Background: Implantation of vascular access devices is of great importance in critically ill patients or those vulnerable to clinical worsening. The aim of this study was to identify the complications of implantation of vascular access leading to complaints from patients, in the forensic medicine commissions of Tehran. Methods: The present descriptive-cross sectional study was performed on all...

Abstract The article critically considers the role of NGOs at US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On basis observation pre-trial hearings for case against Khalid Sheik Mohammed et al.—those allegedly responsible September 11 attacks—the analyses as trial monitors military commissions set up to deal with ‘alien unprivileged enemy belligerents’. In spite continued efforts by human rights and i...

Opened in November 2019, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries showcases four major new art commissions at the Science Museum, London. This article brings artistic and curatorial voices to reflect on their meaning, as Curator of Art Collections, Katy Barrett, talks with artists Eleanor Crook, Marc Quinn, Sophie Nielsen Rolf Knudsen Studio Roso. They consider process producing works, what they were i...

The use of commissions of audit as vehicles to drive privatisation policy agendas in areas such as health service delivery has become popular with conservative federal and State governments. Such commissions have characteristically been established early in the terms of such governments with carefully planned terms of reference and membership. The policy directions they advocate, unlike electio...