What should be done about hepatitis-B-infected health-care workers?

What is osteopenia, and what should be done about it?

Public health in times of war and famine: what can be done? What should be done?

What should be done about postnatal depression in Hong Kong?

Postnatal depression is one of the most common forms of psychiatric morbidity of child-bearing and causes a host of adverse psychosocial complications to the mother, the children, and the family. Recent studies have shown that 12% of local women have postnatal depression and most of them receive no meaningful medical attention. The validation of a local version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depres...

What should be done about smoking in movies?

In 1997 Ron Davis, Tobacco Control’s inaugural editor, and I wrote an editorial titled Smoking in movies: is it a problem? Since then, a growing body of research has examined the relation between viewing of movies containing depictions of smoking and subsequent smoking among youth. Reviewing this evidence, a 2008 National Cancer Institute monograph concluded ‘‘The depiction of cigarette smoking...

What you should know about hepatitis B.

The first of a new class of pharmaceutical therapies for hepatitis C with cure rates in clinical trials of over 90% were released into the Canadian marketplace in late 2014, but treatment has come with a high price tag for both private and public payers [1]. In this article we examine the prevalence of hepatitis C, the cost of new treatment options and the implications of coverage under public ...