Review

Osteoporosis and the risk of fracture

1 January 1990

Osteoporosis has been a long recognised disorder even if its causes have not. Research undertaken by Little (1973) found examples from as early as the sixth…

Mental Health in the 1990s: from Custody to Care?

1 December 1989

Mental distress or dysfunction serious enough to be regarded as illness is a common experience. In the United Kingdom four to five million people a year…

Diabetes: a Model for Health Care Management

10 January 1989

Since the Office of Health Economics first published a paper about diabetes 25 years ago a great deal has happened. For one thing diabetes mellitus has…

Holes in Therapy

1 July 1989

The text of a lecture delivered at the Conference of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations in Paris in June 1989… The text of a…

HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom

1 January 1988

Since the first identification of the AIDS syndrome in Los Angeles in 1981 (and the description of the virus responsible- now termed HIV 1 -in 1983)…

AIDS Virus: Forecasting Its Impact

1 December 1986

In purely quantitative terms, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) might not appear to have warranted the remarkable amount of attention it has attracted since 1982. By…

Mental Handicap: Partnership in the Community?

1 July 1986

Since the start of the 1970s the pattern of care available to more severely ‘mentally handicapped’ people in Britain has undergone major changes. The passing of…

Cystic Fibrosis

1 March 1986

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetically determined disease in Britain. Each year about 400 infants are born with the disorder and of these probably…

Private Health Care

1 July 1985

This survey covers all major areas of health care in Britain and describes the activity of the private and voluntary sectors in each. The organisation of…