Articles
We are delighted to publish articles written for you and by you, particularly on global health issues and we select the best ones to publish here. For more information about what we are looking for and for our guidelines on what makes a good article, worthy of publication, please go to Write for Us then send your submissions to us at student@lancet.com
Access to Healthcare
- 04/03/2010 Tuberculosis in Chiapas, Mexico: A Human Rights Perspective
- 06/01/2010 Primary Health Care and Health Inequality in Rural Yemen
- 17/12/2009 The Cost of Free Healthcare
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Essential Medicines
- 12/11/2009 When HIV Negative in Africa Can Be a Death Sentence
- 06/06/2008 Improving Access to Medicines for Heart Disease in Poor Countries: A Student-Led Campaign
- 14/01/2008 Influences on Prescribing in Primary Care
Vulnerable Groups
- 15/10/2009 Medical Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel
- 03/09/2009 Child Health and Sanitation Week: A Better Way to Save Children in Developing Nations
- 20/07/2009 Stigma of Mental Illness & HIV: Causes & Strategies
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Climate Change
- 30/06/2009 A Healthy Planet?
- 23/01/2009 A fresh look at air pollution
- 05/12/2008 The effect of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases
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Communicable Diseases
- 04/03/2010 Tuberculosis in Chiapas, Mexico: A Human Rights Perspective
- 28/01/2010 The Eradication of Polio – A Successful Story (Almost) and Where We Went Wrong
- 24/12/2009 "Where Words Come out From the Depths of Truth..."
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HIV/AIDS
- 20/07/2009 Stigma of Mental Illness & HIV: Causes & Strategies
- 23/03/2009 Will the Present Efforts Defeat HIV? A Realistic Appraisal
- 08/01/2009 If not you, then who? The possible role of altruism in the development of the HIV vaccination
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Malaria
- 30/12/2008 From eradication to control: what DDT taught the world about the politics of disease
- 09/12/2008 The complex interplay of social, political, and economic factors in medicine: the paediatrics malaria endemic in Shirati, Tanzania
- 06/10/2007 The case for free mass distribution of bednets against malaria
Measles
- 20/06/2008 Measles: The continued threat of a preventable disease
- 12/03/2008 Avoidable blindness in Sub-Saharan Africa
MRSA
- 28/03/2008 MRSA: a growing global problem
NTD
- 12/03/2008 Avoidable blindness in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 26/10/2007 37 Million and Counting
TB
- 04/03/2010 Tuberculosis in Chiapas, Mexico: A Human Rights Perspective
- 24/12/2009 "Where Words Come out From the Depths of Truth..."
- 12/11/2009 When HIV Negative in Africa Can Be a Death Sentence
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Genetics
- 02/07/2008 The Human Epigenome Project
Health Systems
- 11/02/2010 Nudging Healthcare in the Right Direction: Libertarian Paternalism and Better Health
- 04/02/2010 The North-South Divide: A Spatial Polarisation of Britain’s Health Inequalities
- 10/12/2009 Rebuilding Afghanistan’s Health Care System
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Human Development
- 10/09/2009 Financial Strategies to Prevent Global Hunger
- 19/05/2009 Hope for a Hungry Child
- 16/01/2009 The threat of tobacco farming
Global Poverty
- 10/09/2009 Financial Strategies to Prevent Global Hunger
- 19/05/2009 Hope for a Hungry Child
- 16/01/2009 The threat of tobacco farming
Human Rights
- 10/12/2008 Health, human rights and the powerless
- 21/08/2007 The Global Compact: Human Rights protection or Marketing tool?
- 13/08/2007 Ed Mills: A champion of health and human rights
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Humanitarian Affairs
- 26/01/2010 Primary Trauma Care, From Pakistan to Palestine: An Interview with Sir Terence English
- 03/12/2009 Minefields and Medicine
- 26/12/2008 Conflict and healthcare; power and politics gone astray
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Conflict
- 26/01/2010 Primary Trauma Care, From Pakistan to Palestine: An Interview with Sir Terence English
- 03/12/2009 Minefields and Medicine
- 26/12/2008 Conflict and healthcare; power and politics gone astray
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Emergencies and Disasters
- 06/06/2008 Children Survivors of Displacment and War in Northern Uganda: A Cohort Study of the Itinerant "Night Commuters" and the Importance of Shelter and Security
- 11/02/2008 Disaster medicine: the birth of a specialty?
- 12/12/2007 The struggle for health after cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh
In the News
- 28/11/2008 EC Competition enquiry into pharma companies
- 20/11/2008 Riot police break up health worker protest in Zimbabwe
- 13/11/2008 Ending the R&D crisis in global health: a new report from Oxfam
Lancet Seminars
- 06/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Diabetes in Asia
- 12/03/2010 Lancet Seminar: Bacterial septic arthritis in adults
- 13/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy
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Medical Education
- 20/01/2010 When Biomedicine Meets Cultural Anthropology
- 14/01/2010 All hands on deck: Interdisciplinary Approach to Tackling Global Health Challenges
- 01/10/2009 Why Does Everyone Love a Brain Surgeon?
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Medical Ethics
- 15/04/2009 Decisions at the End of Life: Palliative Care and Voluntary Euthanasia.
- 17/03/2009 Counterfeit and Substandard Medication: An Underappreciated Threat
- 23/10/2008 Utilitarian philosophy and a doctor’s dilemma
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NGOs
- 24/06/2009 Profile: Dr. Frank Bia, Medical Director of AmeriCares
- 13/06/2008 Trouble in paradise
- 09/05/2008 Inequalities in Human Resources for Health – an interview with the medical relief charity, Merlin
Non-Communicable Diseases
- 06/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Diabetes in Asia
- 19/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Eating Disorders
- 25/02/2010 Bronchial Asthma: An Unsolved Health Problem
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Alcohol
Cancer
- 26/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Non-melanoma skin cancer
- 18/02/2010 Breast Cancer - Lack of Awareness About Screening in India
- 28/07/2009 Occupational Cancers: Are We Safe in the Workplace?
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Cardiovascular disease
- 26/11/2009 Chronic Mountain Sickness
- 14/11/2007 Cardiovascular disease and global health: an overview of a major "neglected disease"
Diabetes
- 06/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Diabetes in Asia
- 23/12/2008 Diabetic nephropathy: an indian perspective
- 17/04/2008 The global diabetes epidemic 3: access to essential medicine
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Mental Health
- 19/02/2010 Lancet Seminar: Eating Disorders
- 29/10/2009 Forensic Psychiatry: Current Status and Future Impact on Global Mental Health
- 20/07/2009 Stigma of Mental Illness & HIV: Causes & Strategies
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Neurological Disorders
- 22/04/2009 Interview: Learning How to Stem Multiple Sclerosis
- 04/06/2008 The Epidemiology and Treatment of Parkinson’s disease
- 16/03/2008 Migraine: An expensive headache to the world
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Nutritional deficiencies
- 04/06/2008 The Global Burden of Iron Deficiency
Perspectives
- 09/02/2009 The Right to Health and the Barefoot Doctor
- 28/11/2008 Adjusting – 13 years after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 27/11/2008 Africa revisited
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Power, Politics & Global Health
- 08/10/2009 Gun Ownership and Suicide
- 06/04/2009 Health Systems: Lessons from Abroad
- 25/10/2008 Power, politics and health in Iraq
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Profiles
- 26/01/2010 Primary Trauma Care, From Pakistan to Palestine: An Interview with Sir Terence English
- 20/01/2010 When Biomedicine Meets Cultural Anthropology
- 22/10/2009 Eleni Petridou and the European Code Against Injuries
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Student Organisations
- 20/07/2009 Stigma of Mental Illness & HIV: Causes & Strategies
- 03/06/2009 Nepal Medical College Red Cross Youth Circle
- 20/01/2009 Admirable and Unforgettable!
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AMSA
- 05/06/2008 Medical students on a mission to change the world: a continuing journey
- 14/05/2008 Student Action in a New Integrative Medicine Model
- 24/04/2008 Outreach Clinic: Real Worlds Colliding
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East Asian Medical Students' Conference 2009
- 20/01/2009 Admirable and Unforgettable!
- 16/01/2009 Memoirs
- 15/01/2009 An Event that never stopped amazing!
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IFMSA
- 14/03/2008 The Monterrey Declaration on the Fundamental Right to Health
- 14/03/2008 The IFMSA Declaration on Migration of Healthcare Professionals
- 18/02/2008 Teddy Bear Hospital
Ten Questions
- 17/03/2010 K.B. Ashok's TLS Ten Question Challenge
- 05/03/2010 Pranab Chatterjee's TLS Ten Question Challenge
Viewpoints
- 19/02/2009 Research and Me
- 17/02/2009 What is the future of the NHS?
- 05/01/2009 VIEWPOINT Primary care: a call for a return to ethics and values
Women's Health
- 11/03/2010 Mother and Child Health in India
- 18/02/2010 Breast Cancer - Lack of Awareness About Screening in India
- 19/11/2009 A Silent Maternal Health Crisis
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