Most people living in cities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries can reach primary care clinics within 30 minutes – yet average quality of care remains poor with clinicians failing to make correct diagnoses or implement appropriate treatments, new studies reveal.

A new study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls for urgent action to limit plastic waste in these essential diagnostic tools.

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh propose limiting how much plastic is used in test kits to curb unnecessary plastic waste. 

Innovative statistical method helps determine ideal threshold times in restricted mean survival time analyses

n a new opinion piece, two experts who worked in the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division argue that a few huge health care conglomerate platforms have many of the same concerning traits as big tech platforms. In suggesting that policymakers and stakeholders look beyond the individual services provided by each platform, they recommend that antitrust attention and action may be needed.

One widespread theory is that people would donate more in the face of higher wealth taxes. But by looking at data from Norway, Marius Ring, assistant professor of finance at Texas McCombs, finds the opposite to be true. When faced with a 1% increase in the wealth tax rate, people cut their donation amounts to charities by 26%; they were also 27% less likely to give at all.