News, Three relatives of a severely disabled boy have been convicted of assaulting hospital staff and causing actual bodily harm after they saved the boy's life. David Glass, aged 13, was admitted to St Mary's hospital in Portsmouth, UK, in October 1998 suffering from a chest infection. The ho...

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News, Three relatives of a severely disabled boy have been convicted of assaulting hospital staff and causing actual bodily harm after they saved the boy's life. David Glass, aged 13, was admitted to St Mary's hospital in Portsmouth, UK, in October 1998 suffering from a chest infection. The hospit...

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News, The highest court in France has halted the distribution of morning-after pills to schoolgirls. Following campaigns by Catholic groups, the State Council ruled that Ségolène Royal, the former Education Minister, had been wrong to make the NorLevo morning-after pill freely available in seconda...

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News, The highest court in France has halted the distribution of morning-after pills to schoolgirls. Following campaigns by Catholic groups, the State Council ruled that Ségolène Royal, the former Education Minister, had been wrong to make the NorLevo morning-after pill freely available in sec...

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News, Government figures released on 29 June indicated that the number of teenagers having abortions in Scotland fell between 1990 and 1998, though not by as much as the number of teenage pregnancies. In 1998, just over 10,000 babies were born to girls aged 13 to 19 in Scotland, nearly 1,500 f...

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News, Government figures released on 29 June indicated that the number of teenagers having abortions in Scotland fell between 1990 and 1998, though not by as much as the number of teenage pregnancies. In 1998, just over 10,000 babies were born to girls aged 13 to 19 in Scotland, nearly 1,500 fewer...

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News, The US Supreme Court has struck down Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban by five votes to four. The court's majority opinion accepted Dr LeRoy Carhart's argument that the ban was so broad that it could have criminalized the more common dilation and evacuation procedure, in which the arm or...

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News, The US Supreme Court has struck down Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban by five votes to four. The court's majority opinion accepted Dr LeRoy Carhart's argument that the ban was so broad that it could have criminalized the more common dilation and evacuation procedure, in which the ar...

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News, Doctors at the British Medical Association's annual conference have referred to their medical ethics committee the proposal to require the written consent of patients before a decision is made not to resuscitate them. Dr Alex Freeman, a general practitioner from Southampton, told the con...

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News, Doctors at the British Medical Association's annual conference have referred to their medical ethics committee the proposal to require the written consent of patients before a decision is made not to resuscitate them. Dr Alex Freeman, a general practitioner from Southampton, told the confere...

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News, The British Medical Association at its annual meeting in London will today (27 June) consider a motion which would require all doctors to obtain the explicit consent of a patient before making the decision not to resuscitate. Other motions put forward for debate at the conference include cal...

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News, The British Medical Association at its annual meeting in London will today (27 June) consider a motion which would require all doctors to obtain the explicit consent of a patient before making the decision not to resuscitate. Other motions put forward for debate at the conference include...

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News, Scientists have completed the first draft of the human genetic code. The White House said yesterday that President Clinton would announce the news in the US today and a similar announcement will be made in London. Sir Robert May, the British government's chief scientific advisor, said: "...

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News, Scientists have completed the first draft of the human genetic code. The White House said yesterday that President Clinton would announce the news in the US today and a similar announcement will be made in London. Sir Robert May, the British government's chief scientific advisor, said: "The ...

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News, A British survey has found that four in 10 girls have taken the morning-after pill by the age of 19. Dr Roger Ingham, director of the centre for sexual health research at Southampton University, England, conducted his research among more than 1,000 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 for Chann...

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News, A British survey has found that four in 10 girls have taken the morning-after pill by the age of 19. Dr Roger Ingham, director of the centre for sexual health research at Southampton University, England, conducted his research among more than 1,000 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 for C...

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News, A new report in the UK has claimed that a quarter of all girls born in 1974 lost their virginity before the age of 16, compared with only one percent born in the 1930s and five percent born in the 1950s. Bev Botting and Karen Dunnell, two contributors to the report published by the Offic...

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News, A new report in the UK has claimed that a quarter of all girls born in 1974 lost their virginity before the age of 16, compared with only one percent born in the 1930s and five percent born in the 1950s. Bev Botting and Karen Dunnell, two contributors to the report published by the Office fo...

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News, The Northern Ireland legislative assembly has overwhelmingly expressed its opposition to abortion. Mrs Betty Gibson, chairwoman of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in Northern Ireland, said that a clear message had been sent to the British government that "they will not succ...

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News, The Northern Ireland legislative assembly has overwhelmingly expressed its opposition to abortion. Mrs Betty Gibson, chairwoman of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in Northern Ireland, said that a clear message had been sent to the British government that "they will not ...

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