Publications
Leukaemia: Towards Control
6 January 1980
Cancer < 1 min read|01/06/1980 Until the end of the 1960s leukaemia killed about 400 children annually in the United Kingdom. Excluding infant deaths (that is,…
Question of Balance: the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceutical Innovation
1 May 1980
Since this monograph was completed, two new stories concerning the safety of medicines have been featured prominently in the British press. The first has been on…
End Stage Renal Failure
1 April 1980
The United Kingdom’s performance in the treatment of End Stage Renal Failure reflects, in microcosm, many of the strengths and weaknesses of the National Health Service.…
Huntington’s Chorea
1 March 1980
The purpose of this paper is to describe the nature of Huntington’s chorea and to indicate broadly its costs to both society and affected individuals. The…
Perinatal Mortality in Britain – A Question of Class
1 December 1979
This OHE Briefing illustrates some of the difficulties inherent in making accurate international and international comparisons with regard to perinatal mortality, the most sensitive widely collected…
Dementia in Old Age
10 January 1979
Dementia — that is, irreversible and usually progressive destruction of the brain in old age, the causes of which have yet to be identified – is…
Immunisation for Everyone – The Polio Experience
1 September 1979
In the richer nations of Europe and North America the gaining of control over the common infectious illnesses was a long, gradual process. It was initiated…
Medicines for the year 2000
1 September 1979
A symposium held at the Royal College of Physicians, London in September 1978 by the Office of Health Economics. I do not want to trespass into…
Schizophrenia
1 April 1979
More people of working age who are in hospital or disabled in the community suffer from schizophrenic illness than any other potentially handicapping condition. In the…