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Many of the points in Fazel and Lennox’s editorial about caring for patients at risk of psychosis related violence make clinical sense.1 Refusal to pursue charges in response to violent incidents that ...
MPs have voted decisively to abolish the possibility of prosecuting any woman in England or Wales for terminating her own pregnancy at any stage, in a move described as the biggest change to UK ...
Adriana Smith, a brain dead nurse who has been kept on life support to comply with Georgia’s laws on abortion and personhood, gave birth on 13 June to a premature baby boy at Emory Hospital Midtown in ...
The international community must act now to stop starvation in Gaza, writes Bob Kitchen In Gaza, people are getting closer to starvation every day. We are witnessing one of the worst human made ...
I’ve taught medical ethics to clinicians who are facing disciplinary action. Some are under investigation by their employer or regulator, others are suspended, and a few have been struck off but seek ...
Another expert from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has resigned in protest at Robert F Kennedy Jr’s purge of its advisory committee on immunisation practices.1 Fiona Havers ...
The growing trend of patients filming themselves receiving medical care and uploading it to social media sites such as TikTok is causing unease among healthcare staff, the Society of Radiographers has ...
New draconian police guidance reflects how outdated our abortion laws really are, says Sarah Salkeld As UK parliament prepares to vote on landmark reforms that would finally remove the threat of ...
Cuts outlined in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act could leave 7.6 million more people uninsured, force an extra 1.3 million people to go without the medications they need, and ...
Individuals responsible for severe or irreversible damage to the environment could face up to 20 years in prison under plans to criminalise the act of ecocide in the Dominican Republic. A bill has ...
The General Medical Council has placed conditions on training in obstetrics and gynaecology at North Manchester General Hospital to deal with failures in standards, including not demonstrating a ...
Simpson and colleagues’ article on widening access to medical school is the latest reminder of our education system’s (missed) opportunity to improve medical care by increasing the number of doctors ...