Are Brean

14.12.2020: Trust based on openness has been crucial in tackling the coronavirus pandemic so far. The first vaccines will be approved soon. This has put openness and trust to a new test. If anyone had said a year ago that in the lead-up to Christmas 2020, we would be discussing in all seriousness how many...

30.10.2020: Navigating uncharted dangerous waters calls for prudence and level-headedness, not poorly judged sudden turns. This applies to the coronavirus pandemic as well. There is a great deal that we do not know: When will the first vaccines appear, how effective will they be and for how long will the...

26.10.2020: The National Health Service in the UK has adopted the world's first national plan for a climate-neutral healthcare sector. Who can launch a similar commitment in Norway? Anthropogenic climate change is the greatest threat to public health of our time (1). To limit global warming and reduce its...

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...