In a new article in Science, historians at the Mailman School of
Public Health challenge claims that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease.
In a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of
Public Health and the City University of New York
challenge those
claims through a careful examination of the evidence.
This includes both
public law and private law
claims, and relates to, amongst other things:
challenges by way of judicial review to hospital closures and reconfigurations, availability of specific treatments and drugs, contractual and structural issues in the NHS (especially GPs and dentists), mental
health law, medical product liability, cases involving ethical questions such as consent to treatment, and cases relating to confidentiality and patient information.