Be good for goodness’ sake
“Be good for goodness’ sake” is not only the secret of piling up presents from Santa Claus under the Christmas tree, but the secret of...
Monkeypox is now a national health emergency in US
The Biden Administration has declared the monkeypox epidemic a national health emergency, following New York and the United Nations. There have been nearly 7,000 cases...
The opioid crisis isn’t just the Sacklers’ fault – and making Purdue Pharma pay isn’t enough on its own to fix the pharmaceutical industry’s deeper problems
You may have heard of the Sackler family and the role that they and their privately held company, Purdue Pharma, played in the opioid crisis....
The UK’s only gender clinic will close its doors
Halfway through her investigation into transgender medicine for children in the UK, Dr Hilary Cass has shut down the only gender clinic in the country,...
Monkeypox is now a global health emergency
Fears of a monkeypox epidemic are spreading in the United States. The governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, has declared it a statewide disaster...
The stigma of monkeypox
The World Health Organization has refused to panic over the rapid and unprecedented spread of monkeypox across the globe. In its latest (June 17) advisory,...
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...