vices to health services with patients falling through the gap which has been created.'4 A recent House of Commons committee report highlighted the potential conflict explicit in the reforms between the downward pressure on the budget of social care (previously there was an open-ended commitment to those claiming income support) and the increasing demand on services resulting from detailed asse...

Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Union (EU), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and other organizations summarized existing and planned collaborations on emerging infectious diseases. The session was chaired by David Heymann, WHO, and James LeDuc, CDC. One speaker, V. Ramalingaswami, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India, summarized lessons learned from...

The Ebola virus epidemic has led to a “seismic political shift” in international attitudes to global health security, says Brian McCloskey, adviser to the United Nations’ special envoy on Ebola. McCloskey, who is on secondment from his job as director of global health at Public Health England, told a debate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that Ebola had “galvanised politic...

The field of Classics is an inherently interdisciplinary one, combining within itself the disciplines of linguistics, history, literature, archaeology, and philosophy. In addition, Classics provision in the UK secondary school system is extremely uneven; while some students will have had eight or more years of instruction in the field prior to attending university, others might have none at all...

The National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdomwas created by anAct of 1946, based on the recommendations of Sir William Beveridge’s report (1). Seldomhas any report to a government been so influential. The NHS is the pioneer of universal, publicly financed health insurance, and could probably be credited with much of the improvement in the health of the British population since its cre...

Surgeon-Captain David Bruce (1855-1931) (ANONYMOUS, 1931a, 1931b, 1932; HAMERTON, 1932; J. R. B., 1932) was posted to Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, for military field service in 1894. At the time, cattle (and also horses) were dying in hundreds from a disease the origin(s) of which was obscure; the Zulus gave it the name nagana (MACARTHUR, 1955). As a result, the country was faced with...

He rā ki tua. Better times are coming. Racism is deeply embedded in institutions and systems of freshwater governance management Aotearoa. Despite Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840), the denial marginalisation Māori rights interests by Crown persists. As conveyed constitutional reform advocates, colonisation today more subtle intangible, such as concepts law policy. These newer forms “born a cultural ...