In his December 2014 interview with Michelle Dubert-Bellrichard, Stephen Lovegrove shares his story coming to Winthrop as an "out" student recently kicked out of a religious college. Lovegrove details his perception of the...
Addressing the audience on media coverage of the political campaign, Chuck Todd said comedian Stephen Colbert is making a mockery of the system. The process is a mess, Todd said, but he wondered if Colbert is trying to influence...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a surge in need for alternative routes of administration of drugs for end of life and palliative care, particularly in community settings. Transmucosal routes include...
When the following monograph first appeared, as a thesis successfully defended at the Toronto School of Theology in 1968, very little work had been done on Schleiermacher’s sermons. Ian Wishart produced one of the most careful...
When the following monograph first appeared, as a thesis successfully defended at the Toronto School of Theology in 1968, very little work had been done on Schleiermacher’s sermons. Ian Wishart produced one of the most careful...
Stephen J. Costello holds a BA, MA, and PhD in philosophy. He has addressed two parliaments—Stormont on human rights and the European Parliament in Brussels on mental health. He has twenty-five years’ experience giving seminars...
Trustees unanimously approved a resolution on June 19 thanking Acting President Debra Boyd for leading the institution during a year of transition. Also at the meeting, trustees approved a resolution to thank the 56-member...
Dipender Gill and Stephen Burgess discuss the accompanying study by James Yarmolinsky and colleagues investigating the associations between genetically-proxied inhibition of antihypertensive drug targets and risk of common...
In their letter to the Editor in this issue, Kolstoe and Carpenter challenge a core aspect of our recently published case study of research approvals [BMC Medical Ethics 20:7] by arguing that we conflate research ethics with...
Sir,
Recent years have seen a decline in applications
for core surgical training.1 In February
2019, the Cambridge University Surgical
Society investigated factors deterring
clinical students from pursuing a surgical
career with...
There is now a golden opportunity for community nurses to work closely together with general practitioner (GP) colleagues in reviewing and improving end of life care. The new NHS England (2019a) GP contract has attached...
OBJECTIVE: Life-limiting neuromuscular disease, such as some of the muscular dystrophies, are often diagnosed in early childhood: when death comes, commonly in the second or third decade of life, patients rarely have advance...
Syringe drivers are widely used in palliative care, and this article reviews the challenges and outstanding questions associated with their use. Misperceptions among the lay public and some health professionals can be addressed...
Background and objectives: Population ageing has rapidly increased the number of people requiring end-of-life care across the globe. Governments have responded by promoting end-of-life in the community. Partly as a consequence...
Data from the Office for National Statistics show that covid-19 was responsible for most of the 76 000 excess deaths during 2020 in England and Wales, with only around 2000 attributable to other causes. The
number of deaths from...