Archive: 2025

Week ending 3 May 2025 Authoritarians and corporate greed create a global crisis Amnesty International’s annual report The State of the World’s Human Rights claims the Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful…

EDITORIAL Vol 27/1, 2025, pp. 1-11  PDF Joseph J. Amon Introduction The right to health is not usually realized through the benevolence of governments as much as the demands of populations. A critical part of those demands is manifest…

Briony Harden, Yinuo Mao, Justin Weiss, Selina Hsuan, Orii McDermott, Michelle Funk, Natalie Drew, Katrin Seeher, Tarun Dua, and Martin Orrell AbstractThe World Health Organization has set a target for 75% of member states to have national dementia…

Week ending 26 April 2025 Harvard sues Trump administration Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on the grounds the freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and unlawful. It calls on the court to restore…

Week ending 18 April 2025 Health services disrupted globally The World Health Organization is warning health service disruptions are occurring in 70% of its surveyed countries as a result of the sudden suspension or reduction in foreign aid. It…

21 April 2025 Isabella Long Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) aided in 2% (74,926) of births in the United States in 2018, but in Puerto Rico (a territory of the United States) it assisted in only 0.4% (84) of births. At the same time,…