Michael Cook
Editor
BioEdge
Editor
BioEdge
Hi there,
If there is a theme for the stories in this week's newsletter, it is that poverty is bad for your health. After the Greek economy tanked, as Xavier Symons reports below, the standard of health care has become dismal. It's one more reason to fear a global economic meltdown.
But it also leads to some confused thinking. British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that obese people who are collecting a sickness benefit may be kicked off the welfare rolls if they do not follow their doctor's treatment regime (see below). This tough medicine sounds sensible if you believe that obesity can be solved just by pushing yourself away from the table.
However, lots of research has shown that obesity is a complex problem. Poverty is one of its causes, or one of the factors associated with it. Will making people poorer make them slimmer? Is Mr Cameron's plan a daring new health policy, or is it just grandstanding? What do you think?
Cheers,
by Michael Cook | Feb 14, 2015
If you are a fat, unemployed Brit, a long Lent lies before you.
by Michael Cook | Feb 15, 2015
A Valentine's Day story from the British press.
by Xavier Symons | Feb 14, 2015
A Dutch euthanasia clinic cautioned by authorities has experienced a massive leap in patients requesting euthanasia.
by Xavier Symons | Feb 14, 2015
More than politics is at stake in negotiations over a ceasefire between Ukraine and separatist rebels - healthcare in the affected regions is in a…
by Xavier Symons | Feb 14, 2015
As the Greek health system buckles under economic pressure, patients are taking desperate measures to ensure basic care.
by Xavier Symons | Feb 14, 2015
Human rights groups have expressed grave concern about the employment of young children on tobacco farms around the US.
by Michael Cook | Feb 13, 2015
Independent investigators commissioned by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel have concluded last year's war in Gaza involved "several serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian…
by Michael Cook | Feb 13, 2015
"Suicide" evokes nooses, bridges, bullets and 20-storey buildings, a depressing panorama for assisted-suicide activists. How about "dignicide"?
by Michael Cook | Feb 13, 2015
Some American bioethicists immediately took to the media to promote the technique.
by Michael Cook | Feb 13, 2015
It's shaping up as a major issue among doctors in Canada after last week's Supreme Court ruling which legalised it.BioEdge Suite 12A, Level 2 | 5 George St | North Strathfield NSW 2137 | Australia Phone: +61 2 8005 8605 Mobile: 0422-691-615 Email: michael@bioedge.org |
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