Charlotte Haug

30.04.2012: In issue no. 7/2012 of this journal, Director Geir Stene-Larsen of the National Institute of Public Health claims that the swine-flu vaccine Pandemrix had been clinically tested and that my assertion in an editorial in issue 5/2012 that it had not been clinically tested therefore is wrong (1, 2)...

17.04.2012: Are carelessness, mistakes and cheating in research and publishing becoming more and more common, or have we simply got better at detecting them? In April 2000, Peter Kranke et al. published an article in the American journal Anesthesia & Analgesia: «Reported data on granisetron and postoperative...

06.03.2012: At least 35 children have been diagnosed as having narcolepsy since being vaccinated against «swine flu» in autumn 2009. What were the grounds for recommending mass vaccination of the entire Norwegian population? The American senator Howard Baker (born 1925) asked the damning question during the...

07.02.2012: Chronic fatigue syndrome is serious and exhausting for all concerned because it takes such different forms and because we do not yet know what causes it. But we will not get there any faster by holding a one-sided debate. «I fell down on the floor and cried for two hours», Robert Miller of Reno told...

10.01.2012: Should we be surprised by the new hearing-round memo on the regular GP scheme sent out by the Ministry of Health and Care Services? Perhaps not. Bjarne Håkon Hanssen took office as Minister of Health and Care Services on 20 June 2008. Before two weeks were up, he had visited all the country’s health...

29.11.2011: Our healthcare service must of course be evidence-based. But if it is not also confidence-based, we may lose a public health service with equal access for all Some of my best friends and brightest colleagues are associated with the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University, which I visit each...

20.09.2011: The events of 22 July this year were very special. Their consequences, however – for example for the healthcare system – are more general. «Does anybody need help?» The video of a man shouting out these words as he is running down the street Grubbegata holding a camera in front of him only minutes...