Iranian doctors' conviction could damage public health

Doctors working within public health services.

Clare Gerada 1 , writing in the BMJ, recently stated that the prevailing culture among NHS staff is one of fear. This negativity may be transmitted to the patient who is already likely to be anxious and scared. There is a sense that humanity has been downsized or removed from hospital systems. In this setting it is difficult for patients to have their emotional needs met. Put simply, if health ...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

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Peoples living in the 26 countries across the meningeal belt of Sub-Saharan Africa that stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia suffer from repeated epidemics of meningococcal disease. Literatures showed that epidemic meningococcal disease has been present in the stated region for more than 100 years. Though over 80% of cases of the African epidemics are associated with Neisseria meningitides serogr...

Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction

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Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right.

Editorials Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right In a recent case of DNA evidence the probability of a chance match was quoted as 20 million to one. The accurate statement that the defendant or two other unknown people in the United Kingdom could have committed the offence is much less impressive. Other evidence was overwhelming, but this may ...