The European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a

The Royal College of Midwives has taken a pot at the use of flawed evidence used to discourage women from giving birth at home.
 

A brief period in which British family doctors were offered a financial inducement to treat diabetic patients more intensively could be coming to an end.
 

How many deaths occurred in England and Wales last week? We don’t know the answer, and that’s understandable.

The leaked reports about the war in Afghanistan that have emerged this week show that NATO forces have killed more civilians than previously acknowledged.

Earlier this month, lots of media attention was paid to a new analysis concluding that giving birth at home tripled the chances of the baby dying.
 

The latest data on combat deaths in Afghanistan show that the gap in fatality rates between the UK and the US has widened still further.
 

Dame Deirdre Hine’s report on the 2009 Influenza Pandemic  makes a strong appeal for publication of the analyses on which the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) relied, a

Dame Deirdre Hine’s report on swine flu, published last Friday, acquits all involved of blame for spending £1.2 billion on a pandemic that turned out to be mild.

Clive Fairweather and I have reported 20-weekly on a) militar