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Dr Peter Saunders2011-02-05 10:10:102024-01-22 09:21:09Senior neonatologist brands official report on fetal awareness as ‘Emperor’s new clothes’
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-02-05 10:10:102024-01-22 09:21:09Senior neonatologist brands official report on fetal awareness as ‘Emperor’s new clothes’
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-02-03 10:14:262024-01-22 09:21:09Morning-after pills don’t cut teen pregnancy rates
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Dr Vicky Lavy2011-02-02 00:01:192024-01-22 09:20:46CMF members blog from Haiti
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-01-26 11:52:002024-01-22 09:21:08Euthanasia bills fall at first hurdle
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-19 13:43:172024-01-22 09:19:28The ‘ultrasound’ Jesus reminds us of the meaning of the incarnation
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-18 10:21:592024-01-22 09:19:25How common is abortion to save the life of the mother?
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-18 09:48:542024-01-22 09:19:27A new exhibition touring the United States is highlighting lessons to be learned from the Nazi doctors
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-17 02:32:482024-01-22 09:19:26Two letters to the Times regarding Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-14 15:47:392024-01-22 09:19:26Former Lord Chancellor misrepresents law on assisted suicide in national newspaper
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Steve Fouch2010-12-13 14:07:532024-01-22 09:21:08ICMDA HIV Initiative 2010 Dignity and Right to Health Awards
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-12 12:23:042024-01-22 09:19:25More knowledge of fetal development leads to new US laws making late abortion illegal
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-12 09:39:482024-01-22 09:19:24Chile’s president says country’s respect for life mandated great efforts to save lives of Chilean miners
Christians must speak out about the Marris Bill on assisted suicide
Labour MP Rob Marris wants to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales. His Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill would allowmentally competent adults (>18) judged to have less than six months to live to receive help to kill themselves once given approval by two doctors and a High Court judge. Marris’s Bill is essentially […]
Putting faith in global healthcare
I have long argued on this blog that there needs to be a greater engagement with faith based organisations and faith communities in health care planning and delivery in the UK and around the world. It is always encouraging when the wider medical community says the same thing back to you! Yesterday, the Lancet […]
The BMA: A trade union with integrity?
Can the British Medical Association (BMA) be trusted to ‘maintain the honour and interests of the medical profession?’ Or is the BMA another big organisation without full accountability, making recommendations ostensibly on behalf of its members whilst failing to operate democratically? The BMA published its parliamentary brief on 24 February regarding mitochondrial replacement techniques, otherwise […]
Abortion and preterm births: what women need to know but are not told
Prematurity – a birth prior to 37 weeks gestational age – has recently been described as: ‘the biggest challenge in western obstetrics, with severe neonatal morbidity (and a need for intensive care treatment for infant respiratory distress syndrome, feeding problems, neonatal jaundice and cerebral palsy) and infant mortality.’ In the UK 7.8% of babies […]
Candour in the NHS: Speaking the truth in love?
We would all want a good degree of honesty from anyone caring for us or treating us for a medical condition. Trust is one of the essential components of a good nurse/patient or doctor/patient relationship. One of the issues Robert Francis exposed in his reports into the Mid-Staff Scandal was that there was a culture […]
Nurses caught up in immigration battle
The annual congress of the Royal College of Nursing opened on Sunday, and it began with a warning. New UK government immigration rules, that requires that people gaining a work visa to the UK will need to be earning in excess of £35,000 after five years, will mean most migrant nurses from outside of the […]
Morning-after pill is now available to all girls UNDER the age of consent
News that the morning-after pill, ellaOne (which can be effective up to five days after sex), is now available for use by any woman of reproductive age in Europe, without parental consent, from pharmacies everywhere, is – to put it mildly – ill-advised. To put it less mildly, it is an ill-conceived knee-jerk response to Britain’s […]
Elisabeth Elliot enters ‘the gates of splendor’
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” ― Jim Elliot When I was 11 my father became seriously ill and I was parceled out to stay with relatives. I found myself sharing a farm worker’s hut: bare floorboards, a rough iron-framed bed, and certainly […]
How safe is the school cancer vaccination for young girls?
New reports (including on the front page of the Independent) are adding to the evolving story of inadequate research on a vaccine that almost every teenage girl in the UK will have been given since 2008. News that (apparently) thousands of young girls have been enduring various debilitating illnesses after taking the routine injection […]
The new ethical frontier: DIY eugenics
The single most controversial development in biology in 2015 is a relatively cheap, easily manipulated technology for modifying the human genome. Called Crispr, this tool allows scientists to “edit” the genome by deleting or adding DNA sequences. In just a couple of years, frenetic activity in labs around the world has taught scientists how to […]
Scottish Assisted Suicide Bill gets short shrift from MSPs
Patrick Harvie’s Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill has been defeated today in a free vote by 82 votes to 36 in the Scottish Parliament. The MSP took over the bill following the death of Margo Macdonald MSP in April 2014. It was proposing an ‘Oregon type system’ with trained ‘licensed facilitators’ but with a wide scope for mentally competent […]
Thirteen ‘solutions’ to mitochondrial disease assessed
Mitochondrial disorders are passed on through a mother’s mitochondrial DNA. They are progressive and can be very disabling but are thankfully relatively rare. They can cause stillbirth, death in babies and children, or may onset with severe effects in adulthood, such as blindness or heart failure. As there is currently no treatment for most of […]