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TOPIC GUIDES: Health & Medicine

TOPIC GUIDES IN THE NEWS

The 10,000 steps a day myth: how health apps can do more harm than good, Telegraph, 21 February 2017

Why egg freezing might work for women who want a work life balance, Washington Post, 7 February 2017

What are new laws on cigarette and tobacco packaging?, The Sun, 3 January 2017

Vegetarianism

"We should not eat meat"

Immunocore

Plain packaging

"Plain packaging for tobacco products is a good idea"

Berlin 2017: Compulsory Vaccinations

"Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory"

Medical data sharing

"Medical data sharing is a threat to our privacy"

Social egg freezing

"Social egg freezing empowers women"

Health monitoring

"The constant monitoring of our health does more harm than good"

DM Israel: Compulsory Vaccinations

"Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory"

DM Israel: Assisted Suicide

"Physician assisted suicide should be legalised"

Sugar

"The UK should introduce a levy on sugary drinks"

Genome Editing

"We should welcome the advent of human genome editing"

Sex Selective Abortion

"The UK should ban sex selective abortion"

Compulsory Vaccinations

"Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory"

Assisted Dying

"Physician assisted suicide should be legalised"

Unhealthy Lifestyles

"Unhealthy lifestyles are not the business of government"

Three Parent Babies

"We should embrace the advent of three parent IVF"

Ageing

"Attempts to extend radically the human lifespan should be welcomed not feared"

Fertility Tourism

"Commercial surrogacy in poorer countries is exploitative"

Animal Experimentation

"Animal experimentation cannot be justified "

Sex Selection

"The UK ban on using assisted reproductive technology for sex-selection should be lifted"

IVF

"It is irresponsible to provide IVF to women in their fifties"

Clinical Trials

"Clinical Trials in developing countries are exploitative"

Embryo Screening

"The genetic screening of embryos devalues human life"

Boozy Britain

"Minimum alcohol pricing would be good for Britain"

Organ Donation

"We should introduce a system of presumed consent for organ donation"

Performance Enhancing Drugs

"Allowing the use of enhancement drugs will not undermine the spirit of sport"

Public Health

"The government should take tougher action on unhealthy behaviour"

Smart Drugs

"We should embrace the use of smart drugs"

Healthy Behaviour

"Government should use economic incentives to encourage healthy behaviour"

Organ and Tissue Donation

"Financial incentives provide the best solution to the crisis of organ and tissue donation "

Alternative Medicine and Indian Healthcare

"Alternative medicine should be embraced as an essential part of healthcare in India"

Designer Babies

"Human genetic engineering is a step too far"

Complementary Medicine

"Complementary and alternative medicine should not be provided on the NHS"

Access to modern medicine Scotland

"The Scottish Medicines Consortium does a good job of recommending which new drugs should be made available on the NHS"

Access to modern medicine

"NICE does a good job of recommending which new drugs should be made available on the NHS"

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