Medical abortions more common than surgery for first time in 2014 in England and Wales

BMJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 350 (jun09 13) ◽  
pp. h3177-h3177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Kmietowicz
Keyword(s):  
England And Wales ◽  
First Time

Outlawing incitement to religious hatred—a British perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cumper
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
British Perspective ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe recent enactment of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it (for the first time) unlawful to incite hatred on religious grounds in England and Wales. This legislation has however been attacked by a number of Muslims on the basis that it is too rigidly drawn, and that the scope of the offence of incitement to religious hatred is narrower than comparable legislation governing incitement to racial hatred. In critically analysing the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, this article makes particular reference to the recent Islamic Council of Victoria case in Australia on religious vili cation and hate speech which, it is suggested, provides a salutary lesson to those who would seek to expand the remit of the Act. It is argued that the Racial and Religious Hatred Act is not merely a symbolically important measure, but is also a fair and workable compromise which protects faith groups from incitement to religious hatred without placing excessive curbs on free speech.

scholarly journals Emergence of high-level azithromycin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in England and Wales

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
S A Chisholm ◽  
C Ison
Keyword(s):  
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae ◽  
Sequence Type ◽  
Surveillance Programme ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
High Level ◽  
First Time ◽  
Azithromycin Resistance

The Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme (GRASP) in England and Wales has monitored azithromycin resistance since 2001. In 2007, high-level azithromycin resistance (MICs >256 mg/L) was identified for the first time in six isolates, all of which were the same sequence type (ST 649).

scholarly journals Occupation Mortalities

1911 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-86
Author(s):  
James Craufurd Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
England And Wales ◽  
Registrar General ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time

Mr. President,—It is in response to your invitation that I venture to submit to this Faculty a paper on the Influence of Occupation on Mortality. I have no fresh statistical observations to lay before you, but the task I have set myself is to elaborate the observations set out in the Supplement to the Registrar-General of England and Wales' Sixty-fifth Report, part II., a report which was published early this year. That report may rightly be described as the most important contribution to our knowledge of the subject which has yet been published, and it is thanks to the excellent tabulation of facts in it that I am able to deal further with them.Before asking your attention to the subject proper of my paper, an examination of the results of the recent English study, I desire briefly to describe previous statistical observations on the subject, to indicate to you some of the difficulties and limitations in drawing satisfactory conclusions from these studies, and to explain the methods which have previously been used to overcome these difficulties, and methods which I now use for the first time.

Schizophrenia Following Pre-natal Exposure to Influenza Epidemics Between 1939 and 1960

1992 ◽  
Vol 160 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pak C. Sham ◽  
Eadbhard O'Callaghan ◽  
Noriyoshi Takei ◽  
Graham K. Murray ◽  
Edward H. Hare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viral Infection ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Third ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the relationship between the dates of births of schizophrenic patients admitted to hospitals for the first time in England and Wales between 1970 and 1979, and the occurrence of influenza epidemics between 1939 and 1960. Our results indicate that exposure to influenza epidemics between the third and seventh month of gestation is associated with schizophrenia in adult life. The hypothesis that maternal viral infection is an important cause of schizophrenia can explain many aspects of the enigmatic epidemiology of the condition.

scholarly journals Larval gryporhynchid tapeworms (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) of British freshwater fish, with a description of the pathology caused by Paradilepis scolecina

2011 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.F. Williams ◽  
A.J. Reading ◽  
T. Scholz ◽  
A.P. Shinn
Keyword(s):  
Freshwater Fish ◽  
Inflammatory Responses ◽  
Pathological Changes ◽  
Tinca Tinca ◽  
Hepatic Parenchyma ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
First Time ◽  
Host Tissues ◽  
Tissue Digestion

AbstractLarvae of the cyclophyllidean tapeworms Paradilepis scolecina (Rudolphi, 1819), Neogryporhynchus cheilancristrotus (Wedl, 1855) and Valipora campylancristrota (Wedl, 1855), are described from British freshwater fish. The morphometrics of the rostellar hooks, infection characteristics and host ranges of these parasites from fisheries in England and Wales are presented. Difficulties in the detection, handling and identification of these tapeworms are highlighted, and may in part explain the paucity of records from Britain. Tissue digestion was shown to be a useful technique for the examination of these parasites, providing clear and consistent preparations of the rostellar hooks for measurement. The pathological changes caused by P. scolecina to the liver of wild tench, Tinca tinca, are detailed for the first time. Tapeworms located in the hepatic parenchyma and pancreatic tissues caused little pathological damage and invoked only mild inflammatory responses. The small size of these tapeworms and their encapsulation within host tissues appear to limit the severity of pathology, compared with parasites that insert their rostellum during attachment.

scholarly journals Surgical harm, consent, and English criminal law: When should ‘bad-apple’ surgeons be prosecuted?

2021 ◽  
pp. 096853322110570
Author(s):  
Alexandra Mullock
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Criminal Matter ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Valid Consent ◽  
First Time

This article examines the legal principles determining when surgical harm becomes a criminal matter. In England and Wales, and other common law jurisdictions, the criminal law has predominantly concerned itself with fatal medical misconduct via the offence of gross negligence manslaughter. The convictions of two surgeons in 2017 (Ian Paterson and Simon Bramhall), for offences against the person, suggests that police and prosecutors have, for the first time, become willing to prosecute surgeons for non-fatal surgical harm. Understanding when non-fatal surgical harm should be treated as a criminal matter is, however, a complex issue. The medical exception to the criminal law legitimizes consensual and reasonable surgical harm. Thus, the question of what is reasonable and what constitutes valid consent is key to determining the parameters of lawful surgery; however, the principles are perplexing and insofar as they may be agreed and understood, they are arguably unsatisfactory. After examining the cases involving serious surgical harm and analysing the doctrines applied, this article argues for a more patient-centred approach. The focus should be on the nature of the harm to the victim, the behaviour of the dangerous surgeon and whether a violation has occurred, rather than on traditional professional assessments, which are unduly deferential to the medical profession.

Suicide preceded by murder: the epidemiology of homicide–suicide in England and Wales 1988–92

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIAN BARRACLOUGH ◽  
E. CLARE HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Death Certificates ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Fatal Injury ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Child Deaths ◽  
Car Exhaust ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
First Time ◽  
Family Matter

Background. We describe for the first time the epidemiology of homicide–suicide incidents for England and Wales. Previous descriptions have been of incidents in London (1946–62) and Yorkshire and Humberside (1975–1992).Methods. Death certificates were obtained for all who died in homicide–suicide incidents in England and Wales (1988–1992) that were reported by the police to the Home Office. Incidents were included in the analysis if the interval between death or fatal injury of victim and suspect was 3 or fewer days.Results. Three hundred and twenty-seven people died in 144 incidents (180 victims and 147 suspects). Eighty per cent of incidents had one victim and one suspect. Three incidents were also suicide pacts between two suspects killing their children. Eighty-eight per cent of incidents exclusively involved members of the same family, 9% acquaintances or strangers, and 3% both family and acquaintances or strangers. Seventy-five per cent of victims were female, 85% of suspects male. The victims of male suspects were predominantly their womenfolk, past and present, and their children, and of female suspects their young children. Car exhaust and firearms accounted for 40% of victim and 50% of suspect deaths. Of all homicides during 1988–1992, 3% of male, 11% of female and 19% of child deaths occurred in homicide–suicide incidents. Similarly, of all suicides, 0·8% of male and 0·4% of female deaths occurred in homicide–suicide incidents.Conclusions. Homicide–suicide in England and Wales is mostly ‘a family matter’, men of predominantly lower social class killing their kin, and pre-menopausal mothers their young children, before they kill themselves. A few men kill strangers during a crime and then themselves.

THE FIRST EXTERNAL AUDITORS OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, 1866

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Spraakman
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
External Audit ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
External Auditors ◽  
External Auditor ◽  
First Time ◽  
Chartered Accountants ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

At the request of shareholders, the Hudson's Bay Company had its financial statements audited for the first time in 1866. Two external auditors were hired, one for the shareholders and one for management. Three inter-related forces led to this decision: (1) most importantly, the company's shareholders demanded audited financial statements, (2) there was emerging in London at the time the capacity and willingness among London accountants to provide external audit services, and (3) the British Parliament passed various acts that required financial statements of companies in other industries to be audited. After a few years, only the management's external auditor was retained. He subsequently influenced the company's development of management accounting. In addition, the company's early external auditors were influential in the development of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Dissecting the decline of hepatitis C in first-time donors in England and Wales

Vox Sanguinis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Reynolds ◽  
K. L. Davison ◽  
N. Andrews ◽  
P. Patel ◽  
A. Kitchen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
First Time
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