Health
It All Depends on How It’s Done
Broader commercialisation doesn’t necessarily mean more harm.
Maree’s Book Review: Killed to Order
Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary, by Jan Jekielek
Trump’s Pick for CDC Director Raises Eyebrows
After a year of turmoil, the priority appears to be getting a nominee through – rather than driving radical reform.
The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine
Progress has been stalled, not because the science is unclear, but because the decision to act has not been taken. In public health, delays do not remain abstract, they accumulate over time, and eventually they are measured in lives.
What Unfolded Before ACIP Was Stopped
An insider account of internal tensions, contested decisions, and the questions that were never resolved.
Netherlands Hits Record of Euthanasia in 2025
The Dutch experience may serve as a warning that the risks of euthanasia represent less of a slippery slope and more of a runaway train.
Where to From Here?
This can be an individual decision, but it can also become the goal of a society needing to change.
HIV Linked to Hospital Practices
For affected families, the consequences are lifelong, with children now facing chronic illness and social stigma from a virus they are believed to have contracted during treatment.
New Study Links Cold to 20 Times as Many Deaths
Nearly every dollar we pour into preventing heat deaths will end up killing more people than it saves. It’s time climate ministries put more accurate costings on any policy aiming to reduce global temperature.
Using Psychedelics in Palliative Care
If drugs that ease physical pain are available there is no reason for drugs that relieve psychological pain not also being available. It is both morally and ethically irresponsible.
Base-Edited Baby a Triumph of Targeted Therapy
How one toddler’s fight sparked a precision medicine revolution.
What Would Robert Louis Stevenson Say?
Don’t tell me that a Hyde-like creature isn’t going to get out eventually. There will be consequences.
Biotech Cannot Be Allowed a Right to Secrecy
They are still refusing to publicly acknowledge the extent of adverse effects. Like the Kentucky lottery winner, many benefited from a pandemic financial windfall, but having started down the GE medicine trail they are unable to change tack even though the risks are now known.
This Should Not Be a Government Service
MAiD is the creation of a health system that cannot or will not provide “basic, standard” service. Covid devastated the medical profession’s reputation. The shreds that remain will not survive MAiD. Nor should they.