Public health legislation should be changed

[Should the resuscitation guidelines be changed?].

The Public Health Responsibility Deal: how should such a complex public health policy be evaluated?

BACKGROUND The Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD) in England was launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership which aims to 'tap into the potential for businesses and other influential organisations to make a significant contribution to improving public health by helping us to create this environment'. It has come under criticism from public health advocates and others, who have suggest...

How should public health policy be developed? A case study in European public health.

BACKGROUND Article 129 of the Treaty of Rome (as amended at Maastricht) gave new powers to the European Union (EU) institutions to develop and implement public health programmes at EU level. The authors were invited by the cabinet of Commissioner Flynn to assist the Commission by developing new policy proposals in certain specific areas. METHODS The approach was agreed with officials of the P...

Ductal carcinoma in situ: should the name be changed?

S peakers at the National Institutes of Health state-of-the-science conference on ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in September set out to assess critical areas in the field and ended up with a range of research recommendations: Improve risk stratification of patients, look closer at biomarkers, and compare the effectiveness of treatment methods. Surprisingly, though, after an unexpected fl urry...

Should the law on assisted dying be changed? Yes.

The case for legalising assisted dying for people with terminal illness is easily stated. Unbearable suffering, prolonged by medical care, and inflicted on a dying patient who wishes to die, is unequivocally a bad thing. It is one of the fundamental principles of medicine that you should be allowed to determine what is in your own best interest when you are of sound mind. Nobody else’s views sh...