British nurse Lucy Letby was last week sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven infants in her care, and attempting to murder a further six.
Aug 31, 2023
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Victims' agency and needs, independent of their desire to exit trafficking, should be the focus of health care services for individuals who have been sexually exploited, concludes a new study by researchers with McGill University's ...
Aug 30, 2023
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Three Lancaster University professors have argued that it is time to move beyond a medicalized approach to assisted dying.
Aug 30, 2023
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A "rock star" doctor who tested tens of thousands of people for COVID-19 in the pandemic's early months in a badly-stricken California desert community has pleaded guilty to misbranding cosmetic drugs, authorities said Thursday.
Aug 25, 2023
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Fearful of risking their jobs, jeopardizing state funding for their institutions, and further politicizing health care, Florida hospital leaders have been reluctant to speak out against a new law that requires them to ask ...
Aug 24, 2023
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A succession of power outages at a Los Angeles hospital prompted the evacuation of 28 patients in critical condition to other hospitals early Tuesday, while 213 other patients were moved to another building in the medical ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Colleges and universities wanting to commit to health and education equity without using affirmative action can turn to the UC Davis School of Medicine for best practices, according to a new article published this week in ...
Aug 16, 2023
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The US Supreme Court threw Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement into question Thursday, accepting a challenge to the deal's immunizing the Sackler family, which controlled the drugmaker, from future litigation.
Aug 11, 2023
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In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. settled a lawsuit that the estate of Henrietta Lacks had filed against the biotech ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Outbreaks of polycystic echicnococcosis, a life-threatening zoonotic disease, are driven by regional climate changes, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported ...
Aug 7, 2023
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