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BMA update on ARM homosexuality debate ( 28/7/2010)

Three weeks after the BMA ARM, BMA News (Saturday July 24 2010, p8) carried a letter about the homosexuality debate on Motion 460. There was an interesting response from the BMA ethics...
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Steve Fouch blogs on way back from ICMDA World Congress ( 9/7/2010)

After three full days of meetings, we are now on the final, fourth day of the Congress and preparing to fly home. Over 700 doctors, medical students and nurses from over fifty nations have been...
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Vicky Lavy blogs from Developing Health course ( 8/7/2010)

Developing Health Course 2010

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BMA ARM ethics debate - report ( 1/7/2010)

BMA ARM 2010 – Ethics Debate 1 July

The ethics debate on the last morning of the BMA's 2010 Annual Representative Meeting began...
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Euthanasia - CNK's news update ( 1/7/2010)

CMF is a founder member of the Care Not Killing Alliance and their latest newsletter gives a wide-ranging...
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Another non-prosecution for assisting suicide ( 28/6/2010)

On 25 June the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, announced he did not consider it would be in the public interest to bring a case against former GP Michael Irwin, for assisting in...
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Can the fetus feel pain before 24 weeks' gestation? ( 28/6/2010)

In a report published on 25 June by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, it was claimed that the fetus cannot 'feel' pain before 24 weeks' gestation as nerve connections in the...
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New BMA guidance on assisted suicide ( 22/6/2010)

Formal BMA guidance advises doctors how to...

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Peter Saunders blogs on the Howard Martin case ( 21/6/2010)
http://pjsaunders.blogspot.com/2010/06/case-of-howard-martin-shows-why-we.html
Disability Group launches 'Resistance Campaign' ( 9/6/2010)

On 3 June leading disability rights group Not Dead Yet launched a
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