Taiwan's efforts to reform its financially struggling national health insurance (NHI) scheme go back at least four years, but political debate over what form the "second generation" of the programme should take is now coming to a long-delayed head. ...
The arrival of NDM-1, a new "superbug" that is resistant to most antibiotics, is the latest in a succession of health scares, many of which proved to be far less serious than expected. Is this new threat any different, or are we in danger of ...
Transparency is everything – or so it would appear. Barely a week goes by without new proposals to put more information into the public domain, set new conditions for experts sitting on advisory committees, or limit companies' freedom to hand out ...
Just as WHO delegates were sitting down to a press conference in Hong Kong this week to announce that the world was finally reverting to seasonal influenza characteristics and patterns of transmission, another global infection scare was hitting the ...
