Fluoridation in Britain today.

HMOs : America Today , Britain Tomorrow ?

a non-profit organisation started by the medical school of Harvard University and its brochure says that it is "New England's most experienced HMO," which since 1969 has been "serving the residents of Eastern Massachusetts with high quality health care that's convenient and affordable." Until 1980 the Harvard plan was Boston's only HMO but now it is in fierce competition with 10 others. The pla...

Coalworkers' pneumoconiosis in Britain today and tomorrow.

Residential care of the elderly in Britain today.

The British Department of Health and Social Security is committed to the publication during 1979 of the first ever White Paper dealing with 'general strategy towards elderly people' (DHSS, 1978). This comprehensive approach represents a radical departure from existing practice in planning services for this age group. The discussion document (DHSS, 1978), published as a preliminary to this White...

Fluoridation.

This story has a beginning, it has a middle but it has no ending. The 'ending' will undoubtedly be written in countless hospital records, on tiny gravestones, in the bones of the crippled and on the hearts of the bereaved. Even so, the true cause of the 'ending' will never be advertised. One record that slipped past the establishment net is duplicated herein but, believe it or not, the existenc...

Water fluoridation.

AIM This was to present a summary of the evidence from systematic reviews of the effectiveness and safety of water fluoridation. METHODS A search for relevant systematic reviews was conducted using the terms Fluoridation [Mesh] OR "water fluoridation" OR fluoridation OR (water AND fluoride) and was run from 01/01/2000 to 17/10/2008 in Pubmed, Embase, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Review...