As Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients and research advocates, we remain hopeful that the whirlwind of research and translational studies which flood the pages of journals around the world will result in treatments that significantly improve quality of life for people with PD within our lifetime. While the Parkinson’s community continues to wait, however, we must […]
Category: From the archive
Rob Hendry: Gross negligence manslaughter does not exist in Scotland—is it time to move English law towards the Scottish position?
Recent high profile cases against doctors have brought the offence of gross negligence manslaughter (GNM) into sharp focus and created an unprecedented level of debate and fear across the profession. In Scotland the offence does not exist—so what is the comparable offence in Scotland and is it better suited to determining the culpability of a […]
Benjamin Mazer: The dog whistle medicine of the anti-vaccine movement
The vaccine “debate” is the art of not talking about what we are talking about […]