President Donald Trump touched a raw nerve with the executive order to ban, temporarily, visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Amid the wide global outcry, there were also calls from international clinicians and academics, including Nobel laureates, to boycott medical meetings in America. Yet at the same time, health professionals here in the US and elsewhere appear […]
One of the first executive orders that Donald Trump signed after his inauguration as president of the United States was to impede the financing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with “everything possible within the law.” There have been many commentaries speculating on the potential fallout from such a move, but we think the issues […]
How should a European clinical academic react to the fact that the US election appears to have sent a racist, misogynist, climate change denier to the White House? One response, arising in the context of President Trump’s ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries entering the US, has been a call to boycott US […]
The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency was bookended by two definitive and controversial actions. The first, on 23 January, was the reinstatement and expansion of the “Mexico City policy”—a piece of legislation that prevents NGOs that receive federal funding from providing abortion counselling. There has been a lot of debate, particularly in global health circles, […]
“Resistance” is an evocative term common to the natural and social sciences where it denotes the act of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. In the so called hard sciences it is easily identified and measured. A physicist, for example, will gauge resistance in ohms; in medicine, the intrarenal arterial resistance index (RI) is used to calculate […]
Donald Trump has only been in office for a few weeks and already the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been taken. This pre-emptive strike; a demonstration of Republican machismo, lays the groundwork for more regressive health policies. Trump spent much of his political campaign lambasting what many consider Obama’s highest achievement […]
What is the medical world to do since president Donald Trump’s executive order, issued on 27 January 2017, banning citizens of seven Muslim majority countries from entering the US for 90 days. We have seen the emotive images of people entering the US and the passionate demonstrations. We read about the toing and froing of […]
Since its inception, nearly every member of the Republican Party has run vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Ashish Jha looks at what might happen next. […]
A week ago, the news was awash with shock, dismay, and outrage over President Trump’s executive order of 27 January, which temporarily suspended the United States’s refugee program and indefinitely barred the admittance of refugees from Syria. While it has been heartening to read reports of protests, and to see the number of professional and […]
A year ago, the idea that a property magnate come reality TV star could become the most powerful person on earth was unthinkable. A week ago, the idea that he may have any involvement in the NHS seemed ludicrous. But then Theresa May was invited to become the first foreign dignitary to have an audience […]