Medicine
Fueling waste and corruption: U.S. aid hurts poor more than helps
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has revamped the Bush policy of heath aid to poor countries by widening its scope beyond AIDS to all diseases: it looks like a great idea but it is full of unintended consequences.
UN Disarms Weapon of Malarial Destruction
IPN Opinion article
DDT is much-demonised by superstitious Westerners but it has saved millions of lives all over the world (including the USA and Europe) and continues to save lives in Africa. But not for much longer: the WHO's reluctant acceptance of DDT in 2006 has been reversed in favour of a range of human experiments using poor people as guinea-pigs.
Poverty: The Real Threat to Health
IPN Opinion article
Philip Stevens challenges the conclusions reached by a recent study in The Lancet about climate change and health.
Corruption fuels spread of fake drugs business
IPN Opinion article
A barrage of email spam highlights the dangers from bad drugs as everyone worries about swine flu but the plague of counterfeits is constant threat everywhere and particularly in poor countries. Taxes and corruption make business difficult or impossible for legitimate medicines but open the field to counterfeit dealers who can pay the bribes and make huge profits on their cheap imitations.
This healthcare 'reform' will kill thousands
IPN Opinion article
Before the USA institutes a federal body for 'comparative effectiveness' review of new medical treatments, it should take a look at England's rationing body NICE - which has denied innovative medicines to thousands of patients.
