Every day hundreds of thousands of doctors and patients around the world discuss the benefits and risks of drugs. You might think therefore that we
Category: Medicine
Scaling up to defeat childhood obesity
Some three million children in Britain are obese, and treating childhood obesity is far from easy. If we are to have any chance of responding
Health research in rural China
The differences between rural and urban China are stark. Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities are filled with new buildings, best illustrated by those built
Can the internet transform public services?
Slowly but surely the internet is transforming industries—finance, travel, music, entertainment—but so far it has had little impact on public services. But can it transform
Rethinking priorities in global health
Last week’s conference to launch Edinburgh University’s Global Health Academy left me thinking that priorities in global health may be very wrong. David Molyneaux from
Promoting health literacy
I’ve just spent five days—yes, five days—talking about health literacy. Before my five day conversation I’d never thought much about health literacy, but now I