Medico-Legal Category

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

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All Creatures
The dangers of Christmas for pets
Christmas is potentially a very dangerous for your pets. Copious amounts of chocolate are around at this time of year. It starts on December 1st with chocolate filled advent calendars, …
Infection/Disease, Innovation, Pharmacy/Drugs
Unravelling the mystery of bacterial persister cells
New research, from scientists at Imperial College London, unravels how so-called bacterial persister cells manipulate our immune cells, potentially opening new avenues to finding ways of clearing these bacterial cells …
Junior Doctors, Lifestyle
Books for a medical Christmas
Christmas is rapidly approaching and an abundance of compelling newly published books to choose from. From ‘A Listening Doctor’ by Jeremy Bendy, a moving memoir by a renowned physician and …
Neurology
Autistica’s Discover Network
Research is slow. Research is expensive. And there’s no guarantee that it will produce anything useful. But it’s the only long-term potential solution to certain problems. Autistica’s Discover is a virtual …
Eyes, Paediatrics
Don’t buy laser pens for your children
A worrying number of adults would consider buying a laser pen as a Christmas present for a child, a new survey from RoSPA has revealed. One in four (24 per …