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The experiences described by Erin MacCabe and Gerald Herman - Universities should have a statutory duty of care so that they cannot look the other way when students are being harmed - are deeply concerning.

No student should feel unable to report sexual harassment and sexual misconduct or believe that speaking up cou...


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This account of the health crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region makes grim reading and is a reminder that medical institutions have a moral and ethical duty to speak out on such matters. Unfortunately, in relation to Gaza many of them have been reluctant to do so (1), some perhaps after receiving fierce pushback (2,3) fo...


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Olivier and van Doorn-Khosrovani perform a valuable service in reminding us how readily evidentiary standards yield to pressure, and two of their planks are, to my mind, unanswerable. The conflict-of-interest argument is the strongest; that protracted litigation over experts' competing interests was needed to oblige the EU to...


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As well as the health establishment being prepared for a right-wing populist government, voters need to understand just what is on offer from Reform UK in terms of future health care, should it come to form the next government. Written policy is scanty and the 2024 contract with the public (1) may now be out of date, but certa...


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As a first year medical student in a new medical school, I was with a group of others for a teaching session on examination of the abdomen. The consultant surgeon in charge took a middle-aged male patient from the ward into a side room and asked him to remove his pyjama top. It was clear from the dirt on his chest that he rare...


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