The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) condemns the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) for its refusal to allow the administration and usage of the...Harm Reduction
More stringent tobacco control policies in Europe could result in 1.65 million fewer lung cancer cases over 20 years, according to an international population-based...
December 16th, 2020Despite the COVID-19 global mantra of ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’, the world's wealthy nations have not only hogged vaccine supplies coming on-stream...
December 2nd, 2020The denial evidenced by a mass failure to adhere to medical advice on COVID-19 is unique in modern history, notes an item in The Lancet. The time is ripe for...
In the United Kingdom, lockdown was a risk factor for increasing alcohol consumption in people with alcohol use disorders and relapse for those who had been abstinent,...
June 17th, 2020Richard Horton, editor of the internationally respected journal The Lancet, does not hold back in his criticism of the United Kingdom’s response to the pandemic and...
November 24th, 2019
A new international approaches to drug use is needed, according to a landmark series of papers led by researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre...
Seven out of 10 deaths worldwide were caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in 2016, particularly cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and...
September 5th, 2018‘No safe level of alcohol’ screamed headlines last week. They were inspired by the publication of a massive study, part of the ‘Global Burden of Disease’ series...
When the #MeToo movement tore the veil of silence drawn around victims of sexual harassment last year‚ the world sat up and took notice. The Times reports that at...
