Needless extractions?

Needless contraception.

Breaking the web of needless disability.

BACKGROUND It is well established that environmental factors can have impact upon an injured person's recovery and return-to-work outcomes. To date, there has been no cohesive model to provide theoretical understanding of the way in which these divergent factors combine to create disability behaviours. OBJECT Development of a conceptual model for understanding the development of disability be...

Complications of Extractions

The many risks and considerations involved when performing an extraction can present a particular challenge to the dental professional, especially regarding management of bleeding. Many factors can increase the potential difficulty of an extraction, including difficult root morphology and some inflammatory disorders, but with a thorough medical history, a complete pre-operative examination, and...

Meningitis vaccination programme prompts needless scare

On 27 August The Observer newspaper in the UK published no less than four articles on allegedly serious dangers associated with the serogroup C meningococcal conjugate vaccine, introduced for routine use in this country about a year ago. First, a page one banner headline (“Meningitis jab deaths ‘cover-up’’’) heralded a report that at least 11 young people had died after receiving the new vaccin...

Needless restrictions imposed on cardiac patients.

z /[ANY physicians appear to be too strict and particular in the rules of diet and regimen, which they deliver as proper to be observed by all who are solicitous either to preserve or recover their health. The too anxious attention to these rules hath often hurt those who are well, and added unnecessarily to the distresses of the sick."' These are the opening sentences of William Heberden's Com...