OBJECTIVE To describe the socio-demographic along with the medico-legal characteristics of rape victims reporting to a female police station of Lahore. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Female Police Station in Shadman, Lahore, from, June 1995 to January 2009. METHODOLOGY A total of 74 cases of alleged rape victims were identified while reviewing all available ...

The advent of new imaging techniques is broadening our understanding of the major psychiatric illnesses. The increased knowledge of brain function will have consequences for the expert medical witness who has to give evidence in court. Both the insanity defence and the defence of automatism depend on disorders of the mind. Psychiatry is now able in many cases to produce evidence that these are ...

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On January 15, 2009, the U.S. Justice Department posted a notice on its website that Eli Lilly and Company had agreed to pay a criminal fine of $515 million, the largest such fine ever paid in a health care case, to resolve allegations that the company had promoted olanzapine (Zyprexa) for uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).1 The indications approved by the FDA for...