My five-year-old niece has nailed it. While there are reams of news stories, pages of medical advice, hundreds of learned online...

Recent news that two new drugs to treat the Ebola virus developed by the biopharmaceutical industry have achieved a 90% cure rate is...

Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 2 August 2019. The article can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/history-repeat...

A few days spent at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) 2019 conference in Cologne this week gave a sense of how the...

For the first time ever in human history there are now five generations working together in the same workplace. While some...

The 2019 World Health Assembly in Geneva, the 72nd such meeting, as always covered many important health issues from around the world. A...

“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the...

Article published in Pharma Boardroom on how a new approach to the WHO’s Essential Medicines List is needed to ensure both the patients...

This week the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced the new 10-year plan for the National Health Service, with the claim that it...

As if to remind us how intertwined politics, economics and health care are in 2019, the year begins with the second-worst Ebola outbreak...

" Africa's progress, if it is noticed at all, is seen as an improbable stroke of good fortune, a temporary break from its impoverished...

Sometimes in discussions of global health we get lost in the numbers. It's something I am often guilty of myself. Individual stories of...

“Premature death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) continues to be one of the major development challenges in the 21st century” - ...

When the first of the new hepatitis C medicines, the direct acting antivirals (DAAs), entered the market about five years ago they became...

“Society becomes more wholesome, more serene, and spiritually healthier, if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their...

What price to put on a medicine is one of the big issues in global health right now. While there are times when the debate around drug...

The story of the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is a classic example of why a commercially...

As delegates gathered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva this week for the 71st World Health Assembly I became increasingly convinced...

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. - ...

In a recent poll Britons were asked what historical event in British history makes them feel proud. Believe it or not, the creation of...