Health Care Report - http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/healthcare.htm
This site, in data graphic form, shows U.S. live expectancy trends and health care spending compared to other nations, raising challenging questions today and looking forward. |
Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Debate Over Resources - http://hrw.org/english/docs/2000/07/11/global2195.htm
International human-rights standards can help point a useful direction while we prepare ourseleves to face a new public-health challenge that has come to the fore in the fight against AIDS. |
Infostat, Cargo-Cult Science and the Policy Sausage-machine - http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/cargocult.html
Paper on the managerial takeover of clinical practice, and how the process of medical science is distorted by politics and dubious trendy theories. |
Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/339/25/1851/
From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist." |
Medical Malpractice lawsuits - http://www.njlaws.com/medical_malpractice.htm
Legal Information on medical malpractice lawsuits. |
Not Another Generation Exposed To Asbestos - http://www.angelfire.com/al4/ban_asbestos/Not_Another_Generation_Exposed_To_Asbestos.html
An examination of asbestos, its effects on the human body, the state of mesothelioma treatments, and pending legislation on asbestos issues. |
Public Health and Personal Freedom - http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/healthfreed.html
Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol. |