Medico-Legal Category

Looking at how the legal and medical professions work together to improve patient safety.

The role of doctors in the assisted dying debate

Ageing
Mouth Care Matters in Older People
Our population is ageing as the health care workforce is ever more stretched; is mouth care being sacrificed on the altar of busyness? The scale of the problem Health journalist …
Mental Health, Nutrition
Successful Support for Parents of Anorexia patients
Anorexia nervosa is one of the most severe psychiatric diseases in female adolescents. Its origin is co-conditional on a series of biological and genetic factors and must be treated in …
Diabetes, Global Reach
Diabetes – The Facts
Diabetes – the facts One in 15 people in the UK have diabetes. This includes one million people who have Type 2 but haven’t yet been diagnosed. In the UK, someone is …
Mental Health, Psychology, Sexual Health, Transgender
Psychiatric Assessments Creating Depression and Suicide among …
Around forty per cent of transgender people have attempted to take their own lives at some point in time. That’s a shocking, harrowing statistic, supplied by the National Centre for …
Mental Health
ADHD Drug not linked to Psychotic Symptoms
New research provides reassurance that the most common ADHD drug is not linked to psychotic symptoms The most commonly prescribed ADHD drug methylphenidate does not increase the risk of psychotic …