healthcare

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How to care for carers

10 Jun 2013

Carers’ week (10-16 June) will focus on the 6.5 million people who are carers. Many are providing palliative care for a relative or friend at home. A...

Can you put a price on health?

23 May 2013

As health services strive to improve quality and reduce costs, researchers study the benefits – and the pitfalls – of ‘pay for performance’ in...

The drugs don’t work

19 Dec 2012

Drugs that do not represent value for money or are medically unproven may be increasingly reaching one of Europe’s largest pharmaceutical markets...

Commercialising medical device innovation

13 Jul 2012

New medical devices take a long time to reach the market – and many never make it. Jon Johnson, a researcher at Cambridge’s Institute for...

With the people, for the people: applying mental health research

21 May 2012

From campus to community, the worlds of mental health research and medical practice are being brought together by a collaboration involving...

Visions of future healthcare

23 Mar 2012

On 14 March, academics and members of the public gathered at Emmanuel College to hear a panel of distinguished speakers discuss their personal...

Advising older people to help them prepare for the future.

Report backs government-funded older people’s advice service

18 Jan 2012

Analysis of the FirstStop initiative reveals that the service saves money and improves quality of life.

Confronting homophobia in South Africa

27 Sep 2011

Cambridge academic Dr Andrew Tucker champions a direct approach to challenging the homophobia that destroys so many lives in South Africa. He has...

Tea Party protest against President Obama's healthcare reforms

Healthcare - from post-communism to Obama

23 Jun 2011

The fierce opposition to President Obama’s healthcare policy in the US and the challenges facing health reformists in post-communist Europe are to be...