 million in 2019...
Vaccine mandates 1: Biden’s strategy quashed by Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has struck down President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate requiring workers at larger businesses get vaccinated or have a weekly test. It...
Vaccine mandates 2: policies around the world
100% vaccination rates are not even theoretically achievable. But that seems to be the goal of many governments. Here are a few of the tougher...
Vaccine mandates 3: are those deplorable anti-vaxxers ‘irresponsible idiots’?
If there are any words which Hillary Clinton could take back if she could live her life over again, it is this sentence from 2016:...