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Articles by Are Brean
A fairer spread
- Are Brean
14.06.2022:
The global food crisis has gained pace due to war, the pandemic, and climate change. The vulnerability of the global food systems puts global health progress at risk. The massive increase in food production that we have witnessed over the last decade is one of humanity's greatest technological and...
Correction: The liberation of motherhood
- Are Brean
31.05.2022:
Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2022; 142: 667. On page 667 of issue no. 8/2022 of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, the following should be written in the English version of the article: In Romania, abortion rights are being gradually undermined, in pace with the increasing problems in...
The liberation of motherhood
- Are Brean
23.05.2022:
The right to abortion is under threat in the United States and parts of Europe. Health is a fundamental human right that can never be taken for granted. On 30 May 2022, it will be 44 years since the Norwegian parliament (the Storting), with a majority of one, voted in favour of elective abortions up...
Light in the darkness
- Are Brean
13.12.2021:
The pandemic has changed the world. There is more inequality and injustice. But there is also some light ahead. Two years have now passed since the previously unknown SARS-CoV-2 respiratory virus was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China. Before the end of the year, nearly 50 million people across the...
Ordinary people's health service
- Are Brean
19.10.2021:
The Hurdal platform paves the way for strengthening the public health service. However, the promises are numerous and somewhat vague. How well will they stand the test in the daily political grind and when confronted with the parliamentary majority? On 13 October 2021, the Labour Party and the...
Health and safety first
- Are Brean
06.09.2021:
The traditional health policy issues have failed to turn up the heat in this year's election campaign. The greatest threat to public health comes from elsewhere. 'Health and safety first'. Such was the motto that the 2020 Annual Representative Meeting of the Norwegian Medical Association adopted as...
Register first, report later
- Are Brean
28.06.2021:
The number of clinical trials conducted in Norway is set to double by 2025. This matters little unless the results are reported. Clinical research helps provide better and safer treatment, gives patients access to new diagnostics and methods of treatment, helps rationalise the health services and...
Constrained research
- Are Brean
22.03.2021:
When researchers are threatened, harassed and forcibly silenced, this is an attack on public enlightenment – and on democracy. Jonas F. Ludvigsson, paediatrician and professor of clinical epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, was completely unprepared for what was to come. On 6 January 2021, the...