UK doctors fear toxic abuse over their research on trans issues
Fallout from the Cass review of transgender medical treatment in the UK continues. The Guardian interviewed doctors and researchers who complained that mere discussion of...
Quebec man has two healthy fingers amputated to relieve ‘body integrity dysphoria’
Doctors amputated the healthy fourth and fifth fingers of the left hand of a 20-year-old Quebec man because he believed that they were not part...
Israel – Hamas war: medics are dying in Gaza
In the latest news from the war in Palestine, a dozen Israeli commandos entered the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin...
Name names of doctors who tortured Gimto detainees, say experts
The issue of participation in torture by CIA doctors, nurses, psychologists during the Bush Administration’s war on terrorism is still alive. In a Viewpoint article...
War and peace: Israeli physicians treating Palestinian patients
In the midst of the bitter war between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza, there is a ray of humanitarian light. In a...
Italy grants citizenship to a terminally ill baby after UK doctors refused to keep her on life support
Italy has granted citizenship to an 8-month-old British baby, Indi Gregory, who is suffering from a serious and probably terminal mitochondrial disease. A judge in...
How should doctors react to the war in Gaza?
What are the responsibilities of physicians in the Israel-Hamas war? Joel Zivot, an associate professor of anesthesiology/surgery at Emory University and a senior fellow at...
New professional standards are weaponizing ‘kindness’, say some UK doctors
The General Medical Council, the regulatory body for doctors in the UK, recently updated its guidelines for professional behaviour, “Good medical practice”. Most news reports...
Medical malpractice is hard to police in India
Good luck if you sue a doctor for medical malpractice in India. According to the BMJ, there are about 5.2 million cases each year –...
Nature’s foray into politics may have backfired
In the 2020 election, a swag of high-profile science journals, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine, endorsed Joe Biden...
Romanian doctors harvested pacemakers from dead patients – and reused them
An occasional reminder that doctors are not exempt from participating in dark and dodgy get-rich-quick schemes might not go astray. The latest comes from Romania,...
Nurses: the most trusted professionals
For the 21st year in a row, nurses have come first in Gallup’s ranking of the most trusted professions in America. Seventy-nine percent of people...