Some months back a few press releases began appearing on my desk from an Oxford based organisation calling itself the Social Issues Research Centre, or SIRC, claiming to be an "independent, non pr ...
A new declaration of patients' rights drawn up by medicine's conscience, the World Medical Association, seems to offer very little in the way of rights when the chips are down. ...
The UK has published guidelines on the use of autologous blood transfusions where patients are given back their own blood, which they earlier donated in advance of a planned operation (BMJ, 11 De ...
American Congress has slammed the Health and Nutrition Information Service which advises government departments for putting out misleading information on the nutritional content of foods. ...
A study by the Thames Cancer Registry highlights the confusion among doctors over the best way of treating breast cancer. ...