Health Care Report - This site, in data graphic form, shows U.S. live expectancy trends and health care spending compared to other nations, raising challenging questions today and looking forward.
Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Debate Over Resources - International human-rights standards can help point a useful direction while we prepare ourseleves to face a new public-health challenge that has come to the fore in the fight against AIDS.
Not Another Generation Exposed To Asbestos - An examination of asbestos, its effects on the human body, the state of mesothelioma treatments, and pending legislation on asbestos issues.
Public Health and Personal Freedom - Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol.
Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist." (December 17, 1998)
