BMA will review guidelines on PVS

Will diffusion tensor imaging assess rewiring in PVS' brains?

"Going Smoke Free" – BMA booklet review

Going smoke-free 1 from the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians presents a well thought out and documented approach to the " medical case " for establishing smoke-free environments at home, work, and in public areas. It addresses the medical evidence and present a convincing argument in favor of smoke-free policy. The authors conclude from their information that enacting "...

Imam Khomeini on God’s Will

The problem of Divine Will has been discussed in detail by Muslim philosophers, theologians and usuliun. Imam Khomeini with regard to the importance of the problem tried to study it analytically. His problems in the field can be referred to as: can the attribute of will be known as existential perfects?  Does Divine Will, while being simple and the same as Divine Essence, is the most perfect ...

Turning the BMA into print.

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Pulmonary embolism guidelines: will they work?

wo years ago several members of the British Thoracic Society independently suggested that, in the light of recent publications, the Standards of Care Committee should update their 1997 advice on suspected acute pulmonary embolism (PE). This issue of Thorax contains the results of this endeavour, with evidence sufficiently robust now to allow these to be called guidelines (see pp 470–83). Those ...