Are Brean

23.06.2020: The coronavirus pandemic is now affecting the poor regions of the world. This threatens the progress of global health. The state of global health has never been better than at the start of the decade 2020–29. Life expectancy in the last 70 years has increased by 25 years, many infectious diseases...

04.05.2020: Healthcare personnel are working where the risk of infection is greatest. They must be adequately protected. Clinical work has always been fraught with risk: Each day, decisions must be made on the basis of uncertainty. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk has acquired a new and terrifying aspect...

30.03.2020: 'We are placing our journal at your disposal,' the editors of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association stated during the Spanish flu in 1919. We are now doing the same in 2020. The major difference is one of momentum. During the worst pandemic the world has seen until now – the Spanish flu...

18.11.2019: For nearly 20 years, Norwegian health budgets have sponsored undocumented and dubious treatment of children with severe brain injury. There are few indications that this practice will cease. An American 'treatment centre' (The Family Hope Center (1)) has a founder and director with no traceable...

19.08.2019: Independent research institutions and universities are key elements of a well-functioning democratic society. However, the principle of academic freedom is under pressure. It is felt in Norway as well. In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has gradually seized increasing control of the country's...

06.05.2019: Pharmaceuticals need not cure anything at all, and undocumented dietary supplements are permitted to pose as medical drugs. Norwegian consumers and patients are the losers. According to the Ebers papyrus that dates from around 1500 BCE, a medical drug must contain three components: an active...

11.02.2019: Data protection is just one of the many statutory obligations within the public health service. When data protection takes precedence over the patient's best interests, things are moving in the wrong direction. Responsibility lies with the state as the owner of public hospitals. 'Your details will...

14.01.2019: A new study, published just in time for the New Year's resolutions, shows that the antihypertensive effect of exercise may be equal to that of drugs. The advertising campaigns in January for the gyms around Norway are launched every year with the same regularity as the New Year's resolutions. This...