in this survey, 600 autopsy files from legal medicine center were reviewed to find out the cause of death in traumatic patients. the results are presented by age, gender, type of trauma and cause of death. the most common type of trauma is vehicle accidents and 70% of subjects are males. trauma resulting in death is most common ing third decade of life

In Italy, the use of non conventional medicines (NCMs) is spreading among people as in the rest of Europe. Sales of alternative remedies are growing, and likewise the number of medical doctors (MDs) who practise NCM/complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). However, in Italy as in other countries of the European Union, at the present time the juridical/legal status of NCM/CAM is not well es...

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (1) came to be. As Dr Bhatkar told you, that is why, if you put ‘Traditional Knowledge Digital Library’ into Google, you are now one of 30 million plus hits. That is the magnitude of the transformation that has taken place. What we have done is to take Ayurvedic text, Sanskrit text and converted them into English, codi...

*Consultant Paediatrician, A-D7, Devi Marg, Bani Park, Jaipur 302016; **Founder President, Indian Med-legal and Ethics Association, Amravati Received: 22.06.2011; Revised: 19.01.2012; Re-revised: 24.09.2013; Accepted: 27.09.2013 S back c lar i f icat ion was sought from the Medico-legal Group of Indian Academy of Paediatrics that it has observed Bonnisan liquid and Liv-52 preparations are being...

Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW. Ian H Kerridge, BMed(Hons), MPhil, FRACP, FRCPA, Associate Professor of Bioethics, and Director; John R McPhee, BCom(Hons)(LegStud), Honorary Associate in Health Law. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Ian H Kerridge, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, ...

OBJECTIVES To examine doctors' level of knowledge of the law on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack decision-making capacity, and factors associated with a higher level of knowledge. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Postal survey of all specialists in emergency medicine, geriatric medicine, intensive care, medical oncology, palliative medicine, renal med...

Different initiatives have been implemented in the Professionalism Program of the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine to develop in the students a culture of professionalism and to promote moral, ethical, altruistic, and humanistic values. The Program was incorporated into the curriculum with the fusion of medical ethics, public health, legal medicine, and the history of medicine. The principa...

By Fernando Testai MD PhD (Dr. Testai of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago received research grants from Dart NeuroScience, the NIH, and the American Heart Association and consulting fees from Medico-legal Consulting.) Vinny Sharma DO (Dr. Sharma of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.) Originally ...