Dr Aoife Doran — currently on a six-month posting with MSF in Lebanon, just 31km from the border with Syria — recalls her arrival in the Middle East and the challenges of her role as a PHC doctor.

Experts writing in a new Lancet series on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia have proposed a “bold goal” of ending all preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2035.

We present a summary of the National Cancer Registry of Ireland’s special report examining patterns and trends of colorectal cancer incidence, mortality, treatment and survival in Ireland during the period 1994-2010.

The Canadian health system may need to nurse its wounds after a new staff survey has damaged its reputation as one of the best countries to be sick in, suggests Dr Muiris Houston.

Concluding his peek behind the Iron Curtain on assignment with the WHO, Dr Garrett FitzGerald recalls how a few dollars could always buck Communist protocol.

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By Lloyd Mudiwa.

By Catherine Reilly.