Health law worries hospitals

Stoking Ground Zero health worries

Following the attack of September 11th, public opinion polls showed a remarkable leap in Americans’ trust of their government. Some in New York City seem to be carving out an exception to that trust when it comes to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Fanned by some alarming news reports, there are doubts about whether the EPA has been telling the truth about the New York City air. In the w...

Evaluating health inequalities: residual worries.

Adina Preda and Kristin Voigt should be commended for bridging the gap between moral philosophy and health policy. While I am convinced by much of their analysis of what they call the Health Equity as Social Change (HESC) model, I am not certain they are correct to claim that " in the HESC model, 'avoidability' appears as both a necessary and sufficient condition for health inequity " (Preda an...

Uganda's anti-gay law worries doctors and researchers.

Abiding worries over federal health research.

T he Peer Review Working Group convened by the Canadian Insti tutes of Health Research (CIHR) recommends the agency partially reverse course on its heavily criticized virtualization technologies. But three chairs of the CIHR’s College of Reviewers — the 17 researchers who manage peer review — are concerned the working group’s recommendations won’t restore the integrity of Canadian health resear...

Voluntary Hospitals and Poor Law Infirmaries

the Guild of Pharmacists on " The Future of the Voluntary and Municipal Hospitals." Considerations of space admit only of our giving such passages as bear immediately upon the important question of the relief of hospital pressure by utilising vacant beds in the Poor-Law Infirmaries. Mr. Morris began by pointing out that, although the Waiting List at the London now stands at 865, at the Whitecha...