Health
Zika-hit nations should allow access to contraception, abortion: UN
The United Nations on Friday urged countries hit by the dangerous Zika virus to let women have access to contraception and abortion.
Feb 5, 2016
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Health
The human cost of cuts to Spain's prized health system
"Either we eat or I take my pills," Maximiliano Diego recalled a patient confessing after stopping treatment because cuts in Spain's public health system forced him to pay for medication from his own pocket.
Dec 16, 2015
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Patient deaths do not increase during doctor strikes
As doctors in England prepare for strike action next month, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, USA) show that, in high-income countries, "patients do not come to serious harm during ...
Nov 25, 2015
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
The freedom to roam for people with dementia
The debilitating effect of dementia on lifestyle is well-documented, not least relating to the ability and confidence of those with the condition to make their way around.
Nov 16, 2015
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American College of Physicians urges physicians to oppose mass deportation
The American College of Physicians (ACP) today called on physicians, individually and collectively, to speak out against proposals to deport the 12 million U.S. residents who lack documentation of legal residency status, ...
Sep 1, 2015
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Health
Suffering in silence
Female genital mutilation (FGM): the United Nations considers it a violation of human rights; the Australian Government, a criminal offence. Though it has been outlawed in many countries, the 2000-year-old practice continues, ...
Aug 3, 2015
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Other
French doctors decide whether to allow vegetative man to die
French doctors will decide Thursday whether to allow a severely brain-damaged man to die in the latest turn of a bitter legal battle over his fate which ended up at Europe's top rights court.
Jul 23, 2015
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Health
Australians with intellectual disability in the dark about death
Researchers from the University of Sydney have embarked on a landmark project to ensure Australians with intellectual disability understand the concept of death and their own mortality, and are appropriately supported to ...
Jun 29, 2015
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Other
French vegetative man's parents to appeal decision allowing him to die
The parents of a severely brain-damaged Frenchman will challenge a European Court of Human Rights decision to allow him to die, their lawyers said Friday.
Jun 26, 2015
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Europe court to rule if quadriplegic has right to die
Europe's human rights court will decide on Friday if a man in a vegetative state can be taken off life support in a case that ignited a fierce euthanasia debate in France.
Jun 4, 2015
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