Despite adoption of home testing in the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is still holding out.
- Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
We are entering a new age of genome sequencing, but we have to draw some ethical lines
The most ardent supporters of alcohol must admit it causes an immense amount of harm.
The Ebola pandemic cutting a swathe through West Africa is thought to have begun in December 2013. A year later the WHO estimates more than 20,000 men, women and children have been infected with the virus…
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. I usually begin my end of life ethics lecture with one of Dylan Thomas’ best-loved…
GlakoSmithKline (GSK) is currenlty feeling the heat from the allegations of foreign corruption that have erupted in China, Poland, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon and the company is scrambling to restore…
The current outbreak of Ebola is the worst in history. Almost 2,000 people have been infected and around 1,000 people have died. The outbreak seems to have originated in Guinea and has now spread to Sierra…
A century ago the world went to war. When the conflagration finally ended 10m soldiers lay dead. Among the fallen were 18 medical doctors who had trained at St George’s Hospital and countless more from…
Clinical research is going global. The number of trials conducted in countries like India and China is steadily growing and a significant proportion of marketing applications for new drugs in countries…
Many of us live in a world where we can access and edit personal information online and on the move. Whether it is checking bank balances, amending grocery orders, or informing the world of our most recent…
The American Surgeon General published the first federal government report linking smoking and ill health 50 years ago. The report also demanded that the American government take appropriate remedial action…
2013 was an auspicious year for medical research. A new vaccine for malaria was developed, there was a revolution in DNA analysis, and there was a major advance in human cloning when stem cells were produced…
It was late on a Friday afternoon in November. I was a 21 year-old medical student diligently waiting for an opportunity to practice some medical procedures when a patient was admitted who was happy for…
Patients have gone online, digital natives are entering medical schools and regulatory bodies, like the General Medical Council in the UK, are scrambling to respond to the impact these changes are having…
Legend has is that the first human transplant took place in the 3rd century AD. The “lucky” recipient was said to be a sacristian called Justinian who received a donated leg from a recently demised Ethiopian…
Black Wednesday. The July Phenomenon. The Killing Season. Disquieting. Disconcerting. Disturbing. To what event do these evocative terms refer? A stock market crash? A solar eclipse? Genocide? Not even…
Sometime in the third millennium BC, if not before, some entrepreneurial warrior donned a helmet to protect his brain from blows to the head. He may have been mocked as a coward, but soon enough copper…
Empathy and compassion, or the lack thereof, have been making waves in the healthcare arena. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, recently bemoaned a lack of compassion in the nursing profession…
In 1798 the British physician, Edward Jenner, described how he had used infective material from the pustules of patients suffering from cowpox to inoculate healthy children in order to immunise them against…
The concept of personal responsibility in health has an odd habit of falling in and out of fashion. Galen, the ancient Roman father of medicine, once declared it was shameful for a man to “suffer a pain…
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