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• Flying abroad for treatment is now taking off

• Podcast: Sixty years through the eyes of a medical family

• Taking the pulse of the National Health Service at 60

• Hottest topics in biomedical science (PDF) - -

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Tensions in system are global symptom

The NHS reflects many of the trends in 21st-century health provision, writes Andrew Jack

Drug industry: Sceptics seek tonic from product launches

Andrew Jack on a sector struggling to satisfy shareholders

Information systems: Radical solution for ‘twin time bombs’

Geoffrey Nairn on the promise of modern technology

Research: Three technologies that could transform patient care

Clive Cookson looks at the hottest topics in biomedical science

Diagnostics: Testing systems prove their worth

New systems will save lives by catching disease earlier, writes Salamander Davoudi

US market: Pressures mount for employers

Rebecca Knight on why companies are taking a healthy interest in workers

Guest column: Rethinking the role of employers

Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg and Scott Wallace argue that US companies should stop complaining about healthcare and modify their own practices that are perpetuating the system’s problems

Profile: Technology at heart of Kaiser’s vision

The US private healthcare provider has an ambitious programme to sweep away paper-based patient records, writes Tali Yahalom

NHS at 60: Questions behind cosy consensus

Nicholas Timmins takes the pulse of a service fixed as a noble ideal in Britain’s psyche

Guest column: A Nice course of treatment

Michael Rawlins answers why the organisation has aroused such extraordinary international interest

USP Hospitales: Positive prognosis for Spanish private provider

Health tourism: Flying abroad for treatment takes off

Care homes: Tackling an age-old issue

Profile: Renovo


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