Health
Irish lawmakers debate abortion law for second day
Irish lawmakers will resume discussion on controversial new abortion legislation later Thursday after failing to go to a final vote despite debating into the early hours.
Jul 11, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Newsom signs mental health care overhaul. Will it make a dent in homelessness crisis?
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday to push some Californians with severe mental illness into treatment, kicking off what's sure to be a long and challenging process to get the unprecedented new framework up and ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Other
Analysis: UK right-to-die law will still not succeed
Analysis by Dr Iain Brassington, ethicist, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester:
Dec 16, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Care home study highlights COVID's mental toll
Being unable to see and touch loved ones during the pandemic has triggered a range of negative emotions among study participants, researchers say.
Apr 19, 2021
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Health
New research calls for relaxation of abortion care laws in Britain and the USA
Experts from The University of Manchester and The University of Bristol are calling for permanent laws allowing so-called 'pills by post' abortion services to be enacted in Great Britain and the U.S., in order to address ...
Jun 29, 2020
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Health
Penn professor urges physicians to help victims of torture seeking asylum
Refugees seeking asylum in the United States are twice as likely to be granted protection if their application is supported by medical documentation of torture, writes Jules Lipoff, MD, an assistant professor of Clinical ...
Mar 7, 2016
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HIV & AIDS
Control of HIV pandemic will not be achieved without radical improvement in support for sex workers
Across the world, in high- and low-income countries, women, men, and transgender people who sell sex are subjected to repressive and discriminatory law, policy, and practice, which in turn fuel human rights violations against ...
Jul 22, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Rigid treatments can cause disease to spread
Around 10 million people worldwide fall ill from tuberculosis every year and 1.6 million people die of it. Particularly burdened by the disease are the sub-Saharan African countries.
Jun 25, 2020
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Health
Care home admissions risk breaching human rights of older people
Thousands of older people in low and middle-income countries are at risk of abuse and human rights violations when being admitted to care homes, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Mar 23, 2018
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Medical economics
Decades of progress gone in one year: Tigray's healthcare system has been destroyed
The war in Ethiopia's Tigray region broke out on 4 November 2020. A survey done in parts of Tigray and investigative reports by human rights bodies Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch show that thousands of civilians ...
Nov 2, 2021
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