Medico-Legal Category

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

Medics under fire

Infection/Disease, Lifestyle
Phone Pan-Demonium: Half of Brits Use Their …
People spend 12 minutes a day using their mobile on the toilet and 14 minutes using their tablet This is risky behaviour, as more than 1.8 million people have accidentally …
Global Reach, Infection/Disease
How Malaria Parasite Grows and Multiplies
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding how the parasite that causes malaria is able to multiply at such an alarming rate, which could be a vital clue in …
Infection/Disease
The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary
First Aid
Knife Crime – Would You Know How …
Knife crime is at a record high in the UK. Just yesterday, a normal high street in South London was the scene of a terror attack as a man stabbed …
Heart Disease, Lifestyle, Nutrition
Mercury can Attenuate the Beneficial health Effects …
Higher serum long-chain omega-3 fatty acid concentration, a marker for fish consumption, was beneficially associated with cardiac performance in middle-aged and older men from eastern Finland. However, methylmercury exposure, mainly …