Macchiarini guilty of misconduct, but whistleblowers share blame, new Karolinska Institute verdict finds

Punishing the insane: the verdict of guilty but mentally ill.

The defense of not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) has been a part of English jurisprudence at least since the reign of King Aethelred in the 10th century and today is an important aspect of American law. Some form of insanity defense appears to be an element of due process. Those states that have successfully abolished the insanity defense provide for introduction of psychiatric testimony ...

Court finds Berk not guilty , rebuffs proctor

by Ian Davidson and Bruce Davies George R. Brown, eminent engineer and retired chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees, died Sa turday following a brief illness at age 84. B r o w n ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n s to i n d u s t r y , e d u c a t i o n a n d p h i l a n t h r o p y a r e a b u n d a n t . Brown entered Rice in 1917 with the intention of becoming a doctor , but he left the followin...

Verdict in the smooth muscle KATP channel case: guilty of blood pressure control but innocent of sudden death phenotype.

Whistleblowers.

T he term whistleblower comes from the phrase ‘‘blow the whistle’’, which refers to a whistle being blown by a policeman or a referee to indicate an activity that is illegal or a foul [1]. Recently, whistleblowers have disseminated valuable information to the community through new media outlets, such as WikiLeaks. In medicine, whistleblowers serve to shed light on side-effects of drugs and, occ...

Metformin causing vitamin B12 deficiency: a guilty verdict without sufficient evidence.

Metformin causing vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency has become a traditional myth in medical literature (1,2). But what evidence do we have? The possibility to measure holotranscobalamin (active B12) and the metabolic marker, methylmalonic acid (MMA), has changed the practice of diagnosing B12 deficiency in recent years. We have learned that not all low plasma B12 means a “deficiency” and not all hi...