Images of religious buildings being used to treat the sick shouldn’t come as surprise. The practice has a long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages.
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Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
AI can supplement the efforts of available medical personnel - and help keep them safe.
Despite its proximity to China and South Korea, North Korea says it has no cases of COVID-19.
Bernie Sanders is the antithesis of a political showman who says one thing today, another tomorrow. Perhaps, in the end, that was his undoing.
A group of population experts have called on governments in Latin American and the Caribbean to urgently ramp up testing for COVID-19 before it’s too late.
Trying to maximise lives saved will inevitably be contentious and imperfect.
Cuba stresses its programme to send doctors abroad is based in solidarity. But there are diplomatic and economic reasons too.
A sector-by-sector look at who is benefiting, who is in trouble and who could go either way.
It’s not the price of health care that should concern us. It’s the cost. There’s a distinction, and it matters. Here’s why.
A sense of wellbeing can have an important affect on parents’ decisions when it comes to health care.
The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.
Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
More inmates are growing old and dying in prison, and the system is not designed to cope.
Researchers are looking for ways to determine who’s most at risk for dementia and also ways to detect it early. A scientist who has studied low blood pressure makes a case for a link between the two.
Are more technologically advanced prosthetics and orthotics actually better for improving health? Or do we just think they are better? And most importantly, how do we figure it out?
It’s all very well having rights. But what do these rights really mean when you’re with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?
Automated decision making has been around in healthcare since the 1970s, and now radiology is the new frontline where AI is being deployed.
People are increasingly considering themselves experts on drugs.
Yes, 86% of GP visits were bulk-billed in 2017-18, up from 82% when Labor was in power. But they also rose under Labor, while the percentage for “patients” seems to be lower than the percentage for “visits”.
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Senior Lecturer: Interprofessional Education Unit, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in Health Care Law and Ethics, Barrister, Solicitor, Swansea University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg Sweden, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Health Policy, University of York
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Research scientist of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Head of Research, PUSKAPA
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Research Fellow in Ageing, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Professor of Healthcare Law & Feminist Ethics, University of Sussex
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Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
