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. - http://hrw.org/english/docs/2000/07/11/global2195.htm
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 an - http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/339/25/1851/
Medical Malpractice lawsuits - Legal Information on medical malpractice lawsuits. - http://www.njlaws.com/medical_malpractice.htm
Infostat, Cargo-Cult Science and the Policy Sausage-machine - Paper on the managerial takeover of clinical practice, and how the process of medical science is distorted by politics and dubious trendy theories. - http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/cargocult.html
Public Health and Personal Freedom - Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol. - http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/healthfreed.html