Archive: 08/07/2016
Database launched outlining payments to healthcare professionals
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) today published, for the first time, details of transfers of value – payments or benefits in kind – made to individual doctors, nurses and pharmacists, as ...
Jul 8, 2016
Covert inflammation may trigger many forms of cancer
A previously unidentifiable type of low-grade inflammation may explain why common anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin have shown promise against some types of cancer – even when patients don't display typical signs ...
Jul 8, 2016
New book explores moral jeopardy of addictive industry influences
'Moral Jeopardy', a new book by Professor Peter Adams, examines the risks of accepting profits linked to tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries.
Jul 8, 2016
Journalists find holes in program designed to respond to infectious disease outbreaks
Even as a perfect storm of conditions created the potential for a catastrophic global pandemic over the past decade, the U.S. government allowed gaping holes in an early-warning system designed to respond to infectious disease ...
Jul 8, 2016
Public health research reduced smoking deaths—it could do the same for gun violence
After the most recent mass shooting in the U.S. at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said:
Jul 8, 2016