Jeremy Hunt was promoted from Culture Secretary to Health Secretary in Cameron’s recent reshuffle, but where does he stand on the privatisation of the NHS?
What should doctors do if deeply religious parents want to keep a child alive at any cost, even if the child is suffering and has no chance of survival? In a controversial article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, two paediatricians and the chaplain of Great Ormond Street in London call for changes in the law.
Drug company GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay a $3 billion fine, the largest health care fraud fine in the history of the United States – the latest in a string of drug company penalties for improper promotion of drugs for “off-label,” or unapproved, uses.
Homeopaths in the UK are about to find out what it’s like to be properly regulated….and they don’t like it.