To delay the development of treatment that cures a lethal disease that kills 100.000 people per year is to be responsible for the deaths of those 100.000 people, even if you’ve never seen them ~ Julian Savulescu, Romanian philosopher at the University of Oxford Data...
The World Marrow Fund is dedicated to improving the lives of patients with leukaemia and other related ailments by securing the support needed to achieve positive outcomes. Our patients range in age from 2-60 years old, hailing from the Caribbean, the United States,...
Overtreatment is one of the major critical issues of health systems all over the world. It imposes a heavy burden on the shoulders of both individual patients and societies. It is rooted in overdiagnosis which happens when people are diagnosed with non-harmful...
For quite some time now, we’ve known that lifestyle has a big impact on people and the illnesses they might already have, or may be developing. Not just on cancer but also on diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Yet why is it so hard to live well and stay healthy...
Armenia’s National Centre of Oncology (NCO; public hospital and the only comprehensive cancer centre in the country) is implementing a project to improve access to palliative care services. On October 8 2022, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, a large new...
