Global Tobacco Problem Getting Worse, Not Better

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

Health trends in the elderly population: getting better and getting worse.

Health trends in the fastest growing sector of the population, the oldest old, have received much attention during the past decade because of the rising costs of medical and long-term care. Many studies have suggested a compression of morbidity in this sector, implying that the future care needs of elderly people will not follow the demographic prognoses. Most of these studies have used health ...

Is the Patient Getting Worse?

Glaucoma care today is often simplified into all or nothing terms with the assumption that if the patient's intraocular pressure (IOP) is above a certain level, glaucomatous disease will progress and when the IOP is lowered to below a threshold, no further progression will occur. This dogma is largely the result of limitations in the resolution of tools currently available to judge progression....

Health 'care' interventions: making health inequalities worse, not better?

AIM The aim of this paper is to present a model, the 'Effect of the Professional Ego', which provides a psychodynamically informed analytical framework for examining professional practice in arenas where issues of inequalities need to be addressed. BACKGROUND There is a great deal of literature on the psychosocial aspects of inequalities in health care provision. However, the impact of intrap...

Social egg freezing: for better, not for worse.

The possibility for healthy women to cryopreserve their oocytes in order to counter future infertility has gained momentum in recent years. However, women tend to cryopreserve oocytes at an age that is suboptimal from a clinical point of view--in their late thirties--when both oocyte quantity and quality have already considerably diminished and success rates for eventually establishing a pregna...