Thursday 15 November
One of the more horrifying stories I’ve read of late was about the man who was found dead in his home buried at the end of a very long tunnel of rubbish that stretched all the way to his door.
‘Genki’ drinks – nutrition and energy beverages – have flooded the Japanese market yet manufacturers are now targeting female consumers and soaking up foreign customers. Is saturation imminent?
Affluent Arabs used to head to hospitals in the US when they needed treatment. But now, post-Iraq, they are increasingly choosing Germany’s private clinics. With the average foreign patient spending an estimated €80,000 a…
What do you need to run a great ambulance service? In our series looking at the brands that make our lives work, we visited the City of Helsinki Rescue Department to find out. It employs 570 full-time rescue and emergency…
Thursday 1 September
Smokers looking to buy a pack of Marlboro Lights in Sydney or Winfield Blues in Perth will soon have a hard time telling the difference at the cash register.
‘The Lancet’ has been in existence for 189 years and is considered an institution in the publishing industry. Monocle meets the staff of the British medical weekly that is always authoritative and occasionally controversial…
Thursday 31 January
Smoking is an issue we're all aware of but are we being told enough about alternatives?
Good medical care is about more than mending broken bones – it also fixes nations. These are the countries and people building healthier states.
Stay fighting fit with this month's pick of new-generation exercise gear. For post-workout we have toiletries and refreshing craft beer.
Sunday 6 June
Japanese cigarette taxes go up in October, and I wish I could gloat.
Consumers are increasingly looking beyond their native borders for low-cost, quality healthcare – and if there’s a safari thrown into the package, all the better. Monocle looks at the global hotspots attracting patients…
Big-name French pharma was conspicuously absent at this year’s annual Pharmagora fair. But far from fading into obscurity, the Paris show has been looking to Francophone African markets and the lucrative bio-organic sector…
In Japan, if you’re not doing ‘rajio taiso’ you’re either dead or you’ve slept in. Millions of Japanese rise early every morning to get together and do radio exercises – the rest do them at work.
Austria is reinvigorating its brand and stealing some of Switzerland’s reputation for being the home of Alpine modernity and great healthcare. Nowhere epitomises the trend more than the Lanserhof.
Wooden toys for the boys, skin treats and feel the Sap rising with some Scandinavian fizz.
Thursday 26 January
Five years ago, stood in the concrete shell of a building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, I made a deal.
Wednesday 7 December
If you live in Utsjoki, the northernmost village in the entire EU, there are a few consumer items that are more important to you than others.
Sunday 26 June
If further proof were needed of China’s boom, it was on display last week in a Guangzhou hall, sporting garish shades of locally branded lycra.
Thursday 3 June
On 1 July, New Jersey is slated to become the 14th state in America to legalise medical marijuana, after five years of lobbying by pro-pot activists.
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