It used to be that, to get hold of the morning-after pill, you had to get a prescription from your GP or go to a Family Planning Clinic or A&E (that genuinely was the advice; A&E must have...
It is World Immunisation Week and, despite this almost magically effective form of medicine being widely available, especially in the West, and frequently affordable or free, we find ourselves in a...
Money talks, dogs bark, goes a Hungarian saying, and nowhere is this more true than in the health business. Yes, indeed, business. Because in Hungary, despite a national health insurance program...
Imagine for a moment that you live in a country with too many people and too little infrastructure. A large city might have better medical care, but you don't live in a large city. You don't even...
Dr Jane Barton is a retired GP who, according to the results of a recent inquiry, signed off prescriptions for opioid medications that led to the deaths of up to 650 people at Gosport War Memorial...
I am a firm believer in the power of technology to do good for the world. In the earlier days of the web, when you could go on The Hunger Site and click a button to feed somebody who was hungry, I...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Louise Hung's exploration of AAPIs on television, and how the Simpsons and Roseanne controversies...
Picture the scene: you’re at a hospital because you have an unwanted pregnancy and are seeking out a termination. You have seen all the appropriate professionals and had all the relevant tests. You...
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don't miss Natalia Antonova's hard-hitting Trumplympics coverage! And subscribe to the Global Comment podcast on...